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I've always loved the mondrian pattern, though I actually didn't know what it was called until today. I first saw it on those 60s YSL dresses and callme did their step by step PV in similar dresses, which brought it back to mind a few years ago.
A few days ago I was looking at the minimalistic office one of Kamen Rider Build's villain's uses and I thought a few Mondrian-esque art pieces strewn around would really elevate the whole look.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/woman-renovates-greyhound-bus-chic-tiny-home-now/story?id=55999692
Yeah, the extent to which we depend on these infrastructure services isn't apparent until we lose access to them.
Plus I've mentioned my love of the most agoraphobic wide-open spaces and I stick to that. I think a wonderful use of this sort of style in a city-setting is the Humphrey loft from Gossip Girl. I mean, there are sets that employ the whole concept better like the Van der Woodsen apartment, but this one really impressed me because it manages to not be trying for high-concept impersonal.
http://rtalbert.org/designing-the-future-faculty-office/
Magic furniture and windows seem like the sort of thing I would never appreciate.
Re: Faculty Offices. I guess I feel like they work as they are, but maybe they could be better. This whole roaming employee thing reminds me of an episode of W1A where people kept overbooking the only non-ridiculous looking areas of the BBC Building.
I mean, we always start work with a blank page, I'm not sure starting with a blank page in the shape of three vaguely interconnected triangles that encourage you to start from the middle of said page will help at all.
For example:
This solution is literally even more of a problem than the way stuff is done now, which immediately puts a damper on it.
Also:
Is this a real thing? Like, has this person met people? This sounds ridiculous. I mean, nobody has a bed in their office, and if they do they should not. If any of this bit were true, it would have to do more with the personality of the professor, and this is all just a fancy way of walking around genuine personality issues.
I'm so very confused, do they not have faculty-exclusive common areas in America?
>faculty offices shouldn't be like bedrooms
>design a literal bedroom
No, everything about this is wrong. Like, even if you remove the weird height of everything, it's kind of vaguely disturbing in a #wegetit #inwiththekids way.
Also, these colour schemes feel off. They're very cold, yet there's supposed to be an emphasis on being warm and inviting?
As for these, the warmer common room spaces look good. That orange/purple colour scheme is great, but that furniture piece is a nightmare from shapes 101. In the image next to it, the lighter blues work really well, but they could benefit from incorporating the blue from that one ladies' top into the overall design, but not so much that it's childish.
The next image is too house-ey, which is what this whole design philosophy is against. In fact, a lot of these are very much just ripping off House & Home Magazine and it feels like somehow that would be detrimental to learning. There's a lot of light, which maybe is good depending on the science but as a person who spends a lot of time on campus I feel it's slightly distracting.
The next office I like is the one with the cactus, but there's a disorganized theme to it I don't appreciate.
Why are all these chairs 20 feet off the ground. How do you get in them without looking like an flailing menace.
There's also the whole 'hearing overlap' these seem to encourage. Some guy's giving a bit of a lecture or hosting a meeting, and you're trying to have a conversation like 90cm away. It's not going to work.
Anyways; thanks GMH. This was fun.
The same could be said of every room with a sofa.
That's an adjustable height table. I'd like this room a lot because I want an adjustable height table. I can sit or stand while working, as I desire. Also changes the angle at which I perceive the room too.
There just isn't any natural lighting in this (CG-simulated) room, though.
I was thinking, that seems like a curious little place where I can hole up in an otherwise large room.
Which "ladies' top"? None of the ladies are wearing blue in this picture.
I actually dislike coffee tables because they can't be used viably as temporary desks.
I actually really like well-lit spaces. Look at the fourth picture here, for example -- I'd love this office for the giant window and the light streaming in.
They're there so you can sit when your legs get tired.
Agreed.
You're welcome!
Yellow, I meant yellow <_<
That looks great, but it's very controlled light. It streams in from one wall, and is balanced out by the warm colours of the rest of the room.
That sofa looks like it was designed with the explicit intention of being used as a bed sometimes.
I mean, yeah that's a good thing! But like... not in that shape, it's too much.
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=60715541 a room within a room?
The second one just looks like closets.
Meanwhile, I've really been into saturated blue palettes complemented with deep orange. Ex. This, this and this.
well it's less likely to be an eyesoreThen again, there was that website I entered, and after a good while of mildly agreeing with the hate-on for modern architecture I slowly began to figure out it's run by some alt-right neo-Nazi and I probably should backtrack on principle.
But yeah. Kinda feels more in place. At least, as long as it's the right kind of vernacular. You can find "traditional" highland architecture about anywhere in the country.
I feel like this makes sense on principle, since the one thing authoritarians love to do is hate art and inefficiency.
But there is a sense of art-before-smarts when it comes to architecture sometimes. In my brief experience with architecture (almost all from my time watching The Great British Interior Design Challenge) I found the commercial art-deco style buildings and demand-driven buildings of the early British town very appealing. Part of that was because of their practicality.
There are a few good ideas that come out of thinking out of the box, especially when it comes to making buildings more green, but I can't say I understand the value of a really weirdly shaped museum aside from trying to lure people in after they take selfies in front of it.
Also, reminds me of our Air Conditioning professor telling us that our job was to stop architects from daydreaming about impractical designs.
An acquaintance of mine worked in some German institute. The institute was moving to a new building. The dean took a look at the project, years of doing physics clicked in, and he's like, all these glass walls will make it hot as fuck in summer. The architect, no no, it's fine, I've calculated the effect, don't worry.
It was hot as fuck.
The architect: guess I made a small mistake, lol kthxbye
Best part is that since the dude has intellectual property rights, they couldn't even cover it, because that would be a change in design and he didn't like it.
The story ended like you could expect, that they went to courts over it while air conditioning worked at full power to at least mitigate the heat, but I don't know the outcome.
(ed reason: typo)
But especially the part about just not being able to admit they were wrong.
I wonder if homes (haha, "homes") like this are why the abomination that is microwave sponge-cake is a thing.
How can you even have a Murphy bed in this tiny spaceless thing? How does it even fit?
Somebody is probably self-isolating in one of these right now, so spare a few thoughts for them.
I have a feeling that doing lots of LEGO Friends Indoor Builds prepared me for this nonsense.
A classic design.
Let's brighten up the
placepage!I like the wall color, and the lighting that goes with it. The painting on the wall is brilliant, but I could do without some of the flourishes (toy car, Rhino statue).