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FOLLY—THE VI EH FROM NOWHERE
by Escher GuneWardena
DEC 6,2009-FEB 28,2010 | MOCA PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER
Organized by Los Angeles-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena, Foily-The Wen- from Nowhere revolves around a site-specific folly of Escher GuneWardena's own design and surveys a broad selection of these structures from around the world, ranging frnm the Pantheon at Stourhead in Wiltshire, England, to Lucy the Elephant in Margate, N.J., and Bernard Tschumi's Park de la Villette in Paris, France.
Folly-lhe View from Nowhere is made possible by endowment support from The Ron BurKle Endowment for Architecture and Design Programs. The exhibition is sponsored by Dwell. Generous support for мои Pacific Design Center is provided by Charles S. Cohen.
Construction of the folly is generously provided by d + con. Design Plus Construction. General Contractors, Los Angeles.
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Process This
We love to break down the intricate steps that go into making our favorite furniture, products, prefabs, and more. Increase your industrial-manufacturing IQ with this slideshow showcasing our favorite Process articles from the past. dwell.com/process-this
Speak for the Trees
When it comes to building or renovating a house, one of the most important things to consider is the provenance of the materials—particularly in regards to sourcing responsibly harvested hardwoods. Help us build out our map of distributors that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council at dwell.com/spea k-for-the-trees.
I like the idea of modular, container-
based, and recycled living spaces. The article on the Freeman-Feldmann House ("The Shipping Muse," October 2009} had me wondering, however, how the obvious problems of metal walls—insulation, condensation, and acoustics—had been solved. While metal is surely among the most conductive materials, it also tends to collect humidity rather than dispersing it. And as anybody who has ever hooked up two cans by a string knows, metal containers are the most acoustically sensitive instruments. How did the designers deal with reverberation? Derek Weiler New York, New York
Editors' Note: Katie Nichols, developer of the Freeman-Feldmann House and cofounder of Numen Developments, offers this information:
"The house was insulated using Super Therm (spicoetings.com), a ceramic coating that can be applied just like paint (though it is thicker than normal paint). It was sprayed onto the exterior surfaces of the containers and greatly reduces the heat load that forms in the steel walls of the container. This is a key concern in green building, as you want to avoid creating the need for additional cooling.
"We have not had any problems with condensation at this house. In a colder climate, you would need to install a vapor barrier on the interior wall as a final layer before your cladding.
"We also have not seen excessive reverberation. We attribute this to the interior cladding and the fact that the containers are largely connected by structural insulated panels (SIPs) and other nonmetal materials."
I so admire your magazine, but how about giving painters recognition when you caption the photographs of interiors? On page 93 of "The Right Track" (October 2009), you do not identify the artist of the large, interesting painting hanging on the wall of the living room. The high artistic quality of the magazine would be enhanced by artwork recognition, in the opinion of this reader and painter. Holly Cohn Sent via email
YOU START WITH AN IDEA.
FHitnrs' Nntp- peter Cohen tells us he purchased the painting in question over 40 years ago from a painter named Willard Tangen. The painting is dated 1957. The rectangular work hanging in the Cohen's dining room, on page 89 of the article, is a collage that Peter's son Paul created to celebrate Peter's 75th birthday. Paul, who lives in Seattle, collected linoleum from local homes being torn down and used the pieces to create the collage.
I'd like to know what the siding is on the house in Ellsworth, Maine, featured in your October 2009 issue ("The Right Track") and the siding on the House on the Hill in the "Houses We Love" section of the same issue. Any details would be appreciated. J. Tapley Sent via email
Editor.sltloiej The walls of the Maison Amtrak in Ellsworth are made of structural insulated panels [SIPs) covered with dry-wall on the interior and Texture 1-11 Douglas-fir plywood on the exterior. The House on the Hill is clad with corrugated weathering steel and the roof is made of Galvalume. You can learn more about the latter project at Gates Merkulova Architects' website, gmarch,com.
The Brick Weave House ("Brick By Brick," October 2009) is a fine home overshadowed by a shallow fashion shoot and home staging that rings of design wannabes. The shameless product placement of cool stuff (like coordinating orange Harley-Davidson parts strewn around the living room, Apple laptops, books stacked like trophies, dueling Mies and Eames chairs, multiple wardrobe changes) is tiresome and cliched. Do true gearheads really work on their motorcycles in the living room? Please, Scott Huebner Asheville, North Carolina
THE BEGINNING IT BOUNCES
Editors' Note; Photo edftor Amy Silber-man, who oversees the art direction for our feature photo shoots, explains our photography process:
"When Dwell was founded, we wanted to represent how real people live in their homes. That poticy has not changed, and
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we work hard to stay true to this, whether it manifests as laundry piled on an ironing board, kids' toys all over the place, or as a very neat and clean home in which the homeowner takes his motorcycle apart in the living room. Just as we don't want residents to clean up and put flowers on the table for us when we come to their homes for a shoot, we don't want them to mess up their house and act more casually than they normally would, either. We don't use stylists, and nothing is brought into the homes except for photography equipment.
