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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 13:03:21 GMT
This house in my immediate neighborhood started bing erected in 1999. The owner ,an architect student at the time, built it in stages,I suspect largely due to $$. Everyone watched eagerly to see what it was going to finally look like. My husband dubbed it the Y2K house. Needless to say,it has aroused much curiosity,as well as ire and or admiration. I have come to know the owner peripherally and am working my way up to asking him for a tour or at the very least a view of the rear of the house. It sits amid traditional Creole Victorian shotgun houses and cottages. It really stands out. We now refer to it as the "2012" house".   to be continued |
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Post by bjd on Nov 6, 2009 13:07:36 GMT
It looks as though he was trying to be modern but also to fit in with the traditional houses so he has neither one nor the other. I think it lacks windows.
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Post by imec on Nov 6, 2009 13:15:27 GMT
I really like it (except for the apparent lack of windows as bjd noted). Is that a balcony at the top?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 13:41:24 GMT
I'm not really sure if that's a balcony,I would imagine so. The house is really close to the river and I'll bet he has a view of it from up there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2009 15:37:39 GMT
I can see what he was trying to do in terms of building something that would fit in with existing architecture yet not be a copy. I think he succeed with general shape, color, and cladding, but failed miserably with design. Obviously it lacks windows, and the ones it has are stingy and poorly placed. That structure over what I presume to be the front door looks like a bird house stuck on to a barn.
You say he was an architecture student "at the time". Any idea if he was thrown out of the program?
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Post by bjd on Nov 6, 2009 17:36:56 GMT
Bixa, maybe the structure over the door has a special mechanism so he can pour boiling oil on unwanted visitors like Jehovah's Witnesses or encyclopedia salesmen?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2009 18:23:19 GMT
Or an angry mob of architects and neighboring homeowners?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2009 16:15:32 GMT
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Post by imec on Nov 11, 2009 5:08:15 GMT
Windows!!! Wow, that is fantastic!
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 11, 2009 6:22:23 GMT
Now that looks quite ok.
When I looked at the first pics I thought those blinds would be able to be retracted.
Whose's the woman with the hat, Cas?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2009 6:25:39 GMT
Once you said it faced the river, Casimira, I had figured out that all of the windows were on one side "and the hell with the neighbors!"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2009 16:44:49 GMT
The windows are massive as you can see. I don't know what you are referring to as "blinds" hw. the siding material is corrugated metal. (that is me standing in the pic to give idea of scale).  |
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 16, 2009 6:37:18 GMT
Yes, that's what I meant.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 12:53:24 GMT
There are no retractable blinds that I can see.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 16, 2009 15:52:04 GMT
I can see the blinds! <-- now, there's a sentence!
When I first looked at the pictures I noticed how the window frames are doubled inside, and wondered if that was to accommodate some kind of blinds.
Look at the next to the last picture in Reply #7. The angle allows us to see the blinds in the upper tier, although they appear to be behind the interior frames, rather than between the two.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 21:51:32 GMT
Now, I am thoroughly confused. I thought hw was referring to blinds being on the front side of the house (which is actually the back side). The side facing the street,the very first pics.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 17, 2009 2:58:14 GMT
HW is going to have to clear up what he means by blinds. But you do see the blinds in the photo above, don't you? It's more of a roll-down shade, not blinds in the sense of venetian blinds.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 17, 2009 5:14:33 GMT
I thought the 'corrugated' walls were actually retractable blinds. Sorry for confuse.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2009 12:21:20 GMT
I knew what you were talking all along hw. Why else would I have posted a picture of just corrugated metal?
Yes Bixa,I see the blinds behind the windows.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 17, 2009 16:20:46 GMT
I think his use of that siding was really clever and probably a good choice for the elements, insulation, etc. as well. It fits in with much of the regular clapboard used in the area, as can be seen in the pictures showing the neighboring house. I'm still mystified by the design clunkiness of the birdhouse structure over the front door, though.
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