The concept house

[meresjeva]

(a letter to the future)

So, Marky… You offered me to describe - even roughly - the house where I would want to live the rest of my life in Finland.

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dream house

[anonymous]

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Re: dream house

[meresjeva]

Marky,

careful with the rooflights! Who do you think will clean them, and how often? Remember those lights in St John restaurant - they were always dirty!

Hugo Häring - you mean Gut Garkau? I'm not impressed, sorry:) It is a lovely cowshed indeed (very much like Aalto university buildings in Jyväskylä ;)) but the windows are too narrow and generally it reminds me of а grain elevator.

The drawing I've drawn in Paint with my mouse. It is much worse than what I used to do as a child, though - I used to produce much less details, lines were cleaner, and the trees certainly did not look like humans.

You can post the sketches from Flickr, or send me these, I'll sort them out.

(funny how we both think of cows at the same time - I looked at this and got very depressed. Horrible fairy-tale.

Re: dream house

[anonymous]

OK your right about rooflights - but maybe some small ones that can be reached from the inside and from the roof terrace...indeed they might be small, or better 'clerestorey' like a church where they are vertical but facing south or evening sun and still scooping. Scooping light down into the north or back rooms can be nice thing especially in the evening sun.

I know you won't like the look of Gut Garkau...more historical note that this was very influencial in postwar German organic some of which you might like ok...kindof like Tapoli a lot.

Re: dream house

[prussak]

Please let me remind you that Hugo Haering's architecture is not organic in the term of biomorphic, or curvilinear, or else - it's "organHAFT", as the Germans put is, which is a reflection of principles, that lay as a foundation of some matter, and not of an outer form. In fact, it's true functionalism!
Thus, the Garkau cowshed is not designed to have a pleasing facade: it is made - and was - a perfect accomodation for some 15 cows and a bull. The windows were just enough for the sun to get in, and there were special ventilation slits to get the damp out.
Unfortunatly, Haering is almost impossible to translate. I would advise to to get some Peter Blundell Jones books on him.

Mark's inspirational pics

[meresjeva]

Re: Mark's inspirational pics

[meresjeva]

FIRST SKETCH

[meresjeva]

Re: FIRST SKETCH

[meresjeva]

OK, Marky... seems it is the first sketch ever that I do not want to bash too much:) I'm generally positive about the bottom drawing, but feel there's something seriously wrong with the two top plan drawings. I was analyzing this feeling and then I realised that ONE DOES NOT FLOAT LOGS IN THE SEA

Re: FIRST SKETCH

[meresjeva]

Oh well worth a sketch...I sort of like anaolgies of nature not copying it or being too much like it. Nature is always best and humans just settle themselves beside it in their own way using techniques that are both practical but beautiful...or more often they don't manage this at all. This tends to be straight line things really.

I thought if there were a few broken fragments it would feel less straight, but maybe you would like one straight side to the house?...it's handly to have a straight wall for all the ordinary things, then the free form glass and angled wall and the rounded pechka have something to show themselves off against, a bit like the bright birds need an ordinary background to show off to the others:) the north part straightforward log cabin with smaller rooms in it, with curved pechka and freeform poles and glass? I'm starting to see the pechka as the perfect thing for Miro curves, and makes lot of sense to be curvy for lots of reasons we might discover.
M