The Architecture Thread

[ballmouse]

Casa DATRI & DASA
2013
mavarq
Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, Mexico

It's nice, but it almost seems more like a public area or shopping plaza instead of someone's home.

 

[sugarbutch]

In case it wasn't clear from the photos and plans, it's two homes with a common courtyard.

 

[venividivicibj]

Yes, at first I wasn't sure if it was one home, or multiple hotel suites, or some other arrangement

 

[StephenHero]

vomit

 

[itsstillmatt]



vomit

yeah. its one of the worst i've seen.

 

[sugarbutch]

Which one? Or both?

 

[archetypal_yuppie]



Dune House

Give me a break.

 

[whiteslashasian]

I kinda like the Dune house.

Other one, concept of taking one traditional looking house and fracturing it, is interesting, but poorly executed.

 

[gomestar]

come on, Renzo

 

[venividivicibj]

Looks like three school bungalows stacked

 

[nootje]

Dont like the dune house either, that location allows for so much more and prettier architecture. Looks a bit like the architect wanted to incorporate view features in a traditional type of house there, and then decided to leave out all the features that make a traditional house fitting that area..

Do one or the other, don't mix. Then again, I know **** about architecture.

 

[mbaum]

Just checking in after a while and the last three houses, I don't like too much. That glass thing is atrocious and not because there is no privacy. It is just such a showy mishmash. And the dune house really is not much better. hate that weird incline with the showy windows and the layout is horrible.

The Mexican house duo I actually find quite interesting though the mass and material mix and confusing angles makes me nauseous. I have to confess that I do like the concept and idea and also the separation of open, public quarters downstairs and the rather clever layout of private quarters upstairs. But there is just way too much going on for me and the overall impression of sheer mass is crushing my soul ...

 

[mbaum]

Holy **** ... I also missed the foo vs. SH **** storm, a dissertation on modernism or whatever-ism, lessons in home decorating, Steffi Graf and Ken Lay. Thanks, guys. I had quite a few laughs strolling through the last 8 or 9 pages ... carry on

 

[Hayward]

The Dune House looks like the sort of thing you'd find at Sea Ranch:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sea...&sa=X&ei=EQY8VbCAK463ogTqjYCYAw&ved=0CEEQsAQ#

 

[itsstillmatt]

No. It doesn't.