Although analyzing 200 million data points and 86,000 top-ranked online properties may not sound like the sexiest way to begin residential concept design, this is precisely how Swedish property site Hemnet began the statistically-oriented process for designing the ideal "Swedish home." An estimated two million Swedes participated in the survey by clicking on their favorite design features and ideal property types. Hemnet gave the user-generated information, such as preferred number of rooms, bathrooms, ideal room size and overall price, to architects Tham & Videgård, who took the data and transformed it into a tangible, livable design.
In addition to utilizing the popularly derived statistically-oriented data (Swedes prefer 1.5 floors, 120 square meters, three bedrooms, and an open kitchen, among other amenities), the architects blended iconic Swedish aesthetic concepts to create the final design. The red wooden exterior is meant to recall a traditional Swedish cottage, while the white interior references aesthetic modernity and contemporary sociopolitical infrastructure. The home features one large window per room not only in a nod to sustainability, but as a method for keeping the interior light and airy. No word yet on the specific asking price for this home from the country that brought us IKEA, although Hemnet invites further "arclicktecture" enthusiasts to play around with prospective home CAD templates on its website.
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Looks like lame dwell junk
When are we going to learn that design isn't a set of data points?
architect you have been replaced
Perfect. Consumers have been trained to make selections from a highly limited predetermined, pre-approved menu of "choices" which are largely indistinguishable from one and other. The architect can be dispensed with entirely, a computer program assembles the virtual components into a program for low-cost labor to assemble prefabricated components made by child labor in Asia or 3D printed out of toxic waste.
Well, it's no Fallingwater. Perhaps this is an ironic statement by the architects to prove a point? Seems similar to prefab design: i.e. another super trendy idea that zero people like or want to use (except in magazines).
Its interesting how tech is trying to embrace "design" while at the same time not understanding a single thing about it.
You design with people in mind, but people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Focus group architecture is like this: the Villa Crapoye
The architecture wasn't derived from the data. The Program was developed from the data. The design and development of the program was done by architects. It's not bad. It's a million times better and nicer than 99-1/2% of the cheap crap that gets squirted out across the world. Looks pretty easy to keep organized and clean (lot of grout in the bath though).
Big glass. How many developers would put that kind of money into glazing? It looks kind of MVRDV-ish. Better than anything I've ever been able to rent or purchase.
Yes, it's not Fallingwater, but Fallingwater isn't even Fallingwater anymore. It's a kind of crowded, gaudy tourist trap. The life that exists there now isn't the life that's supposed to be lived there.
^ agree.
I've derived data from 200 million clicks and have created the perfect song--you guessed it, "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit. There's no need for any other music. Enjoy eternity, human sheep!
^ extra points for the limb bizkit reference.
The data was close, a dead heat with "Wild Wild West" by Will Smith.
Agree with light person too. You are both right. The house is an averaged mainstream version of all things trending in the dwell architecture mags....Its Limp Biscuit....But its also still better than 99.5% of the new homes on the market...which are more comparable to David Haselhoff's greatest hits....actually even worse than that...more like christian rock.
I mean, Chipotle aint Grandmas tacos, but its a step up from Jack in the Box.
I'm for diversity in the built environment. I would even like the house above as long as it isn't shoved down our throats.
^still better than Nickleback
Is nice enough but what does this "The home features one large window per room not only in a nod to sustainability" even mean... Somehow sunlight/glazing equals green?
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