P. J. Possum

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I like the whole idea of looking at former societies to see what worked for them. It is worth noting that The indigenous peoples of North America also build Long Houses. I like the modular concept - you could add personal units as needed, and even remove them and move them elsewhere.

From time-to-time there have been places where Artist/Artisans have had little shops side-by-side with living spaces in back.

I'm liking this, and will be watching how it goes when built by other builders in different regions.

Ezra Beaton:   Not to mention you would be cold footing across that porch, when it was cold outside. Traditionally the kitchen and the living space were in one space and the bedrooms in the other. So you would have to put on your coat and boots when it was time to cross over for bed.

But wait, what if you closed in the dog trot area and made it into a greenhouse? You could make the roof out of translucent material, and close in the back and front. It would still be a lot cooler than the house, but not like being ripped by a wind straight out of the north pole.

Anne Miller wrote:Dog trot houses served their purpose back when there was no air conditioning.

That roof on that design doesn't offer much for rainwater catchment.

I would like to see a dog trot with passive solar.

Please keep in mind that this is just a rough sketch. I wasn't even paying attention to what I was doing. There is no scale or anything. I just threw it out there for YOU Guys to come up with ideas  - One thought a week is enough for me.
Rainwater catchment is not as big a priority where I live as it is in some parts of the world. We're more the rains weeks at a time and flash flood kind of people. But I guess you could do something like this.

I guess some kind Passive Solar Cooling is possible for a tall narrow building - Of course I could do it, but I'm interested in seeing how YOU would do it.
Passive Solar Cooling of the 'dog trot' porch between the two buildings would be a real magic trick - I would love to see that one.

"Thinking is hard work - humans avoid it whenever possible."

I was reading Tim Flood's post "How To Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis" with some interest. There were quite a few comments, A lot of good points were made and lots of 'Cussing and Discussing' went on. But somewhere in the post Tim mentioned 'Dog-trot' houses; and that stirred the muck in the back of my brain and eventually it made its way to the front of my brain ... And I had a thought! (Yeah, I couldn't believe it ether - I marked the event on the calendar.) The Dog-trot houses were disseminated widely in the South. Both Log Cabin and Frame Structure, they were the preferred dwelling for homesteading new ground. There were a lot of them built.

So what was your thought? you say.    Just hold on, I'm getting to it.... One of the reasons that they were so popular is that they were modular. They had several good qualities - But what I'm interested in here is the modular-ness.
I have had a soft spot in my head for a long time for modular houses. Back many years ago there was kind of a movement toward modular building, but it never really caught on.
One of my gripes about tiny houses today (Now, let me say that I lived in a tiny house for over eleven years, and enjoyed it.) is than so many of them are so cleverly designed, that it makes it almost impossible to add onto them.

So... Anyway I was just sketching, and I wondered "What if you took the Modular ability of the Dog-trot and updated it? (See Attached.)

Here's some leg cramp tablets that I got years ago. The name is Hyland's. Pretty sure I got them at a health supplement store. Notice that they have quinine in them, but I am more suspicious of the drug industry than I am worried about the quinine. I also take aspirin - have taken it all my life and never had any stomach problems.
If I take calcium, or eat or drink dairy before bedtime, I will get a cramp. I think that some cramping is caused by poor blood flow, so anything that promotes blood flow to the effected area should help, like Icy Hot or any one of a number of muscle rubs. That's why the mustard probably works. I think that you should be sure that you are getting enough oxygen as well, by doing breathing exercises and learning to breath properly.

If that don't work, you can always hit yourself on the toe with a hammer.
(It's a scientific fact that if one part of your body is hurting badly enough, you have a tendency to forget about the other part.)