Wind Protected House with Glazed Walls
Tue, Nov 17, 2009 | Dream home designs | By Mike
Ohana House at Niulii is one of the houses that are located on Hawaiian hilltops to catch all amazing views around but protected from constant 10-40-knot-per-hour winds. The roofs are pitched to match the angle of the hill on which the house sits, sheltering the courtyard from the elements. Large glazed walls capture not only views of beautiful nature around but also the ocean. They also make the house interior be filled with natural light during the day. The building is anchored to the land on a rock base through steel tie downs that are visually laced into the rafters and pinned into the stone foundation. [Cutler Anderson Architects]
November 18th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I have looked and found it to be interesting and glazed walls are a good costruction as long as all safety problems have been taken into account such as how resilient are they against fire or hurricans or very strong winds as it does not say.
by the way talking about building bought to my attention a book I have just purchased which may interest your readers. It is called Lets Call The Builders In,by Andrew Stevens and is a very good book for the house owner as it tells them how to get a good builder/contractor and how a section of building work on the externals of a property should be carried out plus it gives a specification to copy to give to builders to quote on. It can br obtained from Amazon on line. Give it a try.