Chilean house is literally just some glass and wood. Scary to think how people sleep in that.
Dream Homes from the Past Century
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#12Recently my idea of a dream house would something in the traditional Japanese style with wood, tatami, shoji, and a beautiful garden. I remember being really blown away by the Nomura house [1] in Kanazawa many years ago. Of course I would probably want to update it with better insulation, air conditioning, and more glass/screens to let me enjoy the views of the garden while keeping the bugs out. The best part is you…
If you're into that, you might dig this guys YouTube channel [0]. He bought an abandoned traditional house in Japan and is documenting the process of fixing it up.
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#13Chilean house is literally just some glass and wood. Scary to think how people sleep in that.
I imagine being on a lot large enough or remote enough that you have no visible neighbors probably helps.
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#14Recently my idea of a dream house would something in the traditional Japanese style with wood, tatami, shoji, and a beautiful garden. I remember being really blown away by the Nomura house [1] in Kanazawa many years ago. Of course I would probably want to update it with better insulation, air conditioning, and more glass/screens to let me enjoy the views of the garden while keeping the bugs out. The best part is you…
If you're into that, you might dig this guys YouTube channel [0]. He bought an abandoned traditional house in Japan and is documenting the process of fixing it up. 0: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ3TEq5SrUuTJuMl1S_4ig
Yup I have seen that. Just seeing how intricate the roof is on his house has really given me a new appreciation for that style of building.
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#15Recently my idea of a dream house would something in the traditional Japanese style with wood, tatami, shoji, and a beautiful garden. I remember being really blown away by the Nomura house [1] in Kanazawa many years ago. Of course I would probably want to update it with better insulation, air conditioning, and more glass/screens to let me enjoy the views of the garden while keeping the bugs out. The best part is you…
A lot of those homes are difficult to retrofit with decent heating and insulation. I had a friend thattried this with an old Beijing hutong whose bones simply weren’t designed for central heating. You can put in something, but it will be expensive and/or ineffective.
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#16Part of me loves architecture and seeing these amazing homes. Sadly, a bigger part of me cannot afford a 1 bedroom condo. In my old age, my lower middle class 'lot in life' prevents me from really enjoying luxurious things.
Brits in the Austen period distinguished between attributes, acquisitions, and accomplishments. The first are things one is born with and keep until death, such as eye colour. The second are things one has bought and may sell. The last are things one has done, or has learned how to do. You may not be able to acquire instances of 'architecture porn', but you can enjoy them (and may even be able to rent them), and very little keeps you from accomplishing things.
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#17Recently my idea of a dream house would something in the traditional Japanese style with wood, tatami, shoji, and a beautiful garden. I remember being really blown away by the Nomura house [1] in Kanazawa many years ago. Of course I would probably want to update it with better insulation, air conditioning, and more glass/screens to let me enjoy the views of the garden while keeping the bugs out. The best part is you…
For anyone with a serious interest in traditional Japanese houses, the best book in English is by Heinrich (Heino) Engel "The Japanese house: a tradition for contemporary architecture". It goes through everything from climate to philosophy to woodworking.
A few of its chapters were later republished in a smaller version you can borrow free from zlib here: https://b-ok.global/book/2696550/f47105
[edit] Someone else online who has found the same love for this book as I have: https://mypeculiarnature.blogspot.com/2015/08/japanese-woodw...
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#18I dislike how much glass is used in many of these houses. I imagine they let a LOT of ambient noise and heat inside.
You can build windows that have sound attenuation greater than common wall construction.
My office at home has a series of 62"x80" windows effectively forming the walls on two sides of four sides, and smaller windows covering on one side. I had the windows built as 3/16"-PVB_laminate-1/4"-1/2"_gap-1/4". The lamination and the different thicknesses detune the panes, and the large mass provides a lot of attenuation.
You can hardly hear someone standing outside yelling. People often comment how quiet it is after they step inside and close the door.
[It also helps that I don't have any computers in the room-- just display/keyboard and long fiber displayport cables to a rack in another room.]
These windows aren't particularly exotic... basically just the minimum you might to do design for a lot of attenuation.
Here is a comparison chart (from a quick google): http://girardglass.com/uploads/stc_rating_chart.pdf
Similarly for thermal insulating properties. Modern coatings can reject an enormous amount of heat-- enough that in some designs its preferable to us less effective coatings because the windows face the morning sun and the heat gain is beneficial.
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#19First I was surprised to see how modern were these houses from the ”past century”. Then I realized that the past century is no longer the 19th century, as it was while I was growing up and got used to the term.
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#20Are these dream homes or architecturally interesting homes? I would certainly not want to live in one of those homes.