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- ReallyChili, on 02/16/2009, -1/+59It may be built at Taliesin West, but saying it is in the style of FLW is patently false.
- AikoMiko, on 02/16/2009, -1/+39I'm glad it was "Furnished with Furniture". I hate it when they furnish houses with dead bodies.
- OneRottenTomato, on 02/16/2009, -1/+35Stunning Prefab In the Style of Ikea.
- BurningSand, on 02/16/2009, -1/+18Cool.
- jamac, on 02/16/2009, -0/+15I was fortunate enough to spend an evening here celebrating the completion of the project. The way it hangs over a wash and has a see through platform is one of the details you don't see in these photos. It was also remarkable that you could accommodate about 20 people comfortably. No, this is not in the style of FLLW, but that's not the point - that was just what the poster chose to write. The point was showing creative and sustainable building on the cheap: mission accomplished.
- KwikLinks, on 02/16/2009, -1/+13Very cool!
- kingofinternet, on 02/16/2009, -3/+15that looks nothing like wright's style.
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -1/+11Prefabs? Even container houses nowadays can be stunning, for a ridiculous price! All you need is the property, and you can have a house like that for $25k, furniture and installations included! All it takes is 4 containers for that one, but you can buy more and make it a lot bigger, with several floors.
Container houses and prefabs are the future :) The advantage of container houses over prefabs is resistance to earthquakes and hurricanes, since the structure is solid steel. With a PVC layer, it's perfectly isolated of outside temperature.
Then install some solar panels on the top, and you're off the grid ;) - jba68, on 02/16/2009, -0/+10Glad I am not the only one that thinks so.
- solecize, on 02/16/2009, -2/+11The problem is that anyone living in a trailer doesn't typically have a beautiful expanse of land to set up their modern prefab. Take a hundred of these and stuff them in a trailer park and it will look like a typical redneck hive.
- liquisoft, on 02/16/2009, -0/+9Did nobody notice the largest flaw in this design?
The bedroom is separated completely from the bathroom. One has to walk outside in order to access bathroom, and then walk back outside to get back to the bedroom.
Imagine this scenario: You wake up in the morning and have to go take a shower before work. So you walk outside in your boxers and go into the "living" section (which is a separate building, technically, so it has to be locked separately). You take your shower, and then have to talk outside in your towel just to get back to your closet.
It seems like the designers succeeded in affordability and style, but they failed in function (which everybody forgets is the most important part of design). - LxTxJx, on 02/16/2009, -0/+9i agree... its a box with a cantilevered roof. that doesnt mean its in the style of FLW.
- cplusplus, on 02/16/2009, -0/+9Solar panels might work better if they pointed up.
- celotil, on 02/16/2009, -0/+7Transparent solar panels used in place of part of the windows.
It's what I'm using for my beach house design. The entire roof is transparent solar panels, able to be shuttered if the weather turns to deep frozen *****.
Actually, on something like the pre-fab, I'd probably just use regular solar panels on the walls, and roof, with some sort of ready to move cover system in case of bad weather. - isukeyo, on 02/16/2009, -0/+7This has absolutely nothing to do with Wright's architecture - the only connection to Wright is that it was designed and built by Taliessn students. Stylistically, this has absolutely nothing to do with Frank Lloyd Wright. This is a pretty standard Modernist style house.
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -2/+8That's an ignorant mentality comparable to "You can drive a hybrid, but my Hummer is still tougher if it crashes at 80 mph"
It's because of comments like that, that humanity hasn't evolved as fast as it could in housing, transportation and energy technologies and materials. - inactive, on 02/16/2009, -2/+8This is not for people "living in a trailer". It's for people who want to save money AND still have style, comfort and a sustainable house that respects the environment.
If you buy a piece of land, instead of spending $1 mil or $500k building a house in cement, you can have a shipping container house with solid steel structure, make it bigger with several containers, cut them as you wish to build the arquitecture, isolate the metal with foam and cement, and install furniture and utilities. All for about $25k. Then you have a beautiful house for generations, and you can spend the remaining $950k or whatever in a boat, a car and whatever else :) Give me any reason not to do it, and I promise you it'll be easily refuted - inactive, on 02/16/2009, -0/+5Better than an apartment... so don't complain. At least you can have animals and make noise any time of the day. And if freedom doesn't make you live happier, what does?
- Scott83k, on 02/16/2009, -1/+6"And here in the bedroom, you get a riveting view of the back of solar panels standing in front of your windows" There should have been more thought behind that aspect of the design.
- jbmcb, on 02/16/2009, -0/+5@Wetzilla - Er, not really. A lot of other architects also designed the furniture to go along with their houses, especially in the Arts & Crafts movement (Macintosh, Greene & Greene, Stickley, the Sears prefabs, etc...)
FLW was more well known for attempting to integrate the surrounding area with the "design language" of his architecture. If it were a true, FLW inspired building, it would be lower slung, integrated into the hillside, and built using native materials. It most certainly wouldn't be a red and white box floating on top. - ReallyChili, on 02/16/2009, -0/+5I can't think of anyone who would describe FLW's architecture as "big" or "simple."
