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The Eichler is the quintessential Californian Architecture in my opinion. I have done dozens of as-built drawings of many variations of these homes and they are all spectacular!
Despite the architectural qualities, one of the reasons I love Eichler homes is the fact that Eichler was one of the first American developers to adopt a non-discrimination policy. I read somewhere that he even offered to buy back the homes of buyers who were uncomfortable with the fact that black families would be his neighbors. What a great spirit!
one of my all time favorites! the attention details in architcture landscaping and furninishings is on a modern perfection level!! nice job to the homeowners also!
Definitely captured the modern home vibe. I feel like you'd have to wear sunglasses inside more often than outside! LOL The entry courtyard is amazing.
I dont know that this narration gave as much detail or emphasis to the architecture that I'd like but having said that... I love the direction of the edit and seeing perspectives from the nature and the liveliness of people through the space. You guys always deliver incredible visuals of these projects and Im constantly in awe of how you're pioneerring the presentation of architecture videos
I always think the same thing; you couldn't pull that off in southern Alberta, Canada! I love that open air architecture. Guess I need to move to California.
Loved the integrated duality, on this project, so much. It's so well aligned and achieved to the point of not being obvious if it was rather a house built inside a garden or a garden built inside and around the house. A genuine *sigh* of love from me to you, beautiful nature in the house in the nature.
definitivamente este proyecto es mi favorito.😍😍Estoy encantado con el concepto y su estética naturalista. creo que en la modernidad es importante diseñar las casas para que sean santuarios para relajarse y desconectarse de la rutina acelerada de la ciudad.
Unfortunately this video is falling back into the same pattern of not showing the actual architecture of this structure. The last few videos seemed to have made the conscious choice to show more of the homes spaces and transitions and thankfully some drone footage to show neighborhood or topographic context. This seems more like a commercial for some type of picket fence stereotypic American lifestyle. Please put more emphasis on the architecture and not a 100 percent overly romanticized propaganda short films. Don’t want to be harsh because the production value is good but seems extremely surface driven.
Which is what makes The Local Project so good. Each project is unique and captures what the author wants use to see and feel. Brilliant work as always.
I think what is potentially missing is arguably the foundation of design literacy: the FLOOR PLAN. It would be so beneficial to ground and orient the viewer to the concept. The visuals would then articulate and reinforce what the goals were. Shots of bark and plants doesn’t help understand the indoor outdoor connection but a plan showing the courtyard and all the openings would. You raise a good question about how one might think they are communicating design and how design is actually communicated. If we reflect and ask ‘What is the take away here? What did this content reveal or demonstrate about successful design? What is going to make me remember this piece of architecture?” I’m not sure I could respond with anything more in depth than ‘courtyards are good?’. 🤷🏻♀️ They didn’t speak about zero thresholding, or continuity of materiality between inside or outside, or the size of the openings, or view lines, or how the courtyard and backyard relate etc. etc. and relate it back to the plan… Never Too Small do a great job of showing how the architecture works, you might enjoy their channel.
Hermoso concepto de pensar en las áreas verdes antes que en en el concreto. Mal por the local proyect pues no ves más de la casa, detalles que este parece solo estética y sombras.
I love the incorporation of nature into the house, how airy and open it feels and how intimate at the sometime. One issue is that, to me, it feels too white. It has white wood ceilings and beams, white walls and light grey floors. I wonder how it would look like with natural wood ceiling vs. white-painted one? maybe it's deviating too much from the original mid-century design?
The choice of having the primary bathroom be so transparent to the inner courtyard, and thus all the public spaces of the house, is really weird to me. I get wanting to open the bathroom into the space, but unless you live alone the lack of privacy would just be too weird to me.
Sunnyvale native here. Raised in an Eichler. Why was Eichler never mentioned, student of FLW. Nor did you mention that these homes are historically protected and can only be modified in a limited way. This video implies you designed this house. This is a tract home Eichler. Kind of implied taking credit for Eichler design.
Sadly this channel has made the choice of showing homes without actually showing them. I love the home choices but i wish someone came after them and just gave me a house tour video, so i can understand what im seeing
I was so excited to see a house in Sunnyvale on this channel - Bay Area native here! The home is beautiful, but I had to stop watching the video. The vocal fry was annoying af. They both sound so pretentious.
I usually enjoy these videos, but there were too many close up shots here that I couldn't get a feel for anything the floor plan in this house does. I kept thinking they would close-up a paper clip. If there is a site with the house featured, I would like to see it because the house seems like something I would like, outside of the close-ups on the plants, the kids toys. Oh and the woman's voice was so off-putting I had to turn off the sound, then when it got to the kid on the patio chair, I gave up.
Her voice really distracts me, I can clearly hear it is forced to go low. Some Americans do that, I don't know why, I guess there must be a sociologic reason.
What's the point of an atrium? It always looks so goofy Edit: Unwatchable due to the cuts every 2 secs. Absolutely nauseating. Stop being so pretentious
