Big Little House: Small Houses Designed by Architects

ISBN-13: 9781138024205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 190 str.

Donna Kacmar

Opis

What are the challenges architects face when designing dwelling spaces of a limited size? And what can these projects tell us about architecture - and architectural principles - in general? In BIG little house, award-winning architect Donna Kacmar introduces twenty real-life examples of small houses. Each project is under 1,000 square feet (100 square meters) in size and, brought together, the designs reveal an attitude towards materiality, light, enclosure and accommodation which is unique to minimal dwellings. While part of a trend to address growing concerns about minimising consumption and lack of affordable housing, the book demonstrates that small dwellings are not always simply the result of budget constraints but constitute a deliberate design strategy in their own right. Highly illustrated and in full-colour throughout, each example is based on interviews with the original architect and accompanied by detailed floor plans. This ground-breaking, beautifully designed text offers practical guidance to any professional architect or homeowner interested in small scale projects.

Spis treści

Foreword by Carlos Jimenez.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  Timeline.  Variant ONE: Porous Dwellings  01. Watershed  02. Music Box  03. False Bay Writers Cabin  04. Ravine Guest House  05. Writer's Studio  06. Hill Country Jacal  07. Kemper Cabin  Variant TWO: Focused Dwellings  08. Marfa 10x10  09. Keenan Tower House  10. Sky Ranch  11. Scholars Library  12. Roland Cabin  13. Small House in an Olive Grove  14. Stacked Cabin  Variant THREE: Protected Dwellings  15. Williams Cabin  16. Craven Road Studio  17. Pool House  18. Blossom Street 03  19. Nested House  20. Envelope House  List of Work  Index

O autorze

Donna Kacmar is a practicing architect and an Associate Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, USA, where she teaches Comprehensive Design Studio and directs the Materials Research Collaborative.