I like it.

For someone who claims to hate the country and love the city, Charles sure is attracted to houses and other buildings way out in the sticks, unsurrounded by any kind of urbanity at all.

why is it funny?

it's not funny.

it's just bad architecture.

what is it with the "fish cannery" motif?

I think it's funny.

That's not funny. This is funny:

So the Robie House walks into a bar. It sits down.

"Something wrong, pal?" the bartender asks the Robie House.

"No," says the Robie House.

"Well then," says the bartender, "why the long face?"

Ba-dum-bum.

I'd live there. It's interesting and if you built it somewhere with a great view it would be equally great.

Kelly O and Ari Spool give Seattle Box can of Rize, Seattle Box drink Rize, freak out, Hulk out, SEATTLE BOX BECOME ROCKY HOUSE ZUFFERY!

HULK HOUSE WILL SMASH PUNY FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE!

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

I spent most of my teens in a house that looked a lot like this, in Buckinghamshire. Some nutjob had built a development of these 'Swiss' houses around the base of a hill in the early 70s. The crazy roofline is to deal with massive amounts of snow. It doesn't snow in massive amounts in Buckinghamshire, but does just enough to make it hard in the winter for a car to climb a long, steep driveway that was the only egress from each house to a street that for no apparent reason was at the TOP of the hill - surrounded by these houses. Now THAT was funny, but not particularly if you had to dig out that driveway and keep it gritted and salted.

I want that house.

it's not great, but at least it's not as banal as this shit...
http://www.elementalarchitecture.com/projectsIMAGES/singlefamily/MOUNT%20BAKER/web/A-Baker-Left-side.jpg

the nunatak project is a riff on the existing landscape...
http://www.nunatak.ch/projets_nunatak/logements/zuffrey/01.jpg

at least it's responding to something, other than itself... and the interior is rather interesting, sectionally.

I'll take the vineyard with the house. See what wine money can buy one.

It looks like a Mack truck capsized into a ditch.

it seems really out of scale comapred to the houses next door. the large window on the end of it looks to be 30 feet or more tall. is it real?

that's the perspective.

the building is only about 28' tall, the window at the low end is about 7'6" tall.

I like it. And I'm inclined to like it more because Charles Mudede hates it!

"the result (the ultimate matter)"? really? in case we didn't know what "the result" meant?

i admit it, i actively look for the inanity in charles's posts because it cheers me up.

but you make it so easy. the result (the ultimate matter) is that i end up feeling less petty than i probably should.

It's funny because the roof slope is not enough for the snow fall ...

This is not my beautiful house!

@18:

that slope is probably fine. any slope helps, but it's certainly not meant to shed snow as a steep pitch would.

i have no doubt it's engineered for a heavy snow load, although with the presence of grape vines in the yard, its not in switzerland's alpine regions.