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Building Dialogue
Me… I’m wierd. My land is a hillside, and a steep one at that. My original house designs were staggered into the hillside, but I switched to a cantilevered structure for aesthetic reasons.
But the building does, I think, encroach on my neighbour Larkum Woodget. Actually, it did; that’s why I don’t have a full-width balcony running across the front of the dang thing. Realistically, my section is about 20 from front to back, and I’m unsure if I really need all that sprawling width!
Given the current success of my gallery redesign, I’ve been rethinking my home rebuild from something Wide to something Tall. I am very serious about building on the ground, with an entrance, and for this reason: staying in dialogue with everyone else in Spinach, Ochreous and elsewhere.
Like I said: I’m wierd. I like being able to see my neighbours’ buildings. And if I want absolute isolation, there’s my skybox.
I also want people to know I exist, and while willing to be friendly, do wish to exert control over what you may learn. My home in Spinach, then, has:
- A “public-public” area — a deck with deckchairs and spa pool where anyone can visit;
- A “public-private” area — the house proper, where I can entertain visitors in the ersatz privacy of four walls, but passers-by can still observe if not enter;
- A “private-private” area — the skybox. Inaccessible except by invitation.
As such, the current craze is towards a three-storey structure, with the entrance at the bottom and increasingly deep rooms up top. Examining Wikipedia for the “Golden Ratio” (1.618:1 to 4 significant figures) landed me a width of about 9.2m for a height of 15m, or 5m between floors. This matches with the way I have divided the top floor into thirds: 10m x 17m “rooms”.
The challenge is really to work out how to integrate this monolith into the hillside’s shape without leaving feelings of cramp. Also, it’s not as if I need huge amounts of space, or furnishings. Currently I foresee a small foyer, then a sitting room, with a larger living space up top with all the fun stuff. Heavens only know how I’ll design the thing, or what I’ll decorate it with, but it should be interesting.
Posted in Second Life (Op-Ed,) by Martien Pontecorvo 22/08/07 09:41 AM
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