Comments on: Outpost / OSKA Architects

By: J Bryar

J Bryar — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:54:49 +0000

Sorry but I hate it.

Aboriginal architecture in this part of the country gets what this house lacks, which is an appreciation of the reality of desert life.

The first requirement is the management of ambient light, which is INTENSE in the desert. This house would heat up like an easy bake oven in the summer. It is not enough to block direct sunlight, but in this environment reflected light would be sufficient to turn up the roasting oven in that top floor. Simply brutal.

Furthermore, one needs to deal with the wind in the high desert, particularly in the winter. The top floor will get hammered both by the direct wind coming in unimpeded at that level plus whatever is deflected by the lower wall.

This is another case of dramatic design at the expense of functionality.

By: harry

harry — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:45:00 +0000

This a really marvelous design,this is a house everbody want’s to live in.

By: yuur

yuur — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:29:22 +0000

muy noble el espacio interior, no dialoga nada con el contexto mas si algo con la tectura del material,trata de estar ahi como una nueva referencia para un nuevo contexto del las proximas edificaciones.
muy personal si me gusta.

By: angel

angel — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:06:31 +0000

EXCELENT PROJECT!! AN PERFECT GAME MATCH OF MATERIALS…
REAL ARCHITECTURE

By: Gon

Gon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Incredible views from the inside! :O

By: Fino

Fino — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:37:57 +0000

Wonderful. Just….wonderful and beautifully crafted.

that is all.

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By: julio ramirez bruna

julio ramirez bruna — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:01:44 +0000

if you have this sort of site, the least you can do is to dedicate the building to the surroundings, and the inhabitation that is going to happen with it, the thickness of the glass or the wall can be definetely adjusted to mantain the heat inside the building.
I found it so simple. Beautiful insides or outsides, these architects make outsides, not insides, AWESOME PROJECT.
Any glass box cannot be compared to Johnson, or Mies , to be more accurate… but everything is different, not the 40’s not german , is just a dinner table in the dessert.
A sensitives answer to the brief, without the obvious architectural concepts or redundant speeches.

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Outpost: Vivienda en el desierto con vistas panorámicas | OSKA Arquitectos — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:19:32 +0000

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By: salpickering

salpickering — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:07:58 +0000

The building sits as one with the surroundings. I would have liked to have seen more photographs from different perspectives. I have no more to say, as Terry Glenn Phipps’s fine words have done a wonderful summary in every way.
salpickering