This is great! I would have never figured that someone in Edmond, OK would ever do something like this. I think it's the stigma attached to the town. My only wish is that it didn't look like every other house on the block there. If you were to drive down the street you wouldn't know what house it was just by looking at it. It's as though the builders aren't confident enough in the design of the house, so they need to make it look like the rest of the neighborhood. I would have prefered it to look different. It would have been a nice statement, and one that when people drive by they'd ask "wow... nice house... why did they break from the mold of the rest of the neighborhood"?
May be I'm way off my bases here, but I'd think the builder would want to get this house out to the people, and what better way to do that than to make it completely different.
you may be giving them too much credit, sb. i appreciate that they did this but, conceptually, it's the same builder m.o.: design by taking inventory.
it probably never occurred to the builder that the use of energy systems should change the way the house looks or is made. they're thinking about it as a realtor would:"dishwasher:check. jacuzzi:check. tray ceilings:check. pv panels: check."
it also probably helped keep it under 200k that nothing was done out of the ordinary in the construction of the building shell. if you can make the box just like those around it, you achieve economies of repetition/quantity and then just add the special systems into the mix.
it's now up to others to take what was achieved in this project and use it in a way that leverages it as one 'best practice' in a more holistic house design.
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This is great! I would have never figured that someone in Edmond, OK would ever do something like this. I think it's the stigma attached to the town. My only wish is that it didn't look like every other house on the block there. If you were to drive down the street you wouldn't know what house it was just by looking at it. It's as though the builders aren't confident enough in the design of the house, so they need to make it look like the rest of the neighborhood. I would have prefered it to look different. It would have been a nice statement, and one that when people drive by they'd ask "wow... nice house... why did they break from the mold of the rest of the neighborhood"?
May be I'm way off my bases here, but I'd think the builder would want to get this house out to the people, and what better way to do that than to make it completely different.
you may be giving them too much credit, sb. i appreciate that they did this but, conceptually, it's the same builder m.o.: design by taking inventory.
it probably never occurred to the builder that the use of energy systems should change the way the house looks or is made. they're thinking about it as a realtor would:"dishwasher:check. jacuzzi:check. tray ceilings:check. pv panels: check."
it also probably helped keep it under 200k that nothing was done out of the ordinary in the construction of the building shell. if you can make the box just like those around it, you achieve economies of repetition/quantity and then just add the special systems into the mix.
it's now up to others to take what was achieved in this project and use it in a way that leverages it as one 'best practice' in a more holistic house design.
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