Posted by sabine7
Architecture | 10 Jan 08 | Comments (11)
Architect Neil Denari has joined forces with useful + agreeable to present the useful + agreeable house, a pre-designed mini hi-rise that has been conceived for a variety of uses in different climates. The u+a house can be used in the context of “small-lot or cluster housing, remote vacation property and rooftop penthouses among other possibilities”, wherever this avant-garde design with its smooth exterior can be envisaged. Aesthetically, this is an unusual vertical option, in contrast to the usual horizontal architecture we tend to feature. Tell us what you think of it.
+ u+a.com
Looks really interesting, but the windows are way to small in size and number. Will be quite dark in there...
I like this mainly as an alternative to a vacation property/cabin. I can see the City reduce lot sizes, maximize property taxes and cram as many of these together.
Other than that, it looks great.
In a word, no. Unless the site dictates the extreme vertical approach. Going up a flight to sleep is one thing but eating on a separate floor from the kitchen is just weird without servants. I'm assuming there's a bathroom in there someplace. The solar panels are nice.
ooh, i love this idea!
but it kind of makes me think of the homes in bikini bottom...
you know sponge bob's home?
Thumbs up for thinking outta the box. However traveling up and down stairs all the time is time and energy consuming. Now, I'm all for physical exercise. However, I become irritable just walking around the dining table, what's all these stairs going to do to my mood..?
Love seeing new concepts in homes. This one is no exception. A room per floor is something I hadn't considered before and I can already see benefits in a plumbing framework.
Even folks thinking of living off-the-grid could benefit from a design like this because a water tower (or system) can feed the home from a centrally located input on top of the home. This means that it would be relatively easy to add sinks, toilets into any room...
The stairs = good exercise, for folks into that sort of thing;-)
A few more windows and larger rooms (leading to a more stable foundation and ability to turn rooms into mini-studios...) - and this looks extremely viable as an option.
The rounded edges are horrible, looks like the house it trying too hard to be futuristic or modern, make it a box with right angles and huge glass windows and you might have something.
For everyone that's always dreamed of living in a toaster/ipod hybrid
looks like a trailer park after a tornado.
no thanks.
Looks suspiciously like a suppository on its end.
A rounder or more square design might be a little more accommodating.