cool homes

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[Flounder]

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!

[babybear]

is that the new office you were building on your property?

[zion zig zag]

Shitty phone pic from a creeper drive by, but I've always liked this house in Sun Valley.

[muted]

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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is that the new office you were building on your property?

No, just an image I came across
(research for a garage conversion)

[AlpiNord]

Timber frame

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Nice!

[Buke]

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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.

[nutmegchoi]

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.

[Buke]

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.

[AlpiNord]

.....Werner Sobek is a pretty impressive Architect/Engineer. He built his house in Stuttgart to be incredibly energy efficient.

How is a glass box energy efficient?

Nice!

Thanks.

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I missed visiting Habitat 67 while I was in Montreal.
Love unique buildings.

i always wanted to see that in person

[Buke]

How is a glass box energy efficient?

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...

[AlpiNord]

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...

Even with a moderate thermal conductivity, I'd be surprised if there aren't substantial temperature swings due to solar gain, unless there is an active system to move excess heat quickly into the water mass. Or other form of solar gain control system. Coated glass?

[Alaskan Rover]

Anyother 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.

Not quite my style interior, but sure is light and airey!! And damn, I do love that self-standing bookcase! Way cool!!!

[glademaster]

A voyuer's wet dream. I could spend about 3 minutes in a place like that before the lack of privacy drove me insane.

[wyeaster]

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.

a few units in that first one would be a little unsettling for me

[Timberridge]

I can waste quite a bit of time on this site looking at homes.

https://www.mansionglobal.com/

[babybear]

slide into the laundry room/ mud rm FTW
https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/82061124

[wyeaster]

cool stuff. i'm always on the lookout for stuff for the boy

[ghosthop]

http://cdnassets.hw.net/dims4/GG/e22f74e/2147483647/thumbnail/876x580%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdnassets.hw.net%2F70%2F49%2Fa7a c3190414ea4c0a090118dc57d%2Fb4ecc5eb-ef18-4e04-b2b8-a8999af85eab.jpg[/IMG]

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.

[babybear]

cool stuff. i'm always on the lookout for stuff for the boy

oh yes show him that slide one and give him a high fiver from me pls


cool additions ghosthop-
it's also hilarious to think of all the cool stuff we'd see pre-camera/phone and just had to take the memories lol

[warthog]

Thought this was a cool story.
I think I heard about it on Strange Inheritance.

https://savingplaces.org/stories/all...i#.WkUwtSOZOV4

[iceman]

Thought this was a cool story.
I think I heard about it on Strange Inheritance.

https://savingplaces.org/stories/all...i#.WkUwtSOZOV4

I liked that, thanks. Hadn't heard of Belluschi before.