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This guide will show you how to take 300 dollars in materials and 5 hours of time to create a home office for a variety of room sizes.
Please keep in mind you will need to modify your workspace to fit within the space you have. It is our hope that this guide is fun and a strong impetus for you to look at things in a different way than you might normally, and that is through the lens of adaptive reuse and critical misuse. This guide 'misuses' hollow core door slabs, not as doors, but desks, shelves, and structure. The doors are an effective material because they are cheap, lightweight, yet strong.
Adaptive reuse and critical misuse both center around the idea of use and more specifically the idea of use in a way that is other than originally intended. The second key element of these two terms is the word use. For us, use, is just as important a factor in design. Many times people
theorize or speculate without ever doing, producing, or implementing the ideas, and that is fine, but for us beyond the ideais the actual implementation of use.
Through the adapting and reusing of an under used available space at home and by critically misusing hollow core door slabs we were able to generate a great work space with multiple long term benefits. We were able to save $20,000.00 a year, create more time with family, reduced our commute to almost nothing, and this was all done for less than $300.00 and completed
in less than 5 hours.
We hope you enjoy.
From the offices of Metropolitan Architecture Practice
http://www.mapractice.com
http://www.criticalmisuse.com
Please keep in mind you will need to modify your workspace to fit within the space you have. It is our hope that this guide is fun and a strong impetus for you to look at things in a different way than you might normally, and that is through the lens of adaptive reuse and critical misuse. This guide 'misuses' hollow core door slabs, not as doors, but desks, shelves, and structure. The doors are an effective material because they are cheap, lightweight, yet strong.
Adaptive reuse and critical misuse both center around the idea of use and more specifically the idea of use in a way that is other than originally intended. The second key element of these two terms is the word use. For us, use, is just as important a factor in design. Many times people
theorize or speculate without ever doing, producing, or implementing the ideas, and that is fine, but for us beyond the ideais the actual implementation of use.
Through the adapting and reusing of an under used available space at home and by critically misusing hollow core door slabs we were able to generate a great work space with multiple long term benefits. We were able to save $20,000.00 a year, create more time with family, reduced our commute to almost nothing, and this was all done for less than $300.00 and completed
in less than 5 hours.
We hope you enjoy.
From the offices of Metropolitan Architecture Practice
http://www.mapractice.com
http://www.criticalmisuse.com
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Signing UpStep 1Anatomy of a Hollow Core Door Slab
Knowing how hollow cores are constructed is important to completing this project.
Hollow core doors are constructed with a wood frame on its edges and a cardboard honeycomb
filling the inside. This is then covered up with thin sheet of veneer on the front and back.
It is important to remember when cutting through a door, the cardboard core will be exposed.
The side that shows the inside of the door should always be hidden or facing a wall so this side is never seen when the office is completed.
Hollow core doors are constructed with a wood frame on its edges and a cardboard honeycomb
filling the inside. This is then covered up with thin sheet of veneer on the front and back.
It is important to remember when cutting through a door, the cardboard core will be exposed.
The side that shows the inside of the door should always be hidden or facing a wall so this side is never seen when the office is completed.
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I tend to stay away from dells , they seem to overheat and break alot
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Dell laptops are the culprit for overheating . My one gets hot quickly