Azaran on 25/8/2023 at 20:55
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Not me. Concrete rooms give me a sense of unease. I immediately start looking for the exit as if I'm in jail or a rape room.
I'm probably in the minority, but I feel like that in modern all-white cookie-cutter scandi interiors, can't stand it. What most people find airy and cheerful, I find oppressive and dreadry, like I'm in a hospital. I'll take either a nice wall colour, paneling or wallpaper, or alternatively a dark concrete interior. I had my living room painted pastel yellow, with a sticker trim on top, and dark brown doors - I get a joyful, cozy vibe from it
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I love that little Hobbit style window in the house with the stairs. And for me it's wood that gives me wood. I like the warm feel of wood and windows and bookshelves with a couch to lie and read. Also Hobbit houses are energy efficient and only require a facade if mostly underground. Good for the coming scortched earth times ahead. Though why build one if you aren't going to make the interior like this?
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https://i.stack.imgur.com/5WbdZ.jpgLove this. I'm especially fond of dark wood, Tudor style wainscoting
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mxleader on 25/8/2023 at 22:22
That looks cool. How noisy is it?
mxleader on 30/8/2023 at 16:52
It looks nice but, yeah, it's pretty colorless. Living in desert is pretty dull since nearly everyone wants their houses to blend into the landscape.
mxleader on 30/8/2023 at 17:38
Transitional architecture can be interesting and fun. But here we see the early town of Leavenworth when it was developed as a typical American gold mining town. As the town grew the gold ran out, and then transitioned into a forestry industry. When all the raw material industries dried up, and the railroad rerouted it's terminal, the town was in danger of becoming a ghost town. Sometime in the 1960's the town leadership got the bright idea of turning the town into a Bavarian village to draw tourism dollars. Given it's setting with the alpine backdrop it was picture perfect. Of course it's wildly popular today and one of my favorite places to visit. But it is a complete facade. A fake. But it's such a good facsimile that you can't help but love it and suspend disbelief. Oddly enough there is an amazing south American cuisine restaurant called South that is located in the North part of town, and is nearly impossible to spot from the street. Even the Starbucks and McDonald's blend in fairly well.
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mxleader on 30/8/2023 at 20:47
Strange that French royal buildings are being restored and replicated by royalty from another country. You can cut off the head but it regrows like a paramecium.
heywood on 31/8/2023 at 13:11
To me that's too ostentatious. Just looking at it makes me cringe.
On the other hand, I really dig Jeff Shelton, though I wouldn't call him a modern architect. I think bright colors and eclectic decorations are great for the desert. Normally, I'm not that into art nouveau, but it works for the setting and his homes are fun.
Rancho Tehuán is nice too. Here's a desert-inspired house that I was going to bring up before the thread split because it has a GD video:
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https://sustainablehouseday.com/listing/steels-creek-underground-house/) https://sustainablehouseday.com/listing/steels-creek-underground-house/
I was also going to say something about concrete interiors. I like the look of the ones you posted Azaran, but I strongly suspect they will be uncomfortable to live in because of the acoustics. There needs to be more sound absorption, to reduce hard echos and get the reverberation time down to the level that people are used to and comfortable with. There is a strong relationship between the acoustics of a room and how cozy it feels, which is a point lost on most residential architects practicing today I think.
Finally, one more contribution for today. I found this while trying to find a pic of the Steel's Creek underground house. From Vegas (of course):
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