i may have been outta the business for awhile, but that doesn't mean i can't still recognize pure genius when i come across it.
consider for a moment a minor but vexing problem shared by all architects [because i just know that's why you come here]: namely, how to get rainwater off of and away from your building without fuglifying the design.
you've generally got three choices when it comes to gutters and downspouts: you can (a) hide them in the walls (expensive and problematic); (b) try to find some way to subtly blend them into the facade (usually not very successfully); or (c, and what usually happens) tack 'em on on after the fact and say fuck it.*
or you can do what this guy did (and click if you're really interested--it embiggens nicely):
and get this--when it rains, the whole system becomes a musical instrument. can you even imagine how cool that must be?
back in architecture school, if i heard "if you can't hide it, celebrate it," once, i heard it a thousand goddam times--and now, 25 years later, i finally know what they meant.
[sorry for the left turn into near-respectability this post took, but i'm sure it'll be back to business as usual around here in no time.]
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*then there's option (d): blow off gutters altogether (yeah, it was a disaster when it rained but i didn't care--it was beautiful, goddammit).
5 comments:
Delightful! Thew best possible gutter and rain spout system I've ever seen.
How cool is that?!?..
Just when i thought i couldn't love you any further than i already do..
God, you're such a weirdo..
will: i can't tell you how many slick, high-budget architectural masterpieces i've perused with jaundiced eye over the last twenty-or-so years--none of which moved my needle as did this humble little arrangement of horns and pipes.
yeah, "delightful" is the word.
yhm: yup, and i love you back.
that's fucking *awesome*.
Well...a friend once wished for me something he told me would really only come to fulfillment in my 50s -- a touch of whimsy. This seems to be the fulfillment of architectural whimsy...it is so interesting and alive.
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