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Guess the Architecture for 3/5/2019

Posted March 05, 2019 2:00 PM by MaggieMc

Can you guess this week's building?

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03/05/2019 10:23 PM

That's a building!?

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03/05/2019 10:40 PM

I'd be nervous going in that building after seeing ones slide to the bottom of hills during the Loma prieta when the supports gave out.
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03/05/2019 10:47 PM

Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater?
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03/06/2019 10:49 AM

You mean Goingtofallinwater.

FYI to those who don't know: Fallingwater was in the "it's going to happen real soon" state of structural failure when they literally had to re-engineer and replace the entire structural steel magic that held the concrete slab cantilever over the waters.

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03/06/2019 1:24 PM

...."They are by now the stuff of legend. Edgar Kaufmann's engineer thought the beams should have more reinforcing steel than Wright's engineers specified. It was Kaufmann's house; he won. Workers doubled the amount of one-inch-square bars in each beam from eight to 16. It wasn't enough. When they removed the wooden formwork supporting the first floor, the terrace sagged 44.5 millimeters -- about 1 3/4 inches."...

2001 restoration...

http://old.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20011208lowry1208fnp3.asp

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03/15/2019 9:53 AM

It is unfortunate that angled buttresses are now visible under the cantilevered deck. It was necessary to save the structure, but the angles are visually out of sync with Wright's design, which is all verticals and horizontals. I was there in 2001, just before this work began.

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03/07/2019 10:01 AM

I don't think so.

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03/07/2019 9:37 AM

What does anyone else think might be the intended function of the variable vertical louvres on the top floor?

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03/07/2019 9:52 AM

Could be storm protection, from the wind....or it could be for shading the Sunlight from the eyes, or temperature control.....or it could be privacy...I would say judging from it's partial deployment in a rather haphazard manner, that it is for shade...

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03/14/2019 1:56 PM

I more stymied by the what looks like gears along the base, that seems to suggest that at least a portion of this structure moves, perhaps following the Sun...Looks like it might have 20-30 degrees movement, this would perhaps suggest watching the sunrise year round....

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03/15/2019 7:33 AM

I don't see anything that looks like gears.

The red arrow points to what I'm pretty sure is a flight of stairs; the blue to a post which would prevent any rotation, though I don't know why the supports seem to be split at the top, and, I can't guess what the green arrow points to: maybe just a little wall to separate two storage areas or animal "beds".

I think the vertical cladding pattern on the main walls is quite unusual.

What about some kind of observatory?

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03/07/2019 12:44 PM

Is it a billboard, masquerading as a house, somewhere along Route 66 ?...

If not, then it ought to be...

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03/18/2019 11:20 AM

This building is the Peninsula House by Bernardes Arquitetura. Located in São Paulo, Brazil, the structure was actually intended to perch on the coast. The architects told ArchDaily that the "three stacked abstract volumes" were "delicately positioned on a steep slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean for minimum topographic impact."

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