This collection of houses illustrates a splendid diversity of stylistic approaches and range of creative possibilities. An obvious love of the traditions of architecture is evident in each one - no mater what the historical precedent or geographic location.
CD-ROM includes : Over 200 hyper-realistic computer generated renderings. -- Over 40 computer generated animations and fly-throughs. -- Additional material on the projects such as sketches, diagrams, presentation drawings, model shots, photographs and wireframes. -- Interactive Architectural Office profiles. -- Technical notes on hardware and software equipment used by architects and renderers. -- Essays by architects in interactive format. -- Newest Apple technology QuickTime VR. -- Demos of leading 3-D and animation packages.
This collection of houses illustrates a splendid diversity of stylistic approaches and range of creative possibilities. An obvious love of the traditions of architecture is evident in each one - no mater what the historical precedent or geographic location.
Featuring innovative home offices that are inventive, accessible, and often wonderfully serene, this book is a rich source of ideas and inspirations embracing the call to work from home! Pavilions, sheds, studios, extensions—call them what you will, architects around the globe are experimenting with attached or detached workplaces and creating imaginative ateliers that strain the limits of “miniature”; one is just 100 square feet. It is a worldwide adventure in architectural experimentation and originality. Organized organically, much like the eco-sensitive structures shown here that only very lightly touch the land, the book allows a reader to meander happily into and out of ideas and space-sensitive solutions for writers, painters, accountants, ceramicists, and individuals of all stripes in need of spaces to think, to work, and to wonder. From a scholar’s library study in upstate New York that reduces an enclosed shelter down to its most spartan modernist roots to a weathered steel-clad extension in London humorously dubbed “Brexit Bunker,” featured examples are splendidly diverse expressions of the creative use of space toward an end of inspiration and productivity. We can work, study, and dream at a pace that responds to our individual needs in places that inspire us and fill us with delight—that is the goal…and the lesson to be learned here.
Located on a rocky shelf that drops down the eastern slope of Mt. Desert Island toward the Atlantic Ocean, the Seal Harbor House was designed by American architect Peter Forbes. It takes its shape from the island's striking, yet fragile landscape. A core of structural steel rises 40 feet to the apex of the clerestory, forming a strong, flexible spine meant to withstand the severe winds that frequently batter the site. Emerging from deep forest to raw, open cliffs, the walls of this extraordinary house become increasingly transparent until the structure seems to dissolve into planes of glass. The illusion is complete when glass planes are rolled back, exposing the interior of the structure to the outdoor environment. Even the non-transparent elements were designed to blend into the natural landscape--such as the cedar shingles, which are stained to match the lichen on the surrounding rock ledges.
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