{"id":225,"date":"2010-07-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/architectural-musings\/"},"modified":"2010-07-04T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T17:00:00","slug":"architectural-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/architectural-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Architectural musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK, I’m not an architect and I never will be; it’s a discipline that I totally respect and feel that practitioners of rarely get enough respect for.<\/p>\n

That being said, I do muse on the what the architecture of our “someday” house will be. I love living in the castle in the middle of Merrill, but that doesn’t stop me from dreaming of a green paradise.<\/p>\n

Things that I’d love: I really like Buckminster Fuller dome houses. They look really cool. But they aren’t the best for saving and using water, and I’d def like to be able to build permaculture landscaping around the house. I also like earth block houses, but I do wonder about the thermal properties in winter. Straw bale houses are awesome, but difficult to hang pictures in. Whatever we do, green & sustainable with good insulation is best.<\/p>\n

As for the roof, I think it might be cool if there was a way to shade it with a light, white, perhaps retractable material in summer, but have it dark for warming purposes in winter. Something like kevlar or cuban fiber (in a non-transparent version) sail cloth, hanging well over the house, to provide shade in the summer (providing shade for big south-facing windows for passive heating in the winter too), and a black roof in the winter. Not sure about where to put the solar panels…<\/p>\n

If only we lived in a more temperate climate, I’ve always wanted an open design home with a river running through it. Literally, I would want a river flowing through the living room of my ideal house. I know it’ll never happen, but it would be cool.<\/p>\n

The thing that I want more than anything is for my living room to resemble a James Bond villain’s lair – Dr. No, jungle lair in Moonraker, and the Man with the Golden Gun’s hideout being good examples. The beauty of these set designs (two of them Ken Adam<\/a> classics) is the combination of natural features — rock, driftwood, jungle, water etc — with 1950’s futuristic architecture and antique furniture (admittedly, some of this is interior design, not architecture, still). Love it.<\/p>\n

Someday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I’m not an architect and I never will be; it’s a discipline that I totally respect and feel that practitioners of rarely get enough respect for. That being said, I do muse on the what the architecture of our “someday” house will be. I love living in the castle in the middle of Merrill,… Read More »Architectural musings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[169,168,4,47,145,167,157],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}