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Crooked House

Weezbo
Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
in THE MAIN WALL
heat and gravity at the same time and heat won :)

there is a German architect that has some rather colourful buildings...i will find his name and a picture or two...

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  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,601
    Go to VIDEOS

    and check out The Crooked House
    Retired and loving it.
  • Dan_15
    Dan_15 Member Posts: 388


    Or how about the new Stata Center at MIT designed by Frank Gehry.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata_Center
  • Brad White_9
    Brad White_9 Member Posts: 2,440
    Or Weatherhead School at Case Western

    This is one I had my fingers in (not full design authority but did some of the calculations about seven years ago) when at BR+A, my previous employer:

    http://weatherhead.case.edu/

    Another Frank Gehry creation. The front looks tame; the bulk of it looks like a piece of crumpled paper. In person you really wonder....

    And yes, there were challenges in calculations. Define "wall" for me would you? :)
  • Dan_15
    Dan_15 Member Posts: 388


    Interesting place--the interior of the Peter B. Lewis building has barely a right angle in sight.

    http://weatherhead.case.edu/lewis/views.cfm#

    I cant imagine where to start to calculate the cubic volume of the interior spaces.
  • Brad White_9
    Brad White_9 Member Posts: 2,440
    Peter B. Lewis

    You are spot-on. I forgot the sponsoring donor, shame on me..

    When I heard of that tragic lone gunman a year or so after completion and referencing CWRU, I just knew it had to be this building. No easy way to take the guy out given the sight angles.

    My suggestion to calculate the volume was go go ahead and finish the building and fill it with water, then meter it as it was drained. My idea was vetoed for reasons not quite clear to me :)

    We actually used a 3-D modelling program but in the end struck an average at various slices of the building. The R values were good. Lead coated or terne-plate sheathing made life interesting for the condensation projections.
  • Christian Egli_2
    Christian Egli_2 Member Posts: 812
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Just shove a nice cast iron radiator in there somewhere and it will pretty everything up. Still, my hat is off to all the people who put the building together.

    Not content with its Aronoff Center which is just crystallized -not melted- cubes, here is what has been in my local news. Something about neighbors being or not being upset at what this artistic rendition of a home might be. It was touted as being worth a cool million.

    It's called the Mushroom house, look at the pictures, you're not hallucinating!

    http://www.agilitynut.com/h/treehouse.html

    http://www.makecincinnatiweird.com/content/view/27//

    Here is the Aronoff center

    http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/aronoff/
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