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11-19-2017, 08:41 PM #101
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11-20-2017, 06:31 AM #102Registered User
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Always loved these. I have a bunch of sketches for 24 and 32 feet cube houses and some day I will build one. I'm sure mine won't leak!
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11-20-2017, 06:51 AM #103
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11-20-2017, 06:52 AM #104User
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11-20-2017, 07:00 AM #105Registered User
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B-bear, check out the movie " Columbus" for rent on i-tunes. The story takes awhile to get interesting, but it's a fictional story about an architects son and his dying dad, and shot in amazing buildings in one small Midwestern town. Maybe acinpdx might like it too, but I don't think anyone/everyone here will. A unique mesh of place with story, at the least.
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11-20-2017, 07:01 AM #106
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11-20-2017, 07:11 AM #107
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11-20-2017, 07:17 AM #108
Nice!
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11-20-2017, 08:58 AM #109
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Maison à Bordeaux, I always loved this house. Koolhaas often collaborates with an engineer named Cecil Balmond. Balmond wrote a fantastic little book called "Informal" where he talks about the design process. There's a whole section devoted to this house. If you like that sort of thing you should pick up a copy.
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11-20-2017, 09:19 AM #110
I missed visiting Habitat 67 while I was in Montreal.
Love unique buildings.
Couple buildings in Manhattan I enjoy passing by.
Both by Frank Gehry.
IAC Building.
8 Spruce Street.
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11-20-2017, 09:45 AM #111
Another favorite of mine, the Sobek House. Werner Sobek is a pretty impressive Architect/Engineer. He built his house in Stuttgart to be incredibly energy efficient. It was also designed such that it could be easily disassembled and removed from the site sometime in the future in a way that would have minimal impact on the environment.
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11-20-2017, 09:53 AM #112Best regards, Terry
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11-20-2017, 10:03 AM #113
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11-20-2017, 10:18 AM #114
Good question, I saw Sobek speak years ago and part of the talk was dedicated to the systems in this house. As I understand it, it's actually off grid, completely powered by solar. Sobek's specialty is glass facades, among other things. He used triple pained windows for the envelope that provide a K value of 0.4 . The big problem was that the house doesn't have any thermal mass. To solve the problem, the floor system involves a modular panel which, if I remember correctly, is full of water. This provides the thermal mass required to take up solar gain during the day and radiate heat off at night. Effectively, it's a radiant floor system...
He wrote a book about the house: https://www.amazon.com/128-Werner-Sobek...
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11-20-2017, 10:32 AM #115Best regards, Terry
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11-20-2017, 10:58 AM #116
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11-20-2017, 11:12 AM #117Banned
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A voyuer's wet dream. I could spend about 3 minutes in a place like that before the lack of privacy drove me insane.
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11-20-2017, 11:14 AM #118
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11-21-2017, 01:45 PM #119
I can waste quite a bit of time on this site looking at homes.
https://www.mansionglobal.com/"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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12-27-2017, 03:47 PM #120
slide into the laundry room/ mud rm FTW
https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/82061124skid luxury
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12-27-2017, 04:35 PM #121
cool stuff. i'm always on the lookout for stuff for the boy
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12-28-2017, 01:07 AM #122
speaking of Frank Gehry, I made it to the Weisman while I was in Minneapolis this fall. There are a bunch of goodies in there considering it is a free museum, including some Rudy Autio. A reminder of the incredibly good ceramics scene we enjoy, and I often take for granted, here in Montana.
We also stopped by this monstrosity while we were in town.
Unfortunately, that trip was pre-smartphone for me but for the architecturally inclined the sculpture gardens at the Walker and especially the Minneapolis Institute of Art are well worth the visit.
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12-28-2017, 07:40 AM #123
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12-28-2017, 11:01 AM #124
Thought this was a cool story.
I think I heard about it on Strange Inheritance.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/all...i#.WkUwtSOZOV4
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12-28-2017, 12:31 PM #125Funky But Chic
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