The primary purpose of Magazine of Designs is to provide you with images to browse through, and visual information to stimulate your own thinking about design issues. For the most part, we leave the process of evaluation in your hands. Each category of design is represented by a symbol, and some houses fall into more than one category. Symbols representing design categories are found in the upper right of the screen for each house. Slide your mouse over a symbol below for a design description or further information.
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Buildings which consciously assert their autonomy from social norm.
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A way of building, and occupying a place, which sustains the natural environment.
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Houses which simulate the stylistic categories of the past.
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Designs which depend upon commonly practiced ideas and technologies.
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Houses which purposefully experiment with unfamiliar social, or technical practices.
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It is interesting to note how design reflects the cultural politics of our time. If we were to limit the word 'culture' to mean a set of symbols that are common to a people, then we could make an argument that each of these categories of design represents a material subculture of North America. The degree to which a house can be included in multiple categories is a reflection of its cross cultural accessibility. If a house appears in only one category, we have read the design as being exclusively concerned with the issues of one social group. In our discussion of the single family house, 'inclusivity' or 'exclusivity' is not necessarily good or bad, it is simply a design attitude to be aware of.
Designs by architects always respond to very particular circumstances. They are definitely not meant to be copied on another site.
Designs by building companies can be customized to varying degrees, depending upon the company. They usually offer the benefit of quick construction resulting from systematic organization of construction methods.
All of the designs presented are the property of the firm or company which provide them. We ask that while you benefit from their thinking, you also respect their copyrights. You may certainly contact them for more information.
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Program and Site: To design an inexpensive and spacious house on forty (40) acres of ranch country between
San Antonio, and Austin, Texas. The 40 acres of scattered oaks and flat river-bottom land are bordered on the east by a large limestone cliff with a small stream. The house requirements were simple: master bedroom and library, large living area, guest bedroom, and an expansive garage for cars and light farm equipment.
Solution: The existing Alamo Cement plant, being demolished and sold for scrap at the time, was the perfect starting point for an inexpensive, spacious house. We toured the plant and selected a 180' long, 40' wide, and 20' tall 1920s steel-framed building. In addition to the building, metal stairs, railings, roof vents, cement kiln bricks, and a forge were purchased. The construction cost of the residence was greatly reduced as a result of this recycling.
The final design shows the steel building broken into three parts. The narrow central building, clad in metal, contains the master bedroom, library, utility, and open dog-run entry. The open three-bay structure on the south is the garage and farm implement building.
The four-bay structure on the north contains the living room, kitchen, and second-level guest bedroom floating within screened walls. The z-shaped arrangement of the building works with the existing oak trees to create two distinctive courtyards: an entry court defined by the open car pavilion, and a river court on the east defined by the screened pavilion.
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The stone living room within the screened building forms a wall to the cold winter wind and captures the cool south-easterly breezes in the summer.
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1992 Paul Hester (Photographer)
Lake/Flato Architects, Inc.
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The thick stone walls contrast with the metal screen and galvanized metal walls. The recycled cement kiln bricks will be used at the inglenook fireplace vault.
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Lake/Flato Architects, Inc.
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Roof ventilators and light tubes are mounted on the roof of the living room to exhaust hot air and bring in light. The spacious nature of the industrial buildings allows for an elegant collage of cement plant parts and natural materials.
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Lake/Flato Architects, Inc.
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Open building (garage) -- steel frame, gravel floor, galvanized corrugated roof.
Opaque building (bedroom) -- galvanized corrugated sheathing and roofing, flat metal at entry and central hall.
Screened building (living room) -- metal screen set within steel framing, corrugated metal roof.
Stone-enclosed living area, flat metal clad guest bedroom shed.
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The existing house sits on a curved, gently sloping site that is graced with a magnificent series of oak trees and a spectacular view. The clients asked the architect to remodel the existing house, while adding a private realm that completely transforms the site, projecting a series of dramatically articulated, three-dimensional volumes beyond the original house and into the garden. Another small bedroom is planned for the opposite end of the existing house as a small roof pavilion..