"In the same way that a writer tells a story with the personal flair of the way in which he wields his pen, a photographer inserts his own vision and style into the images he captures. Gregg Segal, who photographed the Brick Weave House, does shoot with a fashion-minded feel.
"To capture the photos, our photographers ask homeowners to re-create what they do in their daily lives. If they make peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches for lunch, he takes a photo of that. If they prepare foie gras and host a dinner party every Saturday, he takes a photo of that. David Hernandez does, in fact, work on his motorcycles throughout the house, including quite often in his living room, and when Segal asked Hernandez if he could work on one so he could capture that regular routine, Hernandez set up on the rug and started tinkering. All of the books you saw were shot as they were when Segal arrived at the home. The computers belong to the residents, as do all of the furnishings. Though it might seem as though the photos were staged, we assure you that they were not."
In response to "Lowering the Bar" in "Modern Real Estate 101"(0ctober 2009), it is the writer who is wrong, not the neighborhood in question, B-Bar-H Ranch.
I'm no expert on modern architecture, but I do know what I like. I live in one of the new B-Bar-H Ranch homes near Palm Springs, which is considered modern: clean lines, concrete floors, modern fixtures, flat roof, and a large expanse of glass that lets in natural
had to ask myself why I'd want to spend so much more on a 40-year-old house with less square footage and less energy efficiency. I also like that I have lovely mountain views, peace and quiet, clean air, my own pool, and room for my dog to run in my large backyard. There aren't many Californians at my income level that can say the same.
My neighborhood of modern homes exists because the developer found affordable land in a neighborhood that had been subdivided back in the 1940s and then abandoned. The reason the land was still available and affordable is simple: wind. It is windy about 20 percent of the time, but it's a small price to pay for what I consider living in paradise.
I moved to my Modern Living Spaces home at the B-Bar-H Ranch to get away from smog, traffic, crime, crowded living conditions, and condo associations. I think I've done pretty well on all counts. I can't walk to Starbucks from here, but who cares? Not everyone
a home, honey could be collected, and children from the community could learn about honeybees and what fascinating creatures they are. The intention of the project was to bring back a sense of community in individuals' lives, reuse our history, and provide a home for the bees. After reading "Hive Design," I wanted
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to pass along my project to show that even college students are thinking about our future and the bees. Kristy Krone San Francisco, California
Editors'. Note: Visit dwell.com/articles/ rev i vi ng-n eutra -with-hive-living.html to read about and see images of Krone's proposed project, the Apiary.
It is puzzling for a magazine that covers architecture to ignore site specificity; I refer specifically to "Hoagies' Heroes" (September 2009). H Street NE in Washington, DC, is an impoverished neighborhood that needs a grocery store, a clinic, and
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light I also like that my home is affordable. Neither the mortgage nor the utility bills are anywhere near what I'd be paying for a similar house anywhere else in Southern California. I considered buying a mid-century fixer but
wants the urban experience that the author of "Modern Real Estate 101" seems to be promoting as the only "sustainable" way to live. I work from my home so I can choose to live wherever I want to. I chose well. Ernest Nylander Desert Hot Springs, California
I read the "Hive Design" (September 2009) article about the honeybees at Toronto's Fairmont Royal York Hotel with interest. I recently graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a bachelor of fine arts degree in interior design. For my thesis project,
I worked with Dion Neutra, repurpos-ing a housing community that Richard Neutra designed in the late 1940s into a cohousing-inspired community.
The project was called the Apiary, because I was inspired by honeybees: the way they live, the way they interact, and their colors. On the property, the community would tend to an actual apiary. The bees could have
schools. Taylor Gourmet brings the same tired speculative real-estate-flip formula to a neighborhood that has real residents with real problems. It sticks out like a sore thumb with its generic mod style and shelves of expensive olive oils and sauces. At least your photographs told the real story: Inside were NWers who drove in for the tough urban experience; outside were puzzled residents carrying groceries from another area looking in at a place they can't afford. Surely it matters whether a building is relevant in its environment.
