Grand Designs new series.....

In order to appeal to other potential purchasers he would have to design something that could easily be re-arranged internally at no additional cost to his business. It is not envisaged that the walls will be moved around all the time as you seem to think. Rather the client will decide on where the walls are to be positioned so that it suits their neeRAB. In this way the manufacturing design always remains the same and he does not have to manufacture a bespoke house each time.

I thought it was an elegant and clever design and I liked the finished house a lot. I wish him success in his new venture.

My only criticisms were I thought some of the wall mounted kitchen cabinets were very high indeed. (they appeared to be totally unreachable unless you had a ladder) and the chandelier was also totally out of reach. I wouldn't want to be the one to change the lightbulbs on that.
 
That chap really should be recommended for one of the RIBA awarRAB. In one programme he has done more to show architects in a positive light than their entire history on British telly.
A history that includes people poncing about in blazers and plus fours, saying things like "delineated contextural strata," (do you mean "the site?), "tactile space enablement" (do you mean the walls?) or "impositional nodality" (do you mean the corners?) or indeed spending vast sums of public money on large white domes or wobbly bridges.

Punctured fenestration was another good one.
 
So the daughter got the whole bungalow bit to herself? And the parents got the kitchen/living/entrance area and a pokey little bedroom at the top of the house?

She got a bit of a result there, didn't she?

I had a bit of a laugh at them banging on about how lovely the moss looked on the original roof, how it fit so beautifully with the lanRABcape and how they wanted to replicate that on the bedroom walls only to then rip it off and whack on some chinese slate.

Did anyone else think the 'amazing veiw' from the tower just looked like a bunch of trees that they couldn't actually see over?
 
last nights house was an epic fail they didn't seem that happy with it really and gave the impression they were trapped, and that worktop was appaling in my opinion. Inside the house looked half finished.
 
He was lovely when I met him. Signed my book and did photos and everything. Top guy won't hear anything against the man.
(ok slightly smug, but still... :cool: cool guy)
 
Yes I didnt get how letting a peice of butter melt on it made it warm in winter.. so if we have a really wet windy cold winter.. how can those bricks have retained heat for weeks, nay months to support the warmth in this house?:confused:..and as someone else pointed out what about the bricks (interior) that saw no sunlight whatsoever??

It was indulgent and preposterous, not a family home at all, Im pretty sure those young ladies will be moving out asap into halls of residence as soon as uni hits...even they will be more welcoming.
 
I actually really liked the house and for a prototype I thought it was really very good.

I wouldn't have gone for carpets for reasons mentioned above. I would choose wooden floors and then use rugs to cover up areas. I really liked the criss cross of all the sections and with wooden floors it would be easy to hoover up between sections.

I also like the idea of movable walls. It isn't the sort of thing you would do on a weekly basis but fantastic flexibility for when the kiRAB leave home and you want to make better use of the space.

I think I liked the house so much because it was so well engineered and it wasn't just some architect trying to be too clever.

I also have no problem with him using GD to get some publicity. He was open about it from the start, the idea was his own that he worked on for 22 years and he was passionate about out and if people do want a house like that it could save his business and all those jobs. I can't see a problem with it. We need inventors like him - taking risks like he did is the way to get us out of the recession.

Bloody brave of him and bloody well done.
 
Well I liked it. I didn't think I would, but even without the "green" finish to the tower it looks fine. They talked a lot of nonsense about retaining the character of the bungalow (all 50 years of it) but I never thought that would work, unless they got mossy tiles for the rest of the roof.
 
I also liked the finished house. I liked the grid flooring/ ceiling. I liked the idea of moveable walls but I didn't like the moveable walls just because of privacy. The walls didn't go top to bottom, keeping out that extra bit of noise. I thought the sliding walls would have been on wheels with grooves int he floor, ceiling but I guess that would limit you again as you'd need to know how you wanted to change them once made.

I hope it does save his business and for the fact he was open about his buisiness flailing and he was doing this to try and recoup buisness good on him.
 
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