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Linking the new with the old, a ninety-foot-long undulating plaster wall both invites and denies communication between the public and private spaces. Set around the curve of the wall and the site, both the old and new wings focus on the distant views.
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1992 Tom Bonner
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Spaces within the home are delineated through structural and sculptural elements -- a studio is elevated on four posts which form the canopy chamber for a bed below, and a telescoping cone of bonderized steel forms a fireplace that functions as an eddy within the spatial flow.
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1992 Tom Bonner
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The materials reinforce the variety of forms. A gridded rectilinear studio perched highest on the site is covered in cedar plywood with redwood battens. The master bedroom has curved walls and a skewed, vaulted roof, all clad with bonderized sheet-metal panels. Service areas are finished in metal-troweled plaster. Tongue and groove wooden siding on the street facade recalls the existing lapped siding of house and fence.
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1992 Tom Bonner (Photographer)
Franklin Israel Design Associates
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Entry is signified by a small pool-shaped garden -- a gesture of welcome in the arid Los Angeles climate. A tilting steel-and-glass canopy shades the street terrace and the visitor.
1992 Tom Bonner (Photographer)
Franklin Israel Design Associates
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The entry also serves as the center of movement throughout the site -- a place from which one can proceed to the garden or the house, to a formal or informal order, to a public or private domain..
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1992 Tom Bonner (Photographer)
Franklin Israel Design Associates
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Each category of design begins with houses unique to that category, followed by houses that also qualify for other categories.
Address information for contributors to the Magazine of Designs is found on the credits screen following the presentation of each house and in the Credits Section of Resources (click the Main button for this section).
Designs by architects always respond to very particular circumstances. They are definitely not meant to be copied on another site.
Designs by building companies can be customized to varying degrees, depending upon the company. They usually offer the benefit of quick construction resulting from systematic organization of construction methods.
All of the designs presented are the property of the firm or company which provide them. We ask that while you benefit from their thinking, you also respect their copyrights. You may certainly contact them for more information.
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1992 Norman McGrath (Photographer)
Michael Graves, Architect
The Plocek residence is sited on a heavily wooded, steeply sloping hillside in suburban New Jersey. The three (3) stories of the house are expressed in the street facade whose articulation recalls the classical tripartite division of rusticated base, "piano nobile" or main living floor, and attic story.
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The house is entered at the lower level through a gate pulled forward from the street facade, and also at the main level through the east facade adjacent to the parking court.
The house is experienced as a series of layers organized along the two (2) primary axes of entry whose intersection is marked by a central "stair column." he column's large wooden framed capital at the upper story is capped
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The house is experienced as a series of layers organized along the two (2) primary axes of entry, whose intersection is marked by a central stair column. The column's large wooden framed capital at the upper story is capped by a skylight which allows natural light to penetrate the center of the house. Second floor bridges with full height metal railings wrap around the stair column and reinforce its reading as an object in the center of the plan.
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Michael Graves, Architect
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1992 Paschall/Taylor (Photographers)
Michael Graves, Architect
The house is furnished with built-in cabinetry, freestanding furniture, and lamps and rugs designed by Graves. The mural above the fireplace terminates the main east-west axis of the house. Entitled Archaic Landscape, it recollects the general themes of the architecture and also refers to the natural landscape of the hillside beyond.
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Each category of design begins with houses unique to that category, followed by houses that also qualify for other categories.
Address information for contributors to the Magazine of Designs is found on the credits screen following the presentation of each house and in the Credits Section of Resources (click the Main button for this section).
Designs by architects always respond to very particular circumstances. They are definitely not meant to be copied on another site.
Designs by building companies can be customized to varying degrees, depending upon the company. They usually offer the benefit of quick construction resulting from systematic organization of construction methods.
