Somethings not right….
You walk in a beautifully decorated room, but it feels cold. You can’t put a finger on it….
Same with one that blows you away…. It is not furniture, or space… but LIGHT!
It is important to design as many rooms as you can with at least 2 walls with windows… one wall is looking like you have one eye covered….2 directions of light, help you focus, get oriented, correct shadows, which corrects colors….
It doesn’t cost more….it just takes thought….!
I first learned of this nugget, from the book by Alexander…
Now I know why I love the 2rd floor, of our house…
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and unsettled by main floor livingroom….
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Maybe this accounts for people today, wanting an open floor plan…it is not the open that is wanted….but light from 2 or 3 sides!!!
Now, how to have the light… but not the open! ??
In some countries, environments…. The ATRIUM fullfils this need.
MeClean building at WHOI did this,
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a treasured garden in the center of a lab space…you were forced to walk on 2 sides of it, to get from here to there… it softened your mind between trips…
Apple too did this, with their colossal ring building
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….adding the light to the offices, and the garden between trips….so great to let the mind release and relax, to unknot the puzzles, and come up with an idea….
The larger the house, the higher percent of rooms will have one wall of windows…this is a problem to fight….Ahearn, fixed this, with his modular smaller segments, connected by passages.
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Conclusion…
5 million dollar houses CAN be junk…. Just because someone got the builder, AIA, buyer to fall like dominoe to a ker fuckled a house….doesnt mean it is right, or good, or the path to emulate….
You as homeowner, must refuse bad design, for yourself, and the next 2 or 3 generations that will have to live there….THIS HOUSE WILL EFFICET THE MENTAL AND PHYSIDCAL LIVES OF THESE PEOPLE….
ARTICLE….FROM TP TO McMansion… wtf?
Better they live in a Tee pee…that at least will not crush their spirit….
House as nomadid shelter..
Dragging your TP..
Or what the Siberians do in Russia.
Then there were
Thursday, April 9, 2020