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a little archi/design blog

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Also!!!!!

I’ve been in the south all year and from spending so much time outdoors this year, I damn well know this area could be a prime place for growing building materials. Hempcrete, mycelium based things, kenaf fiber, compressed earth blocks even! The climate and the land is here for it. I know these aren’t super widely used things in the North America, but I mean, why not?

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I need to see more mixed income housing projects. In my mind, they always look like tiny towns, but obviously they wouldn’t need to. Idk I just think that there needs to be more action to prevent so many neighborhoods from becoming exclusive enclaves that push people out. And that stuff needs to happen with the community, not to it. So..endless questions obviously and listening sessions talking about what people want changed or preserved or saved, right? Too anti-displacement? Are there non profits that help people plan helpful, accessible, and safer communities? There’s gotta be, but it’s too late for me to rabbit hole about it.

Also:

Building preservation options?

Community storm shelters?

And if cellulose insulation is good(another thing I’ll have to look into), there should definitely be more paper recycling happening, right? Or paper donation or some place offering to buy x amount for x amount of money(that could be a whole event itself).

I think I’d be a really good specs package maker person. Is there a name for that? I’m about to start talking about parks again.

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My favorite house on earth is for sale right now. I’d be sadder if it weren’t in such a shit area in that town. It’s walking distance for a lot of great things and all block parties happen one street up, aaaand it’s right by the local theaters, but good luck not getting annoyed by loud ass trucks, “outside” dogs, and drunk fights all night.

It was purple when I was a kid and if I bought it, it would go back to purple. It was also converted into 2 apartments at some point when I was little too. The yard you see is all the yard you get also😬

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There is this old cluster of buildings for sale near here and I’m pretty sure it used to be a motel-ish thing? Or efficiencies maybe?

The shape is like this and each building has two doors to separate rooms and the front center building was definitely a “front office”. Every time I see it, I think someone needs to buy it and turn it into tiny houses! Remove one of the 2 doors and expand the interior, right?

Expand the front office building for laundry? The front section being turned into a free shop or something like that. Perhaps a food pantry?

(All the little buildings have flat roof porches but I forgot to draw them in the first pic) Anyway, I want someone to do that. Every single time I see it, I’m renovating it in my mind lol

There is a fence along the back of it, and I’m not sure what’s behind it, but there are a lot of trees. I imagine someone doing a mural on that fence though and adding a lot of (useful) plants.

And if not tiny houses, it could definitely be turned into a space for many different resources.

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I mean, or they could be totally opened up and used as a marketplace(farmers or flea) or they could be rented out for pop up events or something. Like the potential is irritating me.

And I got the shape wrong. There are 3 on each side and one building in the back. They all have 2 doors aside from 2 of the buildings, which have 3. And I could have sworn about the porches, but they just have little covered areas lol

And looking at the front office building, it definitely wouldn’t need expanded. It looked short from the road.

These are what the buildings look like though

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I know nobody cares, but I passed them again today and why couldn’t they be used for rentable space? Outside of the marketplace stuff I mentioned before, I really think they’d be great to host small art events for all ages(for individuals or groups or even schools. Though parking would definitely be an issue)I get mad every time I see them now. I’m not sure why no one is seeing the potential in them.

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I feel like I’ve made this post before, but Architizer is like pornography to me omg I love it sooooo much.

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Plz I’m so weak for green and yellow houses

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I fuck with this heavily

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Carlo Scarpa/1970s

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Still thinking about the tiny house property idea I recently posted about and since I’m a nature lover, I’ve also been trying to think of a way to incorporate that. A few things:

1. Exterior(duh) nesting pockets for birds.

2. The back building could have a green wall that focuses on butterflies or bats? Or some kind of insect hotel?

3. I keep thinking about how the property is a U shape and there is plenty of parking space in the front, so if there was a walking path built in the U part, could it incorporate moss? I’ve notice moss grows WILDLY here.

4. And if those buildings were renovated, could it be done in more of an earth-ship way??

5. Also, if not turned into a tiny home community, what about daycare gardens?

6. Anyway, I do like the idea of a vertical herb garden as well. The property gets A LOT of sun.

7. And is it gross for some of the flooring(for some reason I keep thinking bathroom) to be made of laminated glass or structural grade tempered glass?😬 Would possibly seeing worms and bugs creep people out?

8. I know I mentioned a mural for the(now nonexistent) fence, but I’m also wondering if the fence could serve as a space for mushroom growing. Also, the back of the front office could be for the mural anyway.

9. Speaking of the front office, I thought of more ideas for it. A well lit, secure, always accessible indoor board plus phone charging station? But that more for the public also and not just the residents. Maybe solar powered though.

10. Free seed bank? Quarter machine with seed bombs in it?

11. A Last Chance Fridge where people can donate/share perishables. These ideas would be job creation and frequent use of that office, which I think is good.

It’s really turned into a mini version of my dream mall idea lol

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There is this old cluster of buildings for sale near here and I’m pretty sure it used to be a motel-ish thing? Or efficiencies maybe?

The shape is like this and each building has two doors to separate rooms and the front center building was definitely a “front office”. Every time I see it, I think someone needs to buy it and turn it into tiny houses! Remove one of the 2 doors and expand the interior, right?

Expand the front office building for laundry? The front section being turned into a free shop or something like that. Perhaps a food pantry?

(All the little buildings have flat roof porches but I forgot to draw them in the first pic) Anyway, I want someone to do that. Every single time I see it, I’m renovating it in my mind lol

There is a fence along the back of it, and I’m not sure what’s behind it, but there are a lot of trees. I imagine someone doing a mural on that fence though and adding a lot of (useful) plants.

And if not tiny houses, it could definitely be turned into a space for many different resources.

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I mean, or they could be totally opened up and used as a marketplace(farmers or flea) or they could be rented out for pop up events or something. Like the potential is irritating me.

And I got the shape wrong. There are 3 on each side and one building in the back. They all have 2 doors aside from 2 of the buildings, which have 3. And I could have sworn about the porches, but they just have little covered areas lol

And looking at the front office building, it definitely wouldn’t need expanded. It looked short from the road.

These are what the buildings look like though

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There is this old cluster of buildings for sale near here and I’m pretty sure it used to be a motel-ish thing? Or efficiencies maybe?

The shape is like this and each building has two doors to separate rooms and the front center building was definitely a “front office”. Every time I see it, I think someone needs to buy it and turn it into tiny houses! Remove one of the 2 doors and expand the interior, right?

Expand the front office building for laundry? The front section being turned into a free shop or something like that. Perhaps a food pantry?

(All the little buildings have flat roof porches but I forgot to draw them in the first pic) Anyway, I want someone to do that. Every single time I see it, I’m renovating it in my mind lol

There is a fence along the back of it, and I’m not sure what’s behind it, but there are a lot of trees. I imagine someone doing a mural on that fence though and adding a lot of (useful) plants.

And if not tiny houses, it could definitely be turned into a space for many different resources.

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I found out today that Niki Architects has a big group of haters. Couldn’t be me. I love their work forever.

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Paul Rudolph's Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina - a lost brutalist masterpiece - demolished just last year

a major location in Douglas Trumbull's troubled sci-fi film, BRAINSTORM

Paul Rudolph's Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina faces demolition

Preservationists are fighting to save Paul Rudolph's Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina, one of his "most significant projects",