Taylor Gourmet will only make money the way every other small DC speculator does: live-in renovation, a sale as soon as the market allows, rinse, repeat. By city regulations, ground floors of main-drag buildings must be businesses. I hope you didn't think they were really in it for the sandwiches. Patrick Shepard Washington, DC1>
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Editors' Note: Aaron Bntt— Dwell editor, former DC resident, and author of the article—offers this response:
"Although I agree that И Street NE is in need of far more than a sandwich shop, i have to disagree about Casey Patten and David Mazza not caring about their surroundings or their sandwiches, I've been in several times and spoken with them many more and found them to be genuine guys who aim to stick around and be a part of slowly bringing H Street out of its funk. Clearly, we at Dwell liked the design of the place, but more importantly, we liked the story of two young scruffy guys truly investing in an overlooked part of town,
"You certainly have a point about a building taking into account its context, but two guys opening a sandwich shop can hardly be blamed for the lack of a grocery store or clinic in the neighborhood. It took a critical mass of folks moving into Columbia Heights before the new Giant grocery store or any of the other (admittedly gruesome) retail went in there. We're not suggesting that H Street remake itself into the garish shopping mall that the Columbia Heights Metro stop has become; but for a neighborhood to turn around, there needs to be investment from small businesses as well as from the city. Patten and Mazza are taking part in the Great Streets Initiative that DC is rolling out to try to revive H Street. And far from being a pair of exploitative gentrifiers, these two love where they live and aim to stay there."
The "Like a Rock" section of "Products 101" (September 2009) notes that geoprene is made from limestone "primarily made up of the ancient shells of marine organisms " As limestone needs to be located, mined (with explosives and heavy equipment), shipped, and heavily processed to make a product, the production of Matuse's geoprene suit most likely uses as much or even more oil than the petroleum-based neoprene suits. Can geoprene suits really be considered environmentally friendly just because the mineral-based suit lasts longer and keeps the user warmer at lower temperatures? Cs35
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Editors' Mote: We asked Mat use Wetsuits' founding partner, president, and CEO John Campbell to answer your question: "When it comes to an eco-friendly
wetsuit, the best kind is essentially the one that the customers don't buy. The world population continues to grow. The correlating increase in consumption is and always will be our biggest environmental challenge. Therefore, when
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it comes to branded consumer products, the goal is to make a great item that is durable and long lasting.
"For wetsuits, consumers demand four main characteristics: warmth, flexibility, durability, and comfort. With geoprene. we can easily achieve all of these. And due to geoprene's significantly higher water impermeability (98 percent versus 65 to 69 percent}. Mat use wetsuits maintain their intended utility for a longer period of time. Our customers get better value for their money, use the products longer, and ultimately cause less wasted biomass—at the raw-material level— because they are consuming less (not to mention they aren't chucking suits into the trash can as quickly).
"Many wetsuit companies are investigating and making their best effort to establish a long-term recycling program, but until that happens on a broad-scale level, the most worthwhile environmental effort for every wetsuit company to pursue is building the best possible product out of the best possible materials that are currently available."
Thank you for having such a great publication and being our favorite choice for "house porn." When we were first introduced to Dwell a number of years ago there was an article about someone who had erected a large screen in front of their house to hide it. I seem to recall they had images of trees placed on the screen so that when you looked at their house from afar, it hid behind the screen and blended into the surrounding foliage.
At our home, we are surrounded by deciduous trees, and we would love to find out more about this house-screen product so we too can blend into the landscape, especially in the winter. I have searched dwell.com and the Internet for "house screen" or "camouflage" but to no avail. If you have any insight or can refer us back to the issue in which this home was featured, we would be most appreciative. Christy Madson
Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia
FHitorc' Mntp1 Designers and residents Hans Murman and Ulla Alberts printed photographs of juniper trees on plastic netting and then wrapped the netting around their house in Gotland, Sweden. The house was part of the "Outdoor Odyssey" story in our September 2007 issue. Back issues are available—call 866-565-8551 for details.
COMPROMISE AND COMPLACENCY,
We're huge fans of Dwell, especially of the stories where you show the before and after of a project, so much so we decided to do one ourselves.
There was a mid-century-modern flat-roofed house near where we lived that we'd admired for a while. When it came time for us to move, we contacted the owners about buying it. It turned out that he was 91, she was 88, and they had built the house in 1957. They raised their four children in it and saved every last piece of paperwork, including a list they typed for their architect in 1956 describing what they wanted in a house. They agreed to sell, and at the closing, they gave us a blessing, telling us: "We wouldn't have done one thing differently. This house brought us 51 years of joy, and we hope it gives you the same," There wasn't a dry eye in the room.
We had the whole place painted white inside and out and put cork floors throughout. Herman Miller agreed to custom-make some Eames classics for us. We couldn't be happier.
Thank you for inspiring us, showing us what's possible, and telling such great stories. Rob and Kristen Bell Grand Rapids, Michigan
Correction: In the Sourcing section of our December/January 2010 issue, we misspelled the website

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