Brad Emery

     So if you want a pop-up camper (I'm still inclined to tents - the real camping shelter) this is defiantly the one to get - here's the link: http://www.habitusliving.com/move/the-opera-camper and here's the article (the link has more pictures to check out).
    
     The award-winning Opera Camper is inspired by a Sydney icon – portable architecture has never looked so good.It seems an odd pairing, but in a workshop just outside of Eindhoven, Netherlands, an Australian icon has been transformed into an exciting piece of movable design.
     The Opera Camper trailer, inspired by the Sydney Opera House, aims to bring a little luxury to the camper trailer experience.
     Designed by Axel Enthoven, the Opera is the result of a number of year research into the unique limitations of portable accommodation – and it seems to have taken as much engineering genius as the Opera House itself!
     The Opera has a long list of features including ‘hot air heating’, teak flooring, ceramic toilet, twin beds (electrically adjustable and easily transformed into one), kitchen sink (of course), onboard boiler for hot water supply, fridge and low-energy LED lighting “from awning to floor” (yes there are uplights!).

     Of course, the most striking feature of the design, the tent roof (or ‘the sails’ as we better know them), is made of exterior canvas and a lightweight frame and stainless steel fittings.
     The camper starts at €24,000 (around $35,000), which is more than your standard hardtop camper, but these design features don’t come cheap. It’s available in a range of colours with various add-ons available.

     While I'm posting links I'll give you my twitter link so you can see what I'm working on any given day; I try to post quick updates as to what I'm working on (they usually increase the later I'm in studio - so if you want some interesting reading . . .) - whoops! I just about forgot to post the link, here you go: twitter.com/brademery7

Have a good week and thanks for reading,
Brad

     As I've mentioned before they're keeping us busy in the Architectural Program here and I apologize for the inconsistency between my posts - I update them as often as I can. It has been brought to my attention that the date stamp on all my posts is the same; I hope I've got it fixed now but I can't change any of my previous dates (and I don't know when I posted them anyway) so hopefully that isn't a problem for anyone.

     Now that we have that taken care of here are some of the pictures I promised you a few weeks ago:

     For anyone curious as to what I'm working on: I sketched a freehand floor plan, two section cuts, and a perspective the first two weeks, and this week (and next week) I'm working on drafting the floor plan, two section cuts, and an oblique view and I'm building a space-volume model of the interior of Danforth Chapel. For anyone wondering a space-volume model is a model of the interior space of the chapel - it was described by the teachers like this: if you filled the inside of the chapel with chocolate (or jello) and let it set up then stripped away the walls, ceiling, and floor the form you'd be left with is the space-volume mold. We do this type of model because the focus of the program in the first year is more on the space created by the architecture than the building itself. All of this is due on Sunday, Sept. 19 so I probably won't be posting until at least then - heck I'll be lucky to sleep until then!
     Hopefully for one of my next posts I'll have some pictures of Danforth Chapel and also some of my work. Cross your fingers but I wouldn't recommend holding your breath (that might not turn out well) and thanks for reading!

Until next time,
Brad