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#3 is interesting and at least wouldn't be soul-crushing to live in. I'm glad some designers still remember that shapes other than rectangles exist. Too many wondows, but at least you'd basically have privacy.
ReplyDelete#4---Depending on where it is located---On hill, out of the way, in a forest----I am all in----
ReplyDeleteThe pond of the first house would attract biting mosquitos and masses of gnats, and all the glass houses have no privacy, no thanx :(
ReplyDeleteThe third house is classic European cottage and more livable, also the owner must be an artist with the painted stencils on the side wall of the house.
-Rj
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ReplyDeleteNo,.2 is from Orgère, Bretagne France. La maison-conteneurs (The Fying box house)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ignant.com/2016/07/01/a-flying-box-built-from-shipping-containers/
What is surprising me is that when I visited France specificaly in St Malo Bretagne they have strict architecture codes to build houses or anything helse near a old time architecture like that one on the right of this «mordern» house.
I was visiting and staying at a friend near Binic not far from St Malo, he told me that he could build his new house without complaying with the historical norms of the old buildings near his.
The kind of roof covering, the outside stones for his chemine etc etc at to be in pace with the rest of those constructions around to preserve the historical style of his village.
JiEL - Thank you for the link. It was nice to see other perspectives of the house.
DeleteI've always thought that these ghastly all-rectangles "modern" houses look like they're made from shipping containers welded together at random. But the link title makes it sound like this one actually is made from shipping containers? (The article itself isn't clear.)
DeleteBretagne is wise to keep up such architecture codes. The prevalence of the older, idiosyncratic styles of architecture is why European cities look so much pleasanter and more human than American ones. The older-style house to the right in that picture looks like something actually meant for people to live in, as opposed to looking like a piece that fell off of the starship Enterprise. And that kind of house can be perfectly modern. It can have modern plumbing, high-speed internet, reliable electricity, etc, and still look good on the outside.