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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:04:26 +0000

By: Bo Lucky

Bo Lucky — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:46:15 +0000

Nice work… four comments though:
1. Roof overhangs are way too small to play a role they should have in prolonging the building lifespan.
2. Heating bills will likely be significant. This is the state of NY.
3. Maintaining such awkwardly placed windows clean will likely be quite a challenge.
4. Seems like more time could be spent on a fenestration design to get some kind of a harmony in this disorder and to provide a user friendly building envelope.
Otherwise … looks good…

By: Il granaio smontato e ricostruito della Goodman House

Il granaio smontato e ricostruito della Goodman House — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:55:21 +0000

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By: Goodman House by Preston Scott Cohen in New York - design top news

Goodman House by Preston Scott Cohen in New York - design top news — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:15:39 +0000

[...] Goodman House is another projects of Preston Scott Cohen, and location in Pine Plains, NY, USA. A transported, restored and re-erected Dutch barn frame is contained in this house like a guitar in its case. The gabled barn form appears to turn outside in due to a passageway traversing the entire width of the house. The breezeway converts into a winter garden by means of slide up screen doors and roll down glass doors. Thermally transformable, the breezeway/winter garden saves energy costs while allowing visual access from the interior living space to the upper reaches of the unheated fifth bay of the barn structure. [...]

By: A

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:21:29 +0000

With the steel frame’s independent lateral load resistance criteria, it could have been formally explored to serve as a counter form to the base form of the timber frame thereby creating a dialectic. Regardless if the steel frame is ultimately expresses as a surface (a skin) or a volume wrapping or containing the timber frame, a dialogue between the two protagonists of the project could have yielded a potentially more interest project. Instead the 1:1 relationship yielded a cliched iconography of the barn typology with windows as decorations. Granted, the architect may have had his hands tied behind his back as the client may have stipulated a barn identity for the project but that would simply confirm that for most architects even one as intellectually engaged with the discipline of architecture as PSC really doesn’t have a voice in the matter…

By: bp

bp — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:00:09 +0000

is this a design within reach outlet store or what?

By: Lulu

Lulu — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:51:39 +0000

Would be a great space for my studio.

By: Lulu

Lulu — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:50:26 +0000

The structure of antiquated timbers looks particulary great. Reminds me a bit of a warehouse. I also love the whole open space with a possibility to transform the areas.

By: richie

richie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:39:19 +0000

l like that.

By: António

António — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:58:35 +0000

Inspiring!
Lucky owners!