Comments on: The King Residence by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/26/the-king-residence-by-john-friedman-alice-kimm-architects/ Contemporary Modern Architecture Furniture Lighting Interior Design Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: { kat } http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/26/the-king-residence-by-john-friedman-alice-kimm-architects/#comment-287303 { kat } Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:47:06 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/?p=6029#comment-287303 too many cubbyholes for my taste! however, i like that they are angled, giving different dimensions and linear thicknesses. gorgeous use of direct and indirect windows/natural lighting. too many cubbyholes for my taste! however, i like that they are angled, giving different dimensions and linear thicknesses.

gorgeous use of direct and indirect windows/natural lighting.

]]> By: Doug http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/26/the-king-residence-by-john-friedman-alice-kimm-architects/#comment-284132 Doug Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:31:49 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/?p=6029#comment-284132 Clean and well detailed interiors. Quirky but livable and yet vaguely familiar. This is a commendable design on how to site a house in an existing neighborhood. The play on the hangout wing with the main volume, as if it had been cut from the roof and extruded, is brilliant. As the landscape grows in around the street corner it will seat quite nicely and provide a certain level of public interaction and at a comfortable human scale. This public private interaction is so often under appreciated and missing in residential architecture. I think the home owners as well as the neighbors will enjoy that they resisted thoroughly walling the site in visually with hardscape. Well done all round. Clean and well detailed interiors. Quirky but livable and yet vaguely familiar. This is a commendable design on how to site a house in an existing neighborhood. The play on the hangout wing with the main volume, as if it had been cut from the roof and extruded, is brilliant.

As the landscape grows in around the street corner it will seat quite nicely and provide a certain level of public interaction and at a comfortable human scale. This public private interaction is so often under appreciated and missing in residential architecture. I think the home owners as well as the neighbors will enjoy that they resisted thoroughly walling the site in visually with hardscape.

Well done all round.

]]> By: Tere http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/26/the-king-residence-by-john-friedman-alice-kimm-architects/#comment-283640 Tere Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:19:24 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/?p=6029#comment-283640 I loled at the word 'later' by the bed. I loled at the word ‘later’ by the bed.

]]> By: Chris http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/26/the-king-residence-by-john-friedman-alice-kimm-architects/#comment-283029 Chris Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:39:11 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/?p=6029#comment-283029 I really like the permeability of the house, more in the sense of the "punctures" that are the skylights that let the sunlight into the house. I understand the derivation of the reversing of the typology of a normal house, but I guess personally I just don't like how the overall form of the building turned out. I love the spaces within, especially with the wood wrapping itself throughout the house, but the street views are not that convincing to me. Cool ideas/concepts though! I really like the permeability of the house, more in the sense of the “punctures” that are the skylights that let the sunlight into the house. I understand the derivation of the reversing of the typology of a normal house, but I guess personally I just don’t like how the overall form of the building turned out. I love the spaces within, especially with the wood wrapping itself throughout the house, but the street views are not that convincing to me. Cool ideas/concepts though!

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