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The person who wrote this doesn't know any building architects who serve the wealthy. Rich people who want custom homes often want to design it themselves, and
by demondemidi 3y ago
The person who wrote this doesn't know any building architects who serve the wealthy.
Rich people who want custom homes often want to design it themselves, and then get extremely annoyed when confronted with the reality of basic design principles, usability, materials, structural integrity, etc. And then like to change their plans last minute once they actually start to see it framed in (assuming they don't freak out because they've never seen framing before and don't realize it isn't done yet). Or perhaps one of their rich friends made a glib comment or a jab while being shown the foundation and now the customer wants both their kids to have their own recital hall, because one isn't enough.
Another stellar example: someone wanted a garage put above their kitchen because they wanted to park their ferrari next to their bedroom on the second floor. Damn the exhaust fumes.
- angarg12 3y ago> someone wanted a garage put above their kitchen because they wanted to park their ferrari next to their bedroom on the second floor. You mean this guy? https://youtu.be/Us8mDKUaX2M?si=qnrckuGLyWzoFNAe&t=1515 https://youtu.be/Us8mDKUaX2M?si=qnrckuGLyWzoFNAe&t=1515
- defrost 3y agoAt the time, aspirationally, maybe. The next morning, after they sobered up, more like this guy: https://youtu.be/fqgrOl1q9p8?t=5 https://youtu.be/fqgrOl1q9p8?t=5
- maximus-decimus 3y agoI love how he's saying it's convenient because that gives you 2 parking spots... as if they can't afford to have room for a second parking space that doesn't block the car you put on the second floor while there's a tonne of empty space just in front of the garage door lol.
- demondemidi 3y agoIt's like living in a mall, I guess i'm just a boring plebe who likes cozy spaces.
- rurban 3y agoAn architect friend of mine had a special job for special clients, who turned out to be Saudi wives. They had good ideas, but their ideas changed every month with the newest update of their architectural magazine. So she went down to Riyadh or Mecca every other month to explain them the details of the design involved. The crazy thing is, that there were a couple of wives involved, not just one. And a couple of new high gloss architectural magazines. A lot of models had to be built. But this is common. Hitler as another rich nightmare customer was famous for adoring Speer's models, and changing his mind constantly. He always knew better.
- wodenokoto 3y agoYou don’t have to be designing a Villa for a rich individual for those kind of things. Some of the stories I’ve heard in Dubai are ridiculous. Fix, Developer asks landscape architects to draw a pool deck on the podium of a tower under construction. Landscape asks engineers about floor thickness and load numbers and are told that the podium, as completed, cannot carry a pool. Apartments have already been sold, with brochures showing pictures of a pool deck. Nobody told engineering that they had to spec for a pool let alone where on the podium. Another story I’ve heard: core of residential tower has been completed to 20 out of 40 stories when developer gets a bright idea and approach an architectural firm to design a rooftop pool, as if that’s not something that required planning in terms of foundation, structure or where to put maintenance equipment.