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construct a minimally invasive, low impact, and simply constructed, although not prefab, clowder of 31 dwellings in the back country of teddy roosevelt national park in north dacotah.
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tagged: 31houses, north dakota
gordon matta-clark didn’t die from pancreatic cancer, he had consumption. in his last days he moved to this stone house in the monument valley to convalesce. this indexical monument was his last work; it is still being created.
hails to wikipedia: A weather house is a folk art device in the shape of a small German or Alpine chalet that indicates the weather. A typical weather house has two doors and two automata, side by side. The left side has a girl or woman, the right side a boy or man. The female figure comes out of the house when the weather is sunny and dry, while the male comes out to indicate rain.
In fact, a weather house functions as a hygrometer embellished by folk art. The male and female figures ride on a balance bar, which is suspended by a piece of catgut or hair. The gut relaxes or shrinks based on the humidity in the surrounding air, relaxing when the air is wet and tensing when the air is dry. This action swings one figure or the other out of the house depending on the humidity.
sandstorm
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im sorry in advance for the vague similarity to house 26. this is not a home for a man and his pets. this is a habitat nexus that must be constructed to avert trophic cascading as humans homogenize the planet’s surface.
1. On land, where biological diversity is generally far less than oceanic environments, the third trophic level lions can be the final trophic level and the local top predator.
2. In many land biomes, humans and dogs effectively share the role due to their co-operation.
3. Size is an obvious advantage in having no larger animals that might prey upon them as adults, as with a sperm whale.
4. Inaccessibility of its home makes such a hit-and-fly predator as a bald eagle an apex predator.
develop the constructed nexus of dens and shelters that occur in the same geographic point but allow each tenant to maintain his or her reign over their outlying habitat.
Any biologist can tell that our body’s cells are constantly dying and being replaced by new ones and every seven years we change the complete set of cells that means we change our body every seven years but this change is so gradual that it’s imperceptible. So, each of us has a number of “different” bodies in this very life. The body of an adult is completely different from the body the same person had as an infant. Yet despite bodily changes, the person within remains the same.
http://science.krishna.org
dead load:
two to three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, living/dining area, kitchen, roof deck
live loads:
recording studio, bakery, dentist, garage, tax assistance, airbrush shoppe, darkroom
each live load is utilized for seven (7) years, then replaced or abandoned to decay. live loads normally occur sequentially, but two live loads may be briefly simultaneous. live adaptations may invade the dead loads.
in the spring of 1861, two roommates, one for union and one for secession, unfortunately share a two bedroom house.
and the war came.
rather than break a lease and lose the deposit, each side must modify the dwelling so as to carry on the conflict, each praying to the same god, and each invoking his aid against the other.
program: 1974 preuss’s program
tifs in /31-file-list
tagged: 31houses, battlefield
hhumbert said: to any other type of tourist accommodation i soon grew to prefer the functional motel - clean, neat, safe nooks, ideal places for sleep, argument, reconciliation, insatiable illicit love.
please appoint a nook for humbert to enjoy with the nymphette of his choosing.
although the archetype is strict, i have proven that there is endless possibility within the type!
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be site specific!
as young architects rake in the cash on fast-track chinese signature design work, they find the freedom to express themselves locally with more exquisite building materials. design a small home outside of marfa built entirely out of donald judd objects.
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and donald judd? well hell, you know who he is!
tagged: 31houses, donald judd, poaching, texas
former bachelor pad taken over by a detached father with his dissatisfied second wife and frustrated daughter.
program: staircase, attic, rusty nails.
tagged: 31houses, hellraiser
in honour of david hemmings, we continue the week w/ more stories from cortázar. i don’t know if you have time to read ‘the bestiary’, so we will marry a bit of that piece w/ todays narrative.
guide: house taken over pdf.
context.
psychological context.
program: dining room, library (french literature), living room w/ tapestries, 3 bedrooms, bath, kitchen, 2 master bedrooms, vestible vestibule, corridor, large oak door.
