God is in the Details

Lovely, especially like the watercolor effect on older drawings.

Did it get built?

17 minutes ago, Tennentslager said:

Lovely, especially like the watercolor effect on older drawings.

Did it get built?

 

No - this was a Second Year student project when he was 19. There are other things from earlier on the same theme. And for example a measured survey of one of the classicist buildings in Edinburgh - apparently they sent groups of students out to crawl over and manually survey buildings in different cities.

 

I'm quite blown away by the maturity of it at that age, and the quality of the paintings, though I guess that there might be some derivative elements in the design.

 

Of architects I know now, most still sketch, and I think it has a lot of value in getting a feel for the design rather than just creating a techno-model. I sometimes think in sketches, as do others here. And some think in models.

 

Some aspects are quite modern - eg master suite with dressing and bath is what a number of the larger projects have on here. Others - eg many rooms downstairs - are older concepts, but for 1957 it is quite good, and for a student very gimmick-free. The relatively small size of the study vs the reception rooms is something we were debating on here just last week. The four double bedrooms are great, but all with dressing rooms is a bit "To the Manor Born and Chucked into the Gatehouse by the 1950s Inheritance Tax Laws".

 

I'm quite tempted to use the material to start my own standalone blog - I've been sitting on a suitably self-build sounding domain for some time now, and it would be a nice Christmas Project.

 

Edited November 11, 2018 by Ferdinand