Comments on: Sapphire Gallery / XTEN Architecture

By: zarch

zarch — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:18:10 +0000

hi Mr. Lives Here, you did answer my question. thanks a lot.
i want to say it needs more detail design for a private and intimate life of a family，such like Curtain :)

By: Mr. Lives Here

Mr. Lives Here — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:11 +0000

Zarch. I apologize, but I am not sure I understand your question. Please ask again. I will be pleased to answer.

By: zarch

zarch — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:51:18 +0000

thanx! Mr.Lives Here i am just wonder if the architect did it for the family or not.

By: Mr. Lives Here

Mr. Lives Here — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:41:06 +0000

A curtain was installed in one of the rooms to decrease the heat load from direct late afternoon sun. The slightly recessed curtain track runs along the ceiling at the window. The bottom of the curtain is cut so that it is flat at the floor when covering the window. In other words, the curtain itself is longer at the end of the room where the ceiling is higher and shorter at the end of the room where the ceiling is lower. Another alternative would have been to raise the ceiling and then cut into it so that the curtain track could be installed horizontally. This would have allowed the bottom of the curtain to be uncut. This would have also allowed the installation of a roller into the ceiling so that a scrim could be used.

By: Fonda LaShay

Fonda LaShay — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:55:42 +0000

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By: zarch

zarch — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:14:30 +0000

one banal question
how functions curtain behind irregular windows?

By: Good Lord

Good Lord — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:20:22 +0000

Love the addition, greatly unimpressed with “the view.” :P

By: Mr. Lives Here

Mr. Lives Here — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:48:57 +0000

Let me give some background to the project. The “living area” about which the comments above may refer is in the original house onto which the Sapphire Gallery is attached. The original house was built in approx. 1958 based on a design by architect Edward Fickett. The functional aspect of XTEN’s gallery addition is intended to serve as an office (one room) and a play room (the other) that can display art. The design direction given to XTEN was to created something that does not ‘match’ the Fickett, but instead compliments it and is identifiable as being “50 years later.” The 2-car extremely ugly garage that was added to the Fickett house by the prior owner was knocked down and the XTEN addition was built in its footprint. XTEN was given nearly free reign (within a budget) to design anything it wanted that would function within the intended parameters. The key: find an architect whom you respect and let him or her design without too much interference from the homeowner.

By: Chiaro Scuro

Chiaro Scuro — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:06:33 +0000

Nice project, but I can see MJ’s point. A better selection of materials would really enhance the project

By: 2MACoff

2MACoff — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:05:29 +0000

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