Comments on: Arritt Farmhouse / OnSite

By: Rosalind Derby

Rosalind Derby — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:45:44 +0000

I really like this: so good: in NZ rural this would totally work: tried the same concept in a period, rural job here, but a little too contemporary for the client,so it got lost in the process early on: this is really fun: explore it! go for it!

By: Gastón Rojas

Gastón Rojas — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:53:15 +0000

Recuerdo que vi este proyecto como idea años atras, verlo realizado es mucho mejor http://t.co/YfQqnYq vía @archdaily

By: Akiyoshi Nakao

Akiyoshi Nakao — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:02:42 +0000

Arritt Farmhouse / OnSite | ArchDaily http://t.co/w8BYA3w via @archdaily

By: ozmoto

ozmoto — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:26:45 +0000

I didn’t ask it not to lean…. the pleasure is yours not mine…. weak….I’d have to have a good reason….I’m curious.

By: ozmoto

ozmoto — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:20:28 +0000

Oh… and the building glows at night like historic leaning buildings do.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:30:21 +0000

I admire the idea and the subtlety. At night the intention speaks most loudly. The issue I am having is the execution. The cheap windows and the unfinished interior detailing degrade the project rather than help amplify it. If the architects’ point was to help us pay more attention to the old building, greater refinement of the new construction could’ve made this project a real success. As is, it’s just not quite there.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:40:40 +0000

This is really beautiful,What is it really for?

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:33:07 +0000

pomo is back!

By: LD

LD — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:16:31 +0000

No way Megan: It only more clearly divides old and new, rather than “gently” or “elegantly” unites.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:05:10 +0000

Agreed Megan. I would have taken it a step further and tried to completely dematerialize the connection and made it even lighter/transparent. The play of old and new reminds me of a couple projects I saw over in Europe, notable the Jewish Museum in Berlin (the way Libeskind leaves a gap between the Coliegenhaus and his glass courtyard, and the underground passage way to the new building) and Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Gasometer City housing in Vienna.

I love the attention to materiality in the addition and the dialogue it has with the existing house.

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:37:46 +0000

No way LD: The clear separations between old and new are what gives this project its gentle elegance.

By: dezign_bot

dezign_bot — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:03:44 +0000

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:49:22 +0000

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By: LD

LD — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:40:11 +0000

That narrow umbilical-cord-like hallway is a failed and desperate attempt to link the old and the new structures. Come on, you can think of a better solution than that.

The architects should have combined the two balconies on the second floor of the old building while they were there. “Hey neighbour!”

By: OnSite

OnSite — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:42:33 +0000

John got it right: the addition is built on the footprint of an old slave kitchen, that was not built nearly as well as the rest of the house and was on its way to falling down. While we had to demolish this building (the timber was reused in the renovation), there was a lot of sentimental value attached to it on the owners part. The “lean” to the new addition, which is torqued 3.5 degrees, recalls the one of the old kitchen before it had to be taken down. The new addition being translucent, we call it the ghost of the old kitchen.

As far as the insulation question is concerned, the two layers of self insulated polycarbonate panels coupled with the trapped air in the wall cavity provide the building’s insulation.

Thanks for your comments!

By: wpgmb

wpgmb — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:11:13 +0000

so what? it’s a fun project. almost like something you’d find in Tokyo. not bad for Virginia.

By: John

John — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:47:11 +0000

Perhaps the building leans because it is using historic buildings as a precedent, structures which are often no longer square.

By: Nicholas Patten

Nicholas Patten — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:31:02 +0000

Arritt Farmhouse. http://bit.ly/dtwPCu

By: freq

freq — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:25:49 +0000

“Why does the building lean?” / “what justifies this form?”

Why not? / The pleasure of looking at it? Would that suffice? What reasons would you accept? And why?

By: voisin de ville

voisin de ville — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:30:20 +0000

polycarbonate is used this way in France, and normally propose a good insulation.
I wl=ould ask the same question as ozmoto:
what justifies this form ? structure stabilty ? symbole ? nothing just ?
If it’s “nothing easthetic pleasur”, I would say this is just a demonstration of ability to draw and to organise a site … youpi what a fun …