Comments on: Prefabricated Bridge House Crosses Creek Sustainably http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/10/prefabricated-bridge-house-crosses-creek-sustainably/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:48:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: StructureHubhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/10/prefabricated-bridge-house-crosses-creek-sustainably/comment-page-1/#comment-165357 StructureHub Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:14:05 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=38555#comment-165357 I admire any architect / client who constructs a creek house. Doing so (1) virtually guarantees a place for creative exploration of solutions to the client's needs, (2) ensures minimal, physical altercations to the land, and, (3) due to the cost premium of building it, may tend to keep square-footage to an amount the client can actually justify - i.e., an amount that isn't wasteful.Come to think of it, I suspect that folks with an anti-modern architecture disposition may tolerate modern creekhouses more than they would any other "normal" modern house. Why? Because they may have an expectation that certain structural aspects of a creekhouse (e.g., steel trusses) would be visible as a matter of practicality, not aesthetics. Just a thought... I admire any architect / client who constructs a creek house. Doing so (1) virtually guarantees a place for creative exploration of solutions to the client’s needs, (2) ensures minimal, physical altercations to the land, and, (3) due to the cost premium of building it, may tend to keep square-footage to an amount the client can actually justify – i.e., an amount that isn’t wasteful.

Come to think of it, I suspect that folks with an anti-modern architecture disposition may tolerate modern creekhouses more than they would any other “normal” modern house. Why? Because they may have an expectation that certain structural aspects of a creekhouse (e.g., steel trusses) would be visible as a matter of practicality, not aesthetics. Just a thought…

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