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Posted by Pierre Levesque on March 26, 2007, 9:23 am
> On Mar 25, 11:09 am, "Pierre Levesque"
>>
>>
>> > Pierre, are you involved with this, because it reminds me an awful lot
>> > of yours?
>> > Specifically, check out #3 and #7 under the Jellyfish House heading:
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>> >http://www.iwamotoscott.com/ISARhome.html
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>> > It's also in Dwell magazine's April edition, page 64 (Canadian issue).
>>
>> No but it sure looks like IwamotoScott saw the VillaNM project at one
>> time
>> or another...
>
> It certainly does, almost a direct copy, if with an obfuscation via a
> "skin", an apparent dimple, and nudge sideways of a floor.
>
> For the Villa, the designer/s is/are Dutch, and you are/were the
> project manager?
Initially, my involvement was to be Construction Manager on the owner's
behalf so as to oversee the construction bid and contract to be the "liason"
with the designers in the Netherlands, their *partner* in the US (who did
all the detailing), and the Project Architect in New York who basically just
"rubber stamped the CD's" for approvals and permit. Afterwards, the owner
felt that he would prefer that I be employed as a consultant by the GC as
part of the construction contract (a decision he still regrets - it removed
my representing him rather than the GC). Still later, I superceded the
Project Architect to take over the Contract Administration when it became
clear that the owner had only hired him to review and stamp the CD's
(another indication that even though the owner was about to spend a million+
on a house, he was being cheap on services). In the end, the owner's
indecisions and penny pinching led to a 3 year struggle to get the thing
completed as one delay after another took place. But hey, what matters is
is finally got done...
> What did you have to do with the design if anything? If nothing; given
> the Jellyfish house, have/would you somehow incorporate the Villa's
> floor-to-wall concept into your own "vernacular"?
Very little other than to work on some of the detailing, building location
and some of the landscape design and planning.
>
> Incidentally, I particularly liked, or at least it was salient, what
> appeared to be the stair or bare spiral detailing of one of the pics
> you posted last Feb..
That building looked dozens of times better when it was naked and all bones.
>
> As I may have mentioned here around 2004 when you posted some info/
> pics on the Villa, I had designed a (three-legged) table awhile back
> for a design class, where its surface spiraled to become a leg.
> I never thought of the design in a whole house context, in part
> because I'm not an architect :) but I did have thoughts after the
> first prototype, of persuing the concept further and making a table
> where it "cracked" in the middle and where each half then spiralled
> (downward in the middle) around each's fulcrum to become a leg each. I
> thought it might be cool to apply this incarnation of the concept to a
> house. You could put a lovely stairwell right in the middle of the two
> spirals. I envision the idea being expressed with wood and industrial
> bolts as the spiral fulcrums, though, and left exposed unlike the
> Villa.
>
> Sometime this week I'll do and post a quick model and render of what
> I'm talking about.
>
Good idea. Images speak louder than words.
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