The first house we built with the first model IGLEO blocks was this small family house. We made it to see if it would work and to identify what developments were needed with the blocks.
Johan and I started with a small sketch and first placed fixing the wooden floor. Then we built the first floor from blocks, small electricity tubes, wooden beams and iron wire rods. This was the first opportunity to test how to estimate the tension of the rods and the thickness of the horizontal beams. When it looked OK, we fixed the wooden ceiling/floor. The second floor was constructed with a scaffold. After two weeks our first roof panels were lifted to the top. These prefab panels were quite heavy; by far the heaviest part of the building.
THE DESIGN
DIMENSIONS
Exterior volume: 17x16x21 modules (5,1×4,8×6,0 meters)
Interior volume 1st floor: 15x11x9 modules (4,5×3,3×2,7 m)
Interior volume 2nd floor: 12x11x9 modules (3,6×3,3×2,7 m)
Interior size 1st floor: 15×11 modules (4,5×3,3=15m²)
Interior size 2nd floor: 12×11 modules (3,6×3,3=12m²)
Weight: app 2.500 kg naked, app 4.500 kg dressed
AMOUNTS
naked version
walls
modules: 744 pc, 150 blocks
pasbusses: 394
tension bars: 42 pc of 3,0m
joints wall: 176
roof
modules: roof 342 pc,
roof layer: epdm 342 pc, 5,3×5,0 m
BUILDING IN PROGRESS
THE RESULTS
This is Eric Kievit’s version in blue
