Business is Booming – Shipping Container Homes are Back!

boomer — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:32:55 +0000

The web site design business is booming at Big Boom Design so it’s been tough to break away and work on any other projects. However, I recently jumped back into some Shipping Container Home designs for a few hours. The screen shot to the right is from a 3D modeling program called Rhino. Similar to Google SketchUp but used more for product design and industrial design rather than architecture.

The container home design shown to the right is called The Tetris House due to the overhead resemblance to a Tetris block. It features a pop-top sky light mechanical widows for ventilation. A bank of Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal panels for creating power and heating water. The dining room and living room are lit by a large floor to ceiling window on the front of the house. My favorite aspect about this design is the cut-out in the roof to allow for the adjacent tree to become a part of the home.

Placed on a gravel slab with concrete pillars for support, these shipping containers are adjacently placed to create one large community area inside the house.

Social Media for the (AWI) Architectural Woodwork Institute comes to the Biltmore Estate

boomer — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:56:46 +0000

An Event Update…afterthoughts:
For anyone that wants to start tracking a website without using google analytic you might want to check out Trackle.com or you can link to the google analytics page here.

I also mentioned Hubspot who has a a great online tool called a website grader.

Over the next few weeks I’ll add to this list of after thoughts about todays AWI meeting.

Event Host:
Carolinas Chapter AWI

Location:
Inn on Biltmore Estate
1 Antler Hill Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803 US

When:
Friday, February 26, 9:00AM
Phone: 336-887-0700

Our Speaker:
Boomer Sassmann

Join us once again in beautiful Asheville, NC at the Inn on Biltmore Estate for our Membership Meeting. We have a great program lined up for you!

Social Media . . . could you? should you? would you?

Social Media platforms build buzz, boost business and serve small businesses as low-cost/no-cost marketing tools. Small business owners need to understand how these tools strategically serve and support small business first so they best implement social media strategies to sell products and/or services.

Hand-outs for the day:

Social Media Terminology = http://bigboomdesign.com/AWI/SocialMediaTermsfromWikipedia.pdf

Website Terminology = http://bigboomdesign.com/AWI/WebsiteTerminology.pdf

Social Media Map = http://bigboomdesign.com/AWI/social-media-map.pdf

Woodworker Social Media Links:

Woodworkers on Twitter = http://www.twibes.com/woodworking/twitter-list

Top 49 Woodworking Blogs = http://www.networkedblogs.com/topic/woodworking/

Sawdust Soup = http://www.sawdustsoup.com/group/socialmediaforwoodworkers

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Business is Booming – Shipping Container Homes are Back!

Social Media for the (AWI) Architectural Woodwork Institute comes to the Biltmore Estate

Hand-outs for the day:

Woodworker Social Media Links:

Other relevant links about social media: