Architecture

Mindy · 05-09-2020, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Thanks for this example of how colour can be used: what an impact that red door has! Also, what a way to utilise what was, I presume, just a regular roof, as per the adjacent buildings.

^ Yes, this place looks nice at a glance, and in fact there are now several tv progs that look at Tiny Houses, always very chic, but very small.
Having lived in a bedsit for several years, I can report, as plankton suggests, that there's no real substitute for having actual space, although the deck in your picture might help relieve a sense of claustrophobia (weather permitting).
Tiny House living must come with a whole bunch of constraints which don't appeal to me: you have to give away your books after you've read them, there's only room for one type of cereal in your kitchen, and you put your back out every time you change the bedsheets because you can't actually walk round the bed.
But as a frequently lazy person, the saddest thing to see are the home-owners proudly lifting up and folding down various bits of furniture, "And this turns into a table with space underneath to store your winter sweaters,"etc. Somehow I know I'd just never bother; tiny house living might suit someone who is never off-duty from being excruciatingly tidy, but wouldn't suit someone like me with a tendency to slobbism and hoarding.

If I lived in the two story tiny house I posted, Id laptop outside on a table up there if the weather was nice out

Lisnaholic · 05-09-2020, 09:02 AM

It's true that it could be nice Mindfulness, and the whole Tiny House concept appears to be becoming popular;on a relatively low budget you get a sense of home ownership, independence and individuality, and most Tiny Houses are put in attractive, low-density areas, so you have immediate access to some quiet, rural space too.
Also, I realise that some of my complaints are disappearing in the computer age: whole collections of books and albums can be reduced to one usb memory stick, for example.

Plankton · 05-10-2020, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

and im sure your frisbees need their own room.

Naw. I only have a few of those.

Lisnaholic · 05-10-2020, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

I need a ball room. Room for my balls.

^ And how many of these do you have, Plankton?

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In its day, the Pompidou Centre was famous for its use of colour, also for the fact that it was built "inside-out"; all the structural steelwork, the service pipes and ductwork were exposed on the outside of the building and colour-coded according to function. The idea was to achieve a huge uncluttered space inside the building for exhibitions, etc.

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Location: Paris. Architect: Brit.

DwnWthVwls · 05-10-2020, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

Naw. I only have a few of those.

Did you just concede that your disk toys are in fact frisbees or are you a blasphemer that owns disks and frisbees? Either way, mwahaha.

Plankton · 05-11-2020, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ And how many of these do you have, Plankton?

Maybe once per every ten years or so, where I get to dress up in my gown.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

In its day, the Pompidou Centre was famous for its use of colour, also for the fact that it was built "inside-out"; all the structural steelwork, the service pipes and ductwork were exposed on the outside of the building and colour-coded according to function. The idea was to achieve a huge uncluttered space inside the building for exhibitions, etc.

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Location: Paris. Architect: Brit.

Yoiks. It almost looks like scaffolding on a perpetually unfinished oil refinery. *shrug* I wonder how many hundreds of revisions there were to those drawings. lol

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Did you just concede that your disk toys are in fact frisbees or are you a blasphemer that owns disks and frisbees? Either way, mwahaha.

I have 3 frisbee's and hundreds of discs. I'm not sure what your definition of blasphemy is, but ok. We use the frisbee's to warm up sometimes. There's quite a few players that have a freestyle or ultimate background and it's a fun way to get the body moving and watch these guys show their stuff too.

Mindy · 05-29-2020, 11:25 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLBqdnrCLw

Mindy · 06-19-2020, 11:27 AM

Posted this today on the gram and facebook, thought id share here

Lisnaholic · 06-20-2020, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

Posted this today on the gram and facebook, thought id share here

That's an unusual and very attractive arch, Mindfulness. Lots of arches are in buildings, of course, where they do an important structural job, but free-standing arches like yours are mainly decorative, so there is a lot of pressure to look nice. Here are a couple of others, though not rustic like yours:-

< Somme War Mermorial, France

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Originally Posted by Plankton

Yoiks. It almost looks like scaffolding on a perpetually unfinished oil refinery. *shrug* I wonder how many hundreds of revisions there were to those drawings. lol

That's a good comparison; it never occured to me, but now I can't un-see it.

Yes a bunch of revisions, I'm sure. Back in my day, revisions were always recorded in a column above the title block, like this:-

Also, they are invariably by letter. I once worked on a project that had been running for years, and had to change a drawing that was already at revision "R", so my changes were revision "S" - and that was the furthest up the alphabet that I ever saw !

Lisnaholic · 06-20-2020, 10:01 AM

Of course some architects become total arch fetishists. This guy decorated his building with interlinked blind arches: not only do they lead nowhere, but they are copulating in full view of everybody. Hot, if you are sexually aroused by stonework:

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Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	Of course some architects become total arch fetishists. This guy decorated his building with interlinked blind arches: not only do they lead nowhere, but they are copulating in full view of everybody. Hot, if you are sexually aroused by stonework: "Arch for Arch Sake" (©Trollheart) __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

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