Thoughts for the "Home Front"

Actually more questions and puzzles than thoughts. Perhaps keep this post for things like that and just update as it develops.

1) Build Out buildings to Live in:
      a) Lean-to concept, minimalist
      b) Sauna (bench would serve as bed, stove, cooking, heating. Would need outhouse brrrrr.
      c) Workshop w/  loft. (ie also tool shed) barn doors, maybe a bit drafty...

2) Build a portion of main building:
      Kitchen, toilet washroom, w/ loft. Two sides cordwood, other two frame, easily taken down, moved, when next part of main building cordwood wall completed. Would easily follow in the bit by bit style more common to eco-building. Roof may be a problem though at the early stage.
      As would how and at what point to build the pad for the foundation. Whether to construct the whole pad, or go step by step?
      
3) Heating came to mind when I was thinking of the pad. The pad and floor would need to be thought out carefully if one wanted to incorporate advanced solar or air flow concepts to the design. Hypercaust came to mind as a possibility, utilizing double glazed windows in the Sun Room to channel hot air through the ceiling, back down a Trombe Wall, and back through the floor to the windows again.
     another idea that came to mind is a Finnish Wood Stove / Oven, it incorporates heat sink storage mass in it's design element, as well as utility for slow release of heat which makes it ideal for baking or slow roast of meat or stews...
     and speaking of cooking, who likes cooking indoors in the summer, how about an outside oven / barbecue made of brick... for that matter, make it part of a forge LOL

4) Water for washing and kitchen also came to mind. Initial thoughts had dwelt on a plastic container, with solar heating to heat the water. Plastic replacing the 50 gallon steel drum. I can see the water system going through several iterations over the course of the life of the project. From primitive, to mechanical, to Sling Shot, as developments in electrical sources advance.

5) Which brings me to Electricity.
    a) None, use candles, oil lamps and fire
    b) Batteries, hand held devices, etc
    c) possibly a gas generator.
    d) Solar Panels, with battery back up storage.
    e) Wind generator, simple system, not mega windmill ;)