I love how family-unfriendly such designs are. It is designed for people with no understanding of family life or children. And that furniture on a moving platform? I hope you have a good insurer.
As a concept, it is always worth talking in a newspaper or on YouTube but other than that it will be soon forgotten for being impractical and badly designed.
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If you forget the pointless moving platform sofa, the house with an internal three-story courtyard looks lovely and airy.
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Are there any safety issues from the large openings on the upper floors?
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The furniture and the house are beautiful. If there are more photos, NYT should consider adding a pictorial to the story to supplement the few photos that are already here. I'd love to see the rest of the furniture and how it fits into the home.
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What building code would permit that? I love the concept, but unless those holes are somehow protected by glass rails or the floor closing up (and even then, extremities at risk around those jacks) there's going to be an accident, particularly with three small children in this house?
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In Carmel CA on the beach is a marvelous Frank Loyd Wright house shaped like a fishing boat’s bow with strong windows where the cabin would be. In the autumn storms the waves crash against its bow upward and back as if the house were that boat.
Down the coast there is another shaped like a flying wing over the edge of the high cliffs above the waves.
I want a Bucky Fuller house with bookcases from basement to attic and this marvelous study rising and dropping from floor to floor overlooking the ocean or a rushing river and furniture like my once upon Charles Eames chair that my brother in law ‘borrowed’ while I was in Nam and ran away to be Commissioner of Micronesia .
And swing couches and beds that hang from the ceiling and where you can raise or lower them for conversations. And a great drum and gongs that you can pound and strike to resonate thru my house. Then bury me and plant a peach tree to feed my descendants or future owners with a title that forbids changing. Don’t want it. Don’t buy it.
So thank you for these photos and links and let me start by cutting scrap aluminum and with rebar and paint make another Alexander Calder mobile and put pipes thru the roof to sing in the winds so my guests will always know how to find us in the fogs.
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It's lovely and inspiring. The fact that it could kill you and your family gives me pause, though.
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It's an accident waiting to happen, just walking about that place.
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It resembles the furniture design of Danish Yul Ullu. Where are the crystal pull to adjust the height?
Please keep all arms and legs inside the ride at all times.
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Terrifyingly chic. How do pets, guests and children avoid falling into the void? Just wondering...
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Call me simple minded, but when it comes to Architecture, more pictures is more better. The house looks really interesting, I wish I could see more.
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When the platform is on the 1's floor how is the hole in the upper floors made safe ?
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I wonder what the building inspector said when they saw the 3-floor, open-air elevator shaft. I've already thought of three ways that could kill you - yikes.
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Really lovely story, and what a beautiful way to steward Paulin's legacy. (But I have to confess, as a very near-sighted and clumsy person, I am getting anxious just looking at this picture: How do you stop people from pitching over the side of those open platforms?!?)
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To me, this looks like an accident waiting to happen: A wide-open 10 foot x 10 foot hole in the middle of the house. What keeps anyone from falling through on the floors where the platform is NOT located at that moment?
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