jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2009 | house, dwelling, atelier, architecture, interior, design, Modern, Nathalie Wolberg
Just loaded with cool, modern features, Maison NW, in the city of Saint-Ouen near Paris, blows away concept dwellings with simple, useful, flexible, and elegant designs many more architects should explore. For example, a net under tension not only separates one level from another, but also provides space to sprawl, throw pillows, and relax with little but air underneath.
In principle, architect Nathalie Wolberg uses the body to define the shape of space. The dwelling uses global, area, and element scales and transfigures from just 1937 square feet a home for Nathalie plus needs for intimacy, autonomy, and sharing for nine artists!
Be sure to see the photographs!
jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 10 2009 | house, architecture, multimodal container, photos, design
Years of giant trade deficits in consumer goods have left North America awash in multimodal shipping containers. Some have designed houses from them. One episode of This Old House featured a builder in Florida assembling four to six of them into a moderately-sized house.
Compared to other materials, containers come cheap, but the trend has yet to catch. I imagine living in a 40-foot standard unit might feel like living in a single-wide mobile home, and zoning would relegate it to mobile home parks.
Meanwhile, they appear as design exercises, along with many other unusual houses.
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