This is the chalet that our group has been staying in for the last week:
We've been calling it a tree house. It is 5 levels in total. And you circulate through the house using a spiral staircase in the center of it. It's space efficient, but there are a lot of stairs.
The site is downhill from the road, which, as we have talked about before, creates a more challenging build than uphill from the road.
You enter the chalet on the third level, which itself houses 2 bedrooms. One floor below and one floor above also have 2 bedrooms, meaning there are 6 bedrooms in total. On the lowest floor is an indoor hot tub, a shared parking garage, and a shared ski/snowboard room.
Every mountain house needs, at a minimum, two things: a fireplace and a hot tub. Ideally the latter is outside.
As is typical in the mountains, the main living space is on the top floor (level 5 in this case). You want this for the views. If you're building into a sloping site, the lowest floors are usually somewhat constrained.
We did the same thing with Parkview Mountain House. But it does mean that you circulate through the more "private" spaces within the house before reaching the more "public" ones. This is the opposite of what happens in most homes.
The underground parking garage is accessed by way of a small parking elevator that lowers you down two floors. Initially this seemed excessive, but it is a shared elevator/garage. The chalet is semi-detached chalet, if you will, and so this was probably the only way they could get enough parking on the site. Assuming our attached neighbor is of a similar size, that's 12 bedrooms.
It also creates an important pathway so that people don't need to bring their skis and snowboards through the house.
Every site has its challenges and that is especially the case in the mountains.
I've been assembling a lot of things over the past few weeks, and that got me wondering.
IKEA did not invent the Allen key. Though today, it might feel that way. Canadian Peter L. Robertson first commercialized the square socket in 1908. And in 1909, American Willian G. Allen patented the hex varietal.
Due to an increased interest in interchangeability, hex nuts and keys would go on to become the dominant mode of fastening after World World II. And in English-speaking countries, the name Allen has largely stuck.
This is the chalet that our group has been staying in for the last week:
We've been calling it a tree house. It is 5 levels in total. And you circulate through the house using a spiral staircase in the center of it. It's space efficient, but there are a lot of stairs.
The site is downhill from the road, which, as we have talked about before, creates a more challenging build than uphill from the road.
You enter the chalet on the third level, which itself houses 2 bedrooms. One floor below and one floor above also have 2 bedrooms, meaning there are 6 bedrooms in total. On the lowest floor is an indoor hot tub, a shared parking garage, and a shared ski/snowboard room.
Every mountain house needs, at a minimum, two things: a fireplace and a hot tub. Ideally the latter is outside.
As is typical in the mountains, the main living space is on the top floor (level 5 in this case). You want this for the views. If you're building into a sloping site, the lowest floors are usually somewhat constrained.
We did the same thing with Parkview Mountain House. But it does mean that you circulate through the more "private" spaces within the house before reaching the more "public" ones. This is the opposite of what happens in most homes.
The underground parking garage is accessed by way of a small parking elevator that lowers you down two floors. Initially this seemed excessive, but it is a shared elevator/garage. The chalet is semi-detached chalet, if you will, and so this was probably the only way they could get enough parking on the site. Assuming our attached neighbor is of a similar size, that's 12 bedrooms.
It also creates an important pathway so that people don't need to bring their skis and snowboards through the house.
Every site has its challenges and that is especially the case in the mountains.
I've been assembling a lot of things over the past few weeks, and that got me wondering.
IKEA did not invent the Allen key. Though today, it might feel that way. Canadian Peter L. Robertson first commercialized the square socket in 1908. And in 1909, American Willian G. Allen patented the hex varietal.
Due to an increased interest in interchangeability, hex nuts and keys would go on to become the dominant mode of fastening after World World II. And in English-speaking countries, the name Allen has largely stuck.
They're cheap to make and you get built-in leverage with its longer arm.
IKEA first began using hex keys in the 1960s. Their philosophy was: "You do your part. We do our part. Together we save money." Meaning, you assemble the things yourself. Here's a set of assembly instructions from 1968:
Today, most of us probably take it for granted just how radical of an idea this was. IKEA had smartly figured out that flat packing furniture saved a ton of money for everyone. The challenge was that it then had to get everyone accustomed to putting together their own furniture.
But they more than did that. They arguably ushered in a revolution in furniture. And they did it on the backbone of a simple, yet revolutionary, device that, over a century later, most of us still call an Allen key.
I'm so predictable. This is the kind of house that tends to grab my attention: modern design, relatively small footprint (~7.8m x 12.3m), narrow street (~4m), and panoramic views (of Seoul). But what does it take to actually build a house like this in an urban fabric as dense as Seoul's?
If you read TIUM Architect's description (using Google Translate for those of us who don't speak Korean), you'll see that the house was built out of concrete and steel, but that concrete trucks couldn't stage on the narrow and dead-end street.
So what they ended up having to do was build a 100-meter concrete conveying pipe (~328 feet) and staging somewhere else. It was such a pain in the ass that they only wanted to do this for the foundations. The rest of the house was built out of steel. (I think because of the clear spans that they wanted.)
Sometimes small infill projects aren't as simple as they may seem. In this case, the lot size is 92 m2. The building footprint is 51.53 m2 (56% lot coverage). And the total floor area is 136.52 m2.
Photo: Lee Hanul via ArchDaily
They're cheap to make and you get built-in leverage with its longer arm.
IKEA first began using hex keys in the 1960s. Their philosophy was: "You do your part. We do our part. Together we save money." Meaning, you assemble the things yourself. Here's a set of assembly instructions from 1968:
Today, most of us probably take it for granted just how radical of an idea this was. IKEA had smartly figured out that flat packing furniture saved a ton of money for everyone. The challenge was that it then had to get everyone accustomed to putting together their own furniture.
But they more than did that. They arguably ushered in a revolution in furniture. And they did it on the backbone of a simple, yet revolutionary, device that, over a century later, most of us still call an Allen key.
I'm so predictable. This is the kind of house that tends to grab my attention: modern design, relatively small footprint (~7.8m x 12.3m), narrow street (~4m), and panoramic views (of Seoul). But what does it take to actually build a house like this in an urban fabric as dense as Seoul's?
If you read TIUM Architect's description (using Google Translate for those of us who don't speak Korean), you'll see that the house was built out of concrete and steel, but that concrete trucks couldn't stage on the narrow and dead-end street.
So what they ended up having to do was build a 100-meter concrete conveying pipe (~328 feet) and staging somewhere else. It was such a pain in the ass that they only wanted to do this for the foundations. The rest of the house was built out of steel. (I think because of the clear spans that they wanted.)
Sometimes small infill projects aren't as simple as they may seem. In this case, the lot size is 92 m2. The building footprint is 51.53 m2 (56% lot coverage). And the total floor area is 136.52 m2.
Photo: Lee Hanul via ArchDaily
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