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[serfdom]

I like the concrete idea, I think. It seems to work well with glass and creates a modern look...but I wouldn't want it to look so "insititutional."

How do you feel about stone and glass?

[CheezyTang]

Xeros Residence...

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/residential/archives/0604RHh-1.asp

[CheezyTang]

cabin from "architectural record"

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/residential/archives/0604RHb-1.asp

[CheezyTang]

this must be the realized project..glass house:

[CheezyTang]

i would not....eom

[CheezyTang]

i hear ya.....

outside~~~"strong like bull"

inside~~~"airy and open"

[CheezyTang]

a link to...another glass house design:



When I built a house for my family, I designed a glass house based on a modular plan of glass cubes 8' by 8' by 8'. Studying the components, our glass house seems extremely simple. Looking at the blueprints, however, our glass house is quite complicated. It's a 5,500-square-foot concrete structure on a one-acre lot; it has a living room, library, five bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths and an attached garage. Inside and out, the design, materials and construction techniques are innovations for glass houses.

http://www.roszakadc.com/glasshouse01.html

[serfdom]

People actually live in that?

[serfdom]

The outside walls would not be made of glass. The outside of the home should be cased in hardened concrete, with electric fences and guards with dogs.

Not really, but the privacy factor is important :) The inner atrium is where the "view" is. I'm thinking 25' x 25'

[CheezyTang]

or the Farnsworth house...

by mies van der rohe:

[serfdom]

Har! It may not even be doable. OR it could be wildly innovative and land you in all those hoidy-toidy trade pubs you guys like to read.

[CheezyTang]

not the same thing...but you...

might be interested in Philip Johnson's "Glass house" in New Canaan, CT



a bit small, no atrium, but hey....its glass!

[CheezyTang]

i will be sticking the round peg...

in the square hole.

LOL

Dan

[serfdom]

Cool! Yeah, I just remember that in my dream the interior walls were mostly glass so you could see throughout the house and into the atrium from wherever you were.

I don't know how you could make them private for sleeping etc. Miniblinds would be tacky, I agree.

Who knows? Maybe I will retain your services to work on my new home! Quite a challenge eh - adding a round room to a house that's a perfect square....

:)

[CheezyTang]

i will work on this. i like it and it sounds very interesting to design.

i may sketch something up for you in the next few days. i teach on wednesday nights, and i have to work some overtime this week coming up at the office job, but I will make some time to take on this challenge.

i will look tonight to see if i can find any links for you to review. i have a good picture of it in my mind right now. if you were a real client, coming into my office, i would completely understand and be so damn excited!

most people don't know what the heck they want, except that they saw their neighbor's house and they want something like it, once they build on a new lot two towns over....lol

mini-blinds....nah.....i am thinking persiana blinds or some other broad blade blind....wood preferably to work with the language of the atrium

[serfdom]

OK Dan, here is your challenge:

I dreamed of a house, years ago. There's a small rock pool in the center atrium, with a waterfall and a garden.

All of the rooms inside open into the atrium. There's a screen over it so bugs and stuff can't get in...in the summer, you can just leave all the sliding doors open.

All of the rooms' interior walls are made of glass, with mini-blinds for privacy.

If you opened all the blinds, you could see through the whole house and out into the atrium.

NOW

In my dream, the house was a perfect square. But for the past year I have dreamed of that round office I told you about earlier. Any thought on how to have both in one?

Do you you have any source material that can help me visualize my dream home?

[serfdom]

Hey cool logo!

[Green_cat]

Thank you...I know this will be interesting...I work in an Architectural office, and have been for bout 15 years...LOL , but I am not an architect. I am a Landscape designer...

butt I am a bad a$$ muddah from anuddah muddah!!!

[CheezyTang]

hey smoke, thanks for stopping by. how this site becomes informative to you in the near future.....

i will try to provide useful and fun info for ya!

[Green_cat]

Kewl...whazzup guys?

[CheezyTang]

A bit of updating in the IBOX...take a look! eom

[serfdom]

Oooh, I like that one. Hadn't seen it B4.

[serfdom]

Thomas House it's called, I guess ------->

[CheezyTang]

Winslow house??

http://architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aa051500b.htm

[CheezyTang]

Robie house...?

http://www.wrightplus.org/robiehouse/robiehouse.html

[CheezyTang]

good night bree..eom

[lady*b]

Nighty Nite, Cheese Whiz.....sincerely, Brie

[CheezyTang]

searching...searching...lol eom

[serfdom]

And there's some bushes in front of it. Does that help?

[CheezyTang]

LoL!...now that's great!

ok, bree it is..

thanks bree.

Dan

[lady*b]

hey- you can call me Bree.

[CheezyTang]

LOL!....eom

[serfdom]

Well then, I don't know the name. It's big, white, and brown lol!

[CheezyTang]

thanks Bridge. eom

[CheezyTang]

Falling water is in...

Bear Run, Pensylvania

cannot be that one, if you are in IL

[lady*b]

Oak Park is gorgeous in parts. Evanston is my absolute favorite suburb though.

Nice board, CT.

G'nite,
Bridget

[serfdom]

Is there one called Water, or Falling Water? That one.

[CheezyTang]

which one? eom

[serfdom]

Of course Dan - Oak Park is an interesting suburb. My cousin lives right down the street from one of the FLW homes...

[CheezyTang]

oh...ya scared me for a minute..

yes, i am an architect.

[shmolton]

Hmmmmmm?

[shmolton]

I know CT, I was just messin around. I used 4x12's. Are you an architect?

[CheezyTang]

serfy....Chicago...

has some great moderist architecture.

ever been to Oak Park?

[serfdom]

Gotta be FAST and LOUD to beat Serfy!

[CheezyTang]

shmolton, at first glance...

i say no.

I would have to understand the loading on the 2nd floor, but as a starting point, i would start at 3 2x8's sandwiched together..

But don't take my word for it, since i did not do an analysis of the exact condition. If it is load bearing wall that you are replacing, two 2x4's does not sound big enough.

CT

[shmolton]

Ah, I wanted to be second but my post was too long. You beat me serf, I get the bronze.

[shmolton]

Hi CheezyTang! I don't know much about architecture, but I just did a major remodel on my house without one. When using beams to replace load bearing walls on the bottom story of a two story house you can span a 12 foot gap with two 2x4's sandwiched together, right?