{"id":763,"date":"2009-01-18T20:12:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T01:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-01-31T20:22:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T01:22:36","slug":"cool-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/18\/cool-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many years, I’ve been attracted to unconventional architecture, perhaps because of my affinity for sculpture. I’ve often thought that houses are “livable sculptures” and perhaps that is why I like organic architecture. I have three copies of Woodstock Handmade Houses<\/em>, by Robert Haney and David Ballantine; a copy of Handmade Houses<\/em>, by Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro; and a copy of The Craftsman Builder<\/em>, also by Boericke and Shapiro. Plus numerous other books on organic architecture, cob building, and various other types of natural building. Colleen’s recent post<\/a> on her stay at a cool hostel in Brunswick, GA has prompted me to “come out” on the subject, though I have posted before<\/a> on the topic of cool architecture. One of the reasons I bought property in Floyd County is because there is a substantial community of folks who also like alternative and organic architecture. At any rate, for those who like this sort of thing, I thought you’d be interested in the work of Sun Ray Kelly<\/a>. Here is a picture of one of his houses from his website:<\/p>\n

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I haven’t figured out what kind of house I am going to build, but it will likely be partially earth sheltered. My property slopes gently to the south, so it is ideal for building a passive solar house. It won’t be off-grid, but it will be as close to it as I can manage. But with the economy as it is now, commencing this “little” project is probably a few years off into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many years, I’ve been attracted to unconventional architecture, perhaps because of my affinity for sculpture. I’ve often thought that houses are “livable sculptures” and perhaps that is why I like organic architecture. I have three copies of Woodstock Handmade …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}