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I am buying a house and I spent months to find this perfect, simple, contemporary design. This article made me think a lot about my choice of architecture for m
by kull 6y ago
I am buying a house and I spent months to find this perfect, simple, contemporary design. This article made me think a lot about my choice of architecture for my home. In my mind, living in ‘boring’, modern, blank, mostly empty spaces gives me a taste of how in my mind the future, 300y from now will look. Less colors and sharp edges bring to my mind less chaos, gives a sense of minimalism and simplicity. I do not want my physical space taking my attention, too many colors and shapes do not help me to think. I make my living from thinking and living my digital life, contemporary design aligns with it.
- martindbp 6y agoEasy solution: live in a gray box. Preferably underground so the rest of us don't have to look at it. I'm only half serious.
- martindbp 6y agoEasy solution: live in a gray box. Preferably underground so the rest of us don't have to look at it. I'm only half serious. Personally, I like details, but I don't like clutter. If it's complexity I have to maintain myself, I don't want it.
- vbezhenar 6y agoI'm thinking about building a house in the future. It should be made from bricks (as I love this material) and I don't really want to make any interior finish. Just huge gray box of pure bricks with exposed electric wires, stone floor, etc. I think it's called loft or industrial style and people trying to mimic it. But I hate mimicking, things must be natural. Not sure if it's practical and I definitely did not see anyone implementing it. But that would definitely reflect my personality in some way.
- Brian_K_White 6y agoA blank/empty building or space is only as right or wrong as why it was made and what is done with it. A grey box is ugly, and even disfunctional if the function of housing humans is any different from the function of storing items. But a grey box may also be a canvas, which ends up being the very opposite of ugly and dead and inhumane. One of the great appeals of the loft/industrial thing is the space is reconfigurable at will. You can have very inventive and artistic weird beds hanginging from chains at novel elevations and producing interesting spaces underneath, curtains for divisions that move around and can be opened to make a big open space one day and cozy spaces the next. There is no single form that is really the one true best form. The ability to change is more soul-filling than anything. It's not practical and most people can't afford to have 3 homes where one is all cozy spaces that feel like a claustrophobic rat warren after a while, and another that is all clean sterile Ikea which is a refreshing break from the rat warren for a while and then feels sterile and un-fulfilling after a while... one perfectly valid approach is an empty space, but empty for the sake of it's configurability, not for the sake of the emptiness itself.
- sidpatil 6y agoWhat would the energy efficiency of such a building be?
- vbezhenar 6y agoWell, I simplified that a little bit. Walls are supposed to contain space filled with insulation, so it would have pretty standard energy efficiency.
- rbecker 6y agoSo something like https://japanese-school-asahi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/img_9615-1.jpg https://japanese-school-asahi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01... ? No clutter, simple, minimal. Time-tested and completely unlike contemporary architecture.