Comments on: Balancing Barn / MVRDV and Mole Architects

By: bovolo

bovolo — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:04:24 +0000

@Elreta Qué te parecen http://bit.ly/bstSoB http://bit.ly/bm5ps6 http://bit.ly/XXCaE?

By: bovolo

bovolo — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:00:49 +0000

@martindonato Más info http://www.archdaily.com/21611/balancing-barn-mvrdv-and-mole-architects/

By: Tuf-Pak

Tuf-Pak — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:31:38 +0000

Dolphin bedroom.

By: andreas

andreas — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:59:17 +0000

House in Gerês / Graça Correia y Roberto Ragazzi

By: hery

hery — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:21:55 +0000

how long the cantilever???

By: Andy Smith

Andy Smith — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:53:50 +0000

“Its not a real cantilever. Two skinny columns are hidden in the fake swing set. The little girl doesn’t swing back and forth in real life…”

Jon, are you being funny or are being “funny”? I can’t tell.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:47:44 +0000

Its not a real cantilever. Two skinny columns are hidden in the fake swing set. The little girl doesn’t swing back and forth in real life…

By: francis

francis — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:13:10 +0000

MVRDV does great cantilevers but not convincing when the truss diagonals cuts across the windows and opening. I am beginning to suspect Arch Daily have been posting “tests” – whether you know your “stuff”. You think? The glass floor bit is kinda pervy me think; bordering on upskirt material. Com’on Arch Daily, play fair.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:48:51 +0000

@ Terry Glenn Phipps.
Many farmers’ homes have been built in a hillside with livestock spaces under the human spaces so that the livestock’s body heat warms the humans’ living spaces above. Particularly in Switzerland. Essentially, MVRDV has removed the cladding that would shelter livestock from the elements and made the space recreational. The design is not too far a stretch from such vernacular.

Looks good!

By: andreas

andreas — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:53:51 +0000

@Terry Glenn Phipps.
if you just took the time and read some about the project before you start with your critic comment you would understand that the “thoothpicks” that supports the house is a swing. the house structure is holding it up over the slope.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:30:37 +0000

these mvrdv guys are always very smart. it’s a really beautiful house and the spaces are large and well proportioned, although its surface is just 180 sqm.
the relation between the slope and the horizontal ground floor was used early in their career at the RVU building in Hilversum.
Now the concept is even more beautiful, due to the reflecting surface of the floor.
However, I would have made the cladding out of brick, to further emphasize the tectonic tension.
I also have a few complaints: the bathrooms aren’t naturally ventilated, the transparent ‘carpet’ in the living room seems a futile gadget, but most of all I am concerned about the structural brakes that would spoil the picture windows. I would really like to see the detailed structure of this house.
All in all, a beautiful project (unlike those for Houston, which were quite uninhabitable).

By: Terry Glenn Phipps

Terry Glenn Phipps — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:03:41 +0000

The British planning process is mystical – likely the true purpose of Stonehenge is to explain to the initiated how and why structures like this are approved.

The only place that this building would honestly pay homage to its vernacular is in a trailer park. Curiously, that is exactly what this looks like, a double-wide mobile home perched over the edge of cliff – kinda like the van in the last scene of “the Italian Job”, or the General Lee from the “Dukes of Hazzard”.

Why is this supported by toothpicks? Why does it need to hang off the side of this slope? Has anyone ever seen a barn? Has anyone ever seen a double wide mobile home? Where do you keep the tires? This project asks many more questions than it answers.

Terry Glenn Phipps

By: Tectonics

Tectonics — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:52:49 +0000

Love to see the swing in action under the cantilever.

By: preetty sandhu

preetty sandhu — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:09:31 +0000

makes for a delightfully beautiful barn holiday. I think I am moving from california.

By: The Wind and the Willows. « Idiot’s Musings

The Wind and the Willows. « Idiot’s Musings — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:08:11 +0000

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By: Andy Smith

Andy Smith — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:53:18 +0000

Love it. Simple, practical, light spaces.
It would be great to see renders of the interior spaces, and some of the exterior detailing. Is it clad in zinc?

By: Sérgio Caiado

Sérgio Caiado — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:13:05 +0000

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By: David

David — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:16:57 +0000

bathrooms are screened off with sliding doors within the walls

By: bruno mavet

bruno mavet — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:04:13 +0000

http://bit.ly/CdmS6
BALANCING BARN, novo do MVRDV

By: Ordener

Ordener — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:38:34 +0000

Hey, what’s with the bathtub inside the bedroom?