That Is Interesting! 6 Designs Which Defy Labels
July 31, 2019
A number of the topics for the ideabooks whom I write come about by navigating photos on . Regardless of what sorts of filters I’m using (outside living living room, modern vs. contemporary, metropolitan area, search terms, etc.), I find something fresh, and eventually I’ll see a common strand that shows a design story. Other times some aspects of a design are so exceptional that they stand apart, resistant to be lumped in with other homes. I’ve assembled some examples, designs which share the trait of which makes me think, “That’s interesting!”
Shinberg Levinas Architectural Layout
What looks like a green display punctured by means of a glass box is exactly that, but what makes it especially intriguing is how it sits in the front of a ranch home. The display was designed “to transform the conventional into the natural transitional,” as Shinberg Levinas Architectural Design explains it.
Shinberg Levinas Architectural Layout
In this shot, we can see the present house’s roof over the display and part of the front wall through the glass box, however on both counts only barely. The architectural camouflage is pretty effective, and it points to an equally thoughtful strategy in the lawn.
Shinberg Levinas Architectural Layout
The same designers crafted another dwelling where the timber outside wraps a walk-in closet and bath. The designers call it a “protective casing,” but it is one which is punctured by gill-like vertical strips.
Shinberg Levinas Architectural Layout
The impact of this vertical strips is apparent inside the bathroom, where beams from the trees dancing onto the translucent glass surface.
Wheeler Kearns Architects
More strips can be found on this particular garage for Dan Wheeler, co-founder of Chicago’s Wheeler Kearns Architects, with spouse Larry Kearns, who helped build the flat veil.
Wheeler Kearns Architects
However what looks like oversized siding throughout the daytime glows like a lantern at night. Beautiful.
Wagner Hodgson
This photograph of a residence’s front lawn is intriguing not just for the pillowy picture designed by H. Keith Wagner Partnership, but also for the way the strips move through it and round the various elements. The one on the left proceeds beneath a stone before stopping at a stone wall, while the one on the right only misses a tree until it cuts through precisely the same stone wall.
Wagner Hodgson
The strip cutting the wall is actually glass with lights beneath, illuminating a path that proceeds to the building because a tall, narrow window. The stone of this partial-height wall has been echoed in the walls of the home designed by Truex Cullins & Partners Architects, with the beam of light uniting both.
Wagner Hodgson
Another interesting detail in front of the home happens at the path leading to the front entrance. Instead of routing the path across a tree or siting the home so both would not coincide, the two elements merge. Even though far from normal, it seems to work very nicely, possibly because of the slender and tall nature of the shrub.
Wintersole Architecture
I’m a fan of innovative uses of brick in modern designs, therefore I really like the way the texture of the freestanding wall — portion of a three-house project by Richard Wintersole Architect — is created through the orientation and positioning of bricks. The narrow openings which align with the heads of individuals sitting on the wood benches are a nice touch.
Wintersole Architecture
Another brick wall to the project arranges the material in a herringbone design. Even though the wall is level compared with all the ridges in the previous photos, the pattern provides the wall a clear texture, as well as rhythm accentuated from the uplights.
Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architecture
The previous project is interesting for the way Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architecture built an ancient 20th-century landmark warehouse to residences, especially in the way they worked and retained the 1980s columns to the design. These columns have what seem like orthogonal mushroom caps, so giving the interiors a solid industrial personality.
Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architecture
The oblong column is really wall-like, and the architects laid out the living room so the structure helps to specify the different regions in the double-height space.