All of the designs presented are the property of the firm or company which provide them. We ask that while you benefit from their thinking, you also respect their copyrights. You may certainly contact them for more information.
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The site is on a large waterfront parcel on the southeast portion of Martha's Vineyard Island overlooking the Atlantic Ocean as it meets Vineyard Sound. A strict planning code determined that the house must be set back from the marshland, as well as from a no-build zone on a hill, and that it should have a one story elevation when viewed from the beach. Also the code stipulates the house must be built in wood, in natural weathered grey color.
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Steven Holl Architects
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In the locally inspired novel Moby Dick, Melville describes an Indian tribe, which made a unique type of dwelling on the island. Finding a beached whole skeleton, they would pull it up to dry land and stretch skins or bark over it, transforming it into a house.
This house is like an inside-out balloon frame structure. The wooden "bones" of the frame carry an encircling veranda, which affords several ocean views. Along this porch, wood members could receive the natural vines of the island. The ground vine tendrils transform the straight linear mode of the architecture.
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The plan is a simple set of rooms set perpendicular to the view within the setback lines of the site. Beginning with a mud and recreation room off the entry, there are two bedrooms, a kitchen and a dining room in a protective bay. The living room drops down according to the site. The master bedroom on the second level has a special view of the ocean across an exercise room and sun deck on top of the main house.
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The wood frame with 6" x 6" vertical members is treated and exposed to weather. The 2" x 2" wood members of the guard railings, as well as the 3/4" x 8" board siding, are weathered wood. ndows are insulated glass in painted wood frames. Fireplace
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The windows are insulated glass in painted wood frames. The fireplace is of locally gathered stones set in concrete...
1992 Paul Warchol (Photographer - Both)
Steven Holl Architects
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Goldberg-Bean House,Hollywood,California
Franklin D. Israel Design Associates
254 South Robertson Blvd.. Suite 205
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Steve Shortridge
James Simeo
Jeffery Chusid
Leslie Shapiro
Michael Poris
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The Goldberg-Bean project consisted of an addition to a single-family residence in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The resulting building will more than double the size of the existing 1950s ranch-style building.
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1992 Tom Bonner
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The residence, located on a small hillside street in a quiet residential neighborhood, is surrounded by homes which run the entire span of regional styles, from Spanish Revival to Postmodern. The clients asked the architect to remodel the existing house, while adding a private realm
The primary purpose of Magazine of Designs is to provide you with images to browse through, and visual information to stimulate your own thinking about design issues. For the most part, we leave the process of evaluation in your hands. Each category of design is represented by a symbol, and some houses fall into more than one category. Symbols representing design categories are found in the upper right of the screen for each house. Slide your mouse over a symbol below for a design description or further information.
hsdesc
Buildings which consciously assert their autonomy from social norm.
gddesc
A way of building, and occupying a place, which sustains the natural environment.
prdesc
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Houses which simulate the stylistic categories of the past.
condesc
Designs which depend upon commonly practiced ideas and technologies.
uncdesc
Houses which purposefully experiment with unfamiliar social, or technical practices.
fmidesc
It is interesting to note how design reflects the cultural politics of our time. If we were to limit the word 'culture' to mean a set of symbols that are common to a people, then we could make an argument that each of these categories of design represents a material subculture of North America. The degree to which a house can be included in multiple categories is a reflection of its cross cultural accessibility. If a house appears in only one category, we have read the design as being exclusively concerned with the issues of one social group. In our discussion of the single family house, 'inclusivity' or 'exclusivity' is not necessarily good or bad, it is simply a design attitude to be aware of.
Designs by architects always respond to very particular circumstances. They are definitely not meant to be copied on another site.
Designs by building companies can be customized to varying degrees, depending upon the company. They usually offer the benefit of quick construction resulting from systematic organization of construction methods.
All of the designs presented are the property of the firm or company which provide them. We ask that while you benefit from their thinking, you also respect their copyrights. You may certainly contact them for more information.