- dangdude, on 04/15/2009, -0/+4This is modernist, not FLW
- PiscisAustrini, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4I want one.
- morcheeba, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4Furnishing with dead bodies sure beats furnishing with enraged wildebeests. At least you'll have a comfortable place to sit.
- blur13, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4i would have to agree. wright's philosophy is lost in the design. although it does utilize cantilevered roof, vertical planes, open floor plan and good use of the site. one thing that wright was big on was blurring the line between the exterior and interior spaces and they achieved that by the great view from the bedroom. however if the authored or the students had credited walter gropius or le corb as the inspiration then that would have been more appropriate.
- Equinamin, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4Thats my dream. I also am interested in sustainable housing alternatives for First Nations Communities challenged by weather conditions and remote locations.
Pre-fab is becoming closer to affordable so that new, clean, and eco-sensitive homes can be built for many who live in outdated and condemned housing. I always am looking for ways to improve the conditions of
Canada's indigenous beloved friends. These would rock on REZ!
Such great ideas you have.
Feel free to send them my way' - dmax801, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4Sunset mag has been promoting the GlideHouse and this excellent BreezeHouse by Michelle Kaufman. Gotta admit that it's tempting to find a nice plot of land and plan on dropping one of these things on it...
http://www.mkd-arc.com/homes/breezehouse/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG1Y-g4qsNY - woofers07, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4If they were facing south, they'd work just as good if not better.
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -1/+5Yeah. Well, listen to yourselves "that looks like a trailer with nice siding". And what's wrong with that? Why does it worry you so much what people will think, as long as you're comfortable?
The point is, prefabs and container houses don't NEED to look like trailers. That one was a demonstration of a cheap $15k house. I've seen copies of malibu avant-garde beach houses made with containers, and you'd never guess it's prefab.
It's prejudice. You don't want to be confused with "trailer trash", so you stay away from anything that reminds you of it, even if it's better, cheaper for your pocket, and more sustainable. So excuse me while you obey the standards of your little small town mentality, I wanna live in a container house even when I'm rich. It's cool as hell. - PhantomPhoenix, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4By the way, that is Postmodern, not Modern as Wright's work was.
- PhantomPhoenix, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4I just don't know about that gap between the bedroom and bathroom...
- HamatoKameko, on 02/16/2009, -0/+4I could be extremely happy in such a place.
- ophello, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3Oh my...I'm so...STUNNED...by this.
I hate unnecessary adjectives. - inactive, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3Awesome :)
- sodade, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3I've been watching prefab development with much interest. They HAVE to be analyzed on a cost per sq ft basis and generally, when they are, they do not offer the real cost benefit that is the main value prop for a prefab. Why would anyone care about a prefab that costs the same as a custom built from scratch building? A lower price point due to the economics of prefabbing is the whole ***** point.
- TimDigg, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3I want a prefab home so bad....I've yet to find a company that does this cheap though
- Nishnabotna, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3So who sells these fully furnished container houses for $25K?
- freedomjoe, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3I love this idea...they come in all styles now. Off the grid. that's my dream one day.
- xenmaster4, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3Wright tried to make his designs fit with the landscape in which they'd be placed - I don't think this smooth-plastic looking box could fit any less with those desert rocks. The thing looks about as out of place as if it had fallen from orbit.
- blinkgreen, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3It looks more like a Mondrian-inspired pre-fab home. Also, the painting looked kind of like a modern version of Miro.
- StinkyJoe, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2I ***** love names, too.
- dalittle, on 02/16/2009, -4/+6I wanted to like it, but honestly it kind of reminded me of a fancy doublewide.
- alzabo, on 02/16/2009, -1/+3Imagine THIS scenario: You're busily fwap'ing away in the bed room. Now, moments away from completetion you realize the only roll of toilet paper is in the bathroom. Staying in the bedroom risks soiling the pristine majesty of your bedroom, punctuating this architectural achievement with a foul, sticky exclamation. Also, there's no washer in this thing. So you ever so stealthily attempt to tip-toe outside, over to the other part of the house to get to the bathroom. Unfortunately, Grandma and Grandpa, worried sick about you living in a glass box out in the middle of the desert, happen to have driven over from Scotsdale with a bag of goodies for you. You can see that this won't end well...
- Fustigations, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2I would love to live in a house like this because it would have the double benifit of being a great domicile, and keeping prejudiced ***** out of my personal space.
- solecize, on 02/17/2009, -0/+2any reason- ok i want to live in a medieval castle- and not a prefab house (trailer). How is that easily refuted?
- alzabo, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2More like in the style of Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, or le Corbusier.
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -1/+3Why? Something wrong with being a musician and liking animals?
- inactive, on 02/18/2009, -0/+2should put some pontoons on the bottom for all those foolish enough to live on a flood plain.
- sfury, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2Cool.
Now we just need a ton of dynamite and Pink Folyd playing "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" in the background. - HartgE46, on 02/17/2009, -0/+2yeah, that design just resks of Prairie Style...
...oh and my suit is black not. -
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