Slog - Comments on Fun House

Comment by Bub

Bub — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:56:38 -0800

I like it.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:08:59 -0800

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.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:13:17 -0800

why is it funny?

Comment by PC

PC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:19:39 -0800

it's not funny.

it's just bad architecture.

what is it with the "fish cannery" motif?

Comment by eustaceia

eustaceia — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:30:07 -0800

I think it's funny.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:48:20 -0800

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.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:05:08 -0800

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

Comment by The Incredible Sulk

The Incredible Sulk — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:08:07 -0800

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.

Comment by Grant Cogswell

Grant Cogswell — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:32:54 -0800

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.

Comment by misquito, neato

misquito, neato — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:46:54 -0800

I want that house.

Comment by holz

holz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:05:47 -0800

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.

Comment by Sargon Bighorn

Sargon Bighorn — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:07:46 -0800

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

Comment by RainMan

RainMan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:21:41 -0800

It looks like a Mack truck capsized into a ditch.

Comment by jameyb

jameyb — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:01:56 -0800

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?

Comment by holz

holz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:26:57 -0800

that's the perspective.

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

Comment by Dade Murphy

Dade Murphy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:03 -0800

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

Comment by The Post (the words therein)

The Post (the words therein) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:42:53 -0800

"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.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:34:42 -0800

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

Comment by CP

CP — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:05:58 -0800

This is not my beautiful house!

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:25:34 -0800

@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.