The Architecture Thread

[UnnamedPlayer]

Oven on the floor? Do you mean a combined oven and cooktop? If so, I guess my kitchen is awful.

You are correct, on both counts...

 

[sugarbutch]

Aren't you a sweetheart!

 

[Loathing]

My oven is wall-mounted, but I thought the vast majority of ovens are combined with stoves and hence positioned on the floor. Especially traditional ovens like AGAs, but also super-premium modern ovens and everything in between.

I can't comprehend any particular reasons for hating any kitchen without a wall-mounted oven.

 

[js4design]



My oven is wall-mounted, but I thought the vast majority of ovens are combined with stoves and hence positions on the floor. Especially traditional ovens like AGAs, but also super-premium modern ovens and everything in between.

I can't comprehend any particular reasons for hating any kitchen without a wall-mounted oven.

Unbridled pretension?

 

[ethanm]

I can't comprehend any particular reasons for hating any kitchen without a wall-mounted oven.

A bad back?

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

I'm not on the 'I hate everything that isn't ideal' kitchen train, but I think the continuous countertop and drawers under the cabinet do look better than when they are interrupted by the stove. That being said, the built in stove does not work in every application.

 

[jeffd]

You can do a built in oven under a separate cooktop, if you prefer the continuous countertop look. I prefer to do both actually - a range along with a wall oven/microwave tower. That way you get the wall oven for convenience, but you also get the full-sized oven under the cooktop for when you need it. Also gives a place for the microwave, since it's a bit troublesome to place when you do a double wall oven.

 

[sugarbutch]

Case House
Sapporo, Japan
Jun Igarashi Architects

 

[sugarbutch]

Wall of Nishihara
Shibuya, Tokyo
Masanori Kuwabara, Sabaoarch

 

[Kaplan]



Case House
Sapporo, Japan
Jun Igarashi Architects

Not sure if it's just the photography, but I'm getting a cramped sensation from most of the spaces in that house. I need a Hero to explain why it's awesome.

 

[sugarbutch]

I'm not sure it is awesome. It is interesting, though. But you may be right that it's cramped.

 

[Hayward]

This one view is enough to give one nightmares.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

A lot to like about the case house, though plenty to nitpick as well. I hate the graduating facade, it would be a real sexpot if they had done them all the same. Also, in a house that tiny, I can't see a purpose for more than one spiral staircase, it just seems overwhelming with two of them. I think they could have gotten from one landing to the other in another way.

Call me a Luddite, but making room for the TV in a set of built in bookcases makes me shake my head.

 

[sugarbutch]



Call me a Luddite, but making room for the TV in a set of built in bookcases makes me shake my head.

Why? You can't use the same room to read a book and watch television?

 

[lefty]

Took a look at this place a few weeks ago.

66 acres. Have to hike to get in. No water or electricity.

Cabin amenities include: Living Room with wraparound windows, Sleeping Loft, Bathroom with composting toilet, Camp Kitchen with pantry and dish storage | cistern supplied sink | bottled water hand pump | cooler/bench, Vermont Casting high-efficiency wood stove with interior wood storage as well as exterior dry wood storage, Security shutters protecting all openings for peace-of-mind while you are away, a porch deck, bluestone pavers, and an outdoor cooking firepit with handmade timber benches.













lefty