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Interior decorating (pg. 8)
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Skez
I agree with you on some points ******** even though most people will read your post and think wtf. Not to brag, but I've gone through a lot of bitches over the past 6-7 years but there was a time when I went through my "I'm scared of " stage. I used to beat more meat than Rocky Balboa, it was during my first few teenage years. Out of all the women I've dated , I've only met one that came off as a respectful young lady with goals and a good head on her shoulder. I've talked to so many of my friends about their past relationships and they've gone through very similiar bull. Women are natural attention whores and will do anything to get it and then comes the bull. Usually after the first few s they demand too much, like we're engaged or something ? then they bring their whore friends around and I've ed a couple of my ex's friends with ease.
Yeah, I'm a dog with my dick out, but women in general make it so easy. It's worth taking the chance though, but you know you won't meet a woman you can bring home to momma at a club in most cases. I've seen so many guys settle for bitches with ed up pasts and try to change a ho into a housewife. I'd rather beat my dick than settle for that bull, but that's just my 2 cents, what the do I know? |
well said mate. That's pretty much life right there. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
why? |
Because they're visually interesting and stylish but don't look the least bit comfortable or inviting. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Because they're visually interesting and stylish but don't look the least bit comfortable or inviting. |
says one person
i don't find them stylish at all, but completely functional. structure and function/utility are inseparable. function and aesthetic are inseparable.
personally, i need only space and light to make me feel comfortable and invited. i think this is far more powerful than any throw pillow or baseboard.
obviously the second project i posted isn't meant to be comfortable, but it is a project which tries to blur the line between furniture and enclosure/structure. try to understand the implication of that rather than how 'comfortable' it looks.
my point was that 'decoration' is extraneous, bordering on immoral.
check out the essay 'ornament and crime' by adolf loos.
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
says one person
i don't find them stylish at all |
I meant "stylish" in a general sense of "striking."
I dunno, those projects struck me as made more for impressing guests than accomodating residents. Maybe I'm just being an unimaginative philistine.
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
my point was that 'decoration' is extraneous, bordering on immoral. |
I'm not big at all on decoration myself. My point was more that the places in the pictures looked as though they would be awkward to move around in, not that they didn't have enough kitschy wall hangings or soft pillows.
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I'm not big at all on decoration myself. My point was more that the places in the pictures looked as though they would be awkward to move around in, not that they didn't have enough kitschy wall hangings or soft pillows.
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well, the house in kobe is a brilliant design for that reason - the building lot was basically 6 feet wide, and so the architect invented a structural concrete system of layers that allows every piece of furniture, staircase, etc to cantilever from this exterior structural bearing wall, opening up the interior vertically, by removing the need for intermediate girders and columns under the stairs for instance. this makes it an ingenious use of space which is significantly less awkward to move around in than its neighbors, i'm sure.
obviously the second one is more polemical and i posted it more as a brutalist response to 'decoration', where you can't really separate decoration from furniture from structure from enclosure. obviously this particular scheme is not easy to circulate in, but it hardly seems a stretch to think that the concept could be extended to much more functional layouts.
and the mendez da rocha house is extremely open, i mean all of the walls on the left in that interior shot are folding panels which open up the space entirely making it completely configurable.
in these cases, particularly the first, they look 'striking' but it's not the looks alone that is striking, it's the elegance of the architectural solution to a functional problem that makes it 'happen'. in the first case, the concrete slab structural system is not only useful as a structurally sound way to open up the space inside the narrow lot, but it allows for highly configurable layouts, and it makes for great lighting and a level of privacy and intimacy appropriate for the contemporary japanese urban home. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| I actually don't mind the third one all that much, especially the exterior. I would like the indoor part more if the side with the windows had the same wood as the left. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I actually don't mind the third one all that much, especially the exterior. I would like the indoor part more if the side with the windows had the same wood as the left. |
who needs wood on the windows when you have brazilian rainforest on the other side of an unobstructed glass wall? ;) and shading is provided by the concrete cantilevers, as well as drainage. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
I'm sure the view is great, but for me something about the window side just clashes with the other side. Maybe I'd change my mind if I were to walk around in it for a bit.
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I'm sure the view is great, but for me something about the window side just clashes with the other side. Maybe I'd change my mind if I were to walk around in it for a bit.
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yeah, i think you need to look past 'clashing' and more into the visceral experience of space. plus, the left wall folds open...
this room is clearly meant to be experienced as one large space that extends past the membrane of glass to the trees beyond
it's a popular tactic in the modernist tradition since mies van der rohe made this:
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| DJ Damerchi |
nefardec, what kind of bed is that in the last pic? Looks like its great for the back...Id seriously look into getting something similar for my new place.
I think your examples are great, you'd definately induce vomiting after seeing some of the gaudy architecture of the gulf-region housing boom.
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| inconspicuous |
barcelona. they're not exactly comfortable.
you can find replicas all over the place.
and I agree on the impracticality of the wooden house. |
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