Can you imagine a new house formed almost entirely from a rigorous study of daylight? J. Glancey reports on a London house by young architect Gianni Botsford. read in the guardian
there are windows and skylights in most houses. the light comes thru them and create light and shadows. in a nut shell.. if you have a camera, you can catch some of the ways light behaves. thats all i saw in that house. is it nice? sure it is.
I fail to see what's revolutionary about the light study... they did "a 3D model of the house based entirely on the play of daylight" and turned into concrete and steel.. huh? .. I've been doin' this since I learned 3dStudio back in school and I've never been at the AA or any place like that..
also this pharagraph sounds like someone's been cheated: "Although expensive and the product of several years' thought, research and design, Botsford's mews house could serve as a prototype for much cheaper homes in tight, city centre sites. "Given the knowledge we have now," he says, "we could, I think, carry out a light study of a house in more or less 24 hours."
but yes, the house looks nice though, don't like to bash other people's work... a little bit of exposed concrete, a little bit of Corbu's Savoye, a little bit of a Kengo Kuma's house, and neominimalism... years of study > nice work.
Theres a glaring inconsistency with championing passive solar and thermal tactics while using materials with damningly high embodied energy and carbon byproducts. Won't be much sunlight coming in if everyone builds like this.
As far as aesthetics go, I think the only thing this building is fit to be a home to is stacked steel trays of cadavers.
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there are windows and skylights in most houses. the light comes thru them and create light and shadows. in a nut shell.. if you have a camera, you can catch some of the ways light behaves. thats all i saw in that house. is it nice? sure it is.
I fail to see what's revolutionary about the light study... they did "a 3D model of the house based entirely on the play of daylight" and turned into concrete and steel.. huh? .. I've been doin' this since I learned 3dStudio back in school and I've never been at the AA or any place like that..
also this pharagraph sounds like someone's been cheated: "Although expensive and the product of several years' thought, research and design, Botsford's mews house could serve as a prototype for much cheaper homes in tight, city centre sites. "Given the knowledge we have now," he says, "we could, I think, carry out a light study of a house in more or less 24 hours."
umpf!!.. yeah I can do it in, probably, 22 hours!
the pics on their site doesn't show anything out of the ordinary (that is, among whats published in every arch magazine every month):
http://www.giannibotsford.com/projects/006/index.html
but yes, the house looks nice though, don't like to bash other people's work... a little bit of exposed concrete, a little bit of Corbu's Savoye, a little bit of a Kengo Kuma's house, and neominimalism... years of study > nice work.
Theres a glaring inconsistency with championing passive solar and thermal tactics while using materials with damningly high embodied energy and carbon byproducts. Won't be much sunlight coming in if everyone builds like this.
As far as aesthetics go, I think the only thing this building is fit to be a home to is stacked steel trays of cadavers.
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