#modular housing

[the-city-in-mind]

…Montreal?

ooohh somewhere i'm not supposed to be

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Sterling Reed

[keepingitneutral]

Maison Bulle (Bubble House), Vexin Area, France,

Jean-Benjamin Maneval (1923-1986), French architect and urban planner, made the first sketches of his six-shell bubble house in 1963 : a little revolution in the field of prefabricated housing and foundation- less architecture.

Produced between 1968 and 1970, this house, which has a surface area of 36m2, is formed by assembling six independent reinforced polyester shells.

Originally, the architect had imagined these bubble houses as secondary residences with an ergonomic design for a family of four, where the space in each alcove would be optimized to the maximum.

In 2014, a non-conformist collector acquired at an auction an authentic 1968 bubble house by Jean-Benjamin Maneval. It is installed on his family estate, a former stud farm, for which he has given the artistic direction to KIF, an interdisciplinary creative studio formed by Guillaume Furet and Mélissa Louis.

Jean-Benjamin Maneval Architect

[vintagehomecollection]

Except for the mellow brown of the wood floor, pure saturated red is the only real hue used in this room, the color contrasted stunningly against the neutrals of black and white. One large green plant provides the opposition of a complementary color. Robert Whitton, architect. Photograph: Ezra Stoller.

Inside Today’s Home, 1986

[miamaimania]

′° Step into the Future: Michael Jantzen's 1981 Modular Steel Dome Housing

[tinyhousetown]

The ABODE³ Modular Home (320 SF)

[mensministry]

PEBL Grand, Hungary

Courtesy: Hello Wood

[bacchuschucklefuck]

as an artist who just wants to get to drawing the pretty clothes and is terrible at posing i am forever enamoured by your poses..... they have so much energy and movement!!!

was this via art study, a general knack for anatomy or do you just enjoy posing specifically? and do you have any tips?

(i was just wondering bc your pose work is always so dynamic :D (your lighting also slaps /pos))

this is one case where it's a secret fourth thing lol. I have never successfully studied a single thing in my life, I am not at all a naturally "gifted" artist (and as well I reject the idea altogether), and posing has never jumped out to me as its own task in drawing at all! the way I do anything art-related, and posing specifically, is a lot more mechanistic than how it's perceived I think; I've just assumed this came as a function of how narrative-forward I see art, and how much I focus on comic work.

what folks talk about as "posing" I usually think of in two terms: composition and character acting. composition is how the figures fit into the intended frame, and character acting is the actual motion that'll be portrayed. you can see how that logically works itself out! there are more words than stars in the sky written about composition already, I honestly don't think there's anything I can say that'd be more useful than words from artists like thomas romain. character acting is itself more a matter of writing than visual art to me; you've got a guy and they probably do things, you draw them do those things, that's really it. the rest of it is just, figuring out weights and accenting in a scene, shape language, line flow, discipline-specific stuff like that; since no matter what I'm drawing I always mentally think of it as a comic thing, I usually try to insist on the strong points of that medium, one of which is colloquializing shapes to imply the entirety of a movement through a single panel. I don't always succeed at this! I hope to do better in the future. but it's how I approach this matter.

I think sitting down with your art to think about like, how you're approaching it and what you're in it for would help with troubleshooting a lot of the times. it's helped me before! I'm a completely hedonistic artist, I don't draw what I don't want to draw. what is it exactly about posing that's giving you a hard time? is it something you can do without? usually it is. if it's the thinking up a pose part, you can copy poses from high fashion magazines and sewing pattern models and just photos you find. if it's the fitting a pose into a nice looking complete picture part, don't make it a nice looking complete picture, do it sketchbook style, collage a buncha stuff together. if you never want to think about posing ever again, that's what stock bases are for! make urself some or get some from an artist and just draw the nice clothes.

if ur committed to figuring out posing and wanna ease urself into it, I find prompt lists are pretty good for giving ur brain a ground to build on top of and start asking questions. it's also a good exercise to sit down before drawing a thing to ask urself what u want it to be like, genre-wise: is it gonna be a comic cover, or a family photo, or a professional photoshoot, etc. these things have their own visual languages, and keeping that in mind will direct u on how to frame and choose the movements for ur piece. or, if that's overwhelming, drawing characters running is always good! there's plenty of character acting involved in there, it shows off the physicality of the clothes nicely, and it's decently easy to frame.

(I am similarly mechanistic about pretty much every other aspect of drawing lol, lighting/shading included. fully a case of "if it looks alright I put it in, if it doesn't I don't do it". I still struggle with it every time I do colors, but what can ya do. if the piece asks for it that's what it'll get. thank you very much for the nice ask!)

[cnu-newurbanism]

Modular cottage designed to be cute

Why do factory-built houses tend to look ugly? Why can’t they be cute, like a cottage that would fit into a walkable neighborhood? New urbanists have been wrestling with that question for many years. 

Bruce Tolar, an architect based in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, asks: “Would you rather have a little manufactured house with the wrong-sloped roof and no porch, or would you like one that's very similar in square footage but has a great roof and a little bit of nice detailing on the porch?”

The assumption is that many home buyers would prefer the attractive cottage, and such a modular house recently won an Urban Guild Award. Built in the Franklin Homes factory in North Alabama, the house prototype was placed in Tolar’s development of cottages in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. “We have a tenant who’s very happy with it,” he says. “Now that we’ve done it, we can do it again under the right conditions. We hope to make that happen.”

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[disease]

LONDON MODULAR ALLIANCE ACID LAB | INTLBLK006 12", 2018

[modularmedia]

The Poison of Nostalgia - Modular Components Episode One Hundred and Eight

Join the crew minus Snowcone for a late night pondering on memes, nostalgia and religion.

[the-city-in-mind]

The City of Montreal is building modular housing to accommodate houseless people:

The City of Montreal launched a call for tenders today to acquire the modules needed for modular housing for the homeless. The first two buildings in this pilot project, which will house 60 people temporarily as they await more permanent housing solutions, is expected to be completed within six months.

While the location of these buildings has not yet been confirmed, the city’s executive committee member responsible for the homelessness file, Robert Beaudry, told La Presse that each would feature common areas as well as 30 separate rooms with toilets and showers. He added that a community organization (also TBD) would be present to assist residents in need of specialized services.

[swarnpert]

very very hopeful about the apartment i visited on friday but the owner said to hold off on sending in an application i'm assuming because his kid might move into it and i really hope he doesn't i really really want that apartment

[thriftrescue]

love these GUJO Adventure building sets! (retail)

"Mars Space Base" aka "SPACE DOLL HOUSE". Excellent - about time. LOVE that it's modular.

[vintagehomecollection]

From the platform beneath the windows, the play of levels is revealed. The oatmeal and dark-brown color scheme continues. Concealed behind the freestanding, chrome-framed shelving unit is the bedroom.

Rooms by Design, 1989

[odvunir]

hiiiii I'm link welcome to my crib! now I know what you're thinking. isn't it weird to have your foyer open and attached to a paddock? and I say well no, I love my horsey, and just look at that view.

next we have my gallery where I have hung this lovely piece of my fursona

and if we go upstairs w-

fuck. cut this out man don't put this in the edit I gotta fix that