DOI Heft:
No. 134 (May, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Week-end cottages: designs sent in for competition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0353
Week-End Cottages
with many of the competitors is that in which the
main rooms are either at right angles or at an
obtuse angle to one another, and the entering angle
is made use of for the vestibule with the hall, and
occasionally the stairs at the rear. 1904, page 326,
sends a plan on these lines full of ingenuity and
carefully contrived. One of his bedrooms, how-
ever, is only 7 ft. 6 ins. wide, and the lowness of
the eaves would, as a matter of fact, prevent
reaching it from the passage. It is an expensive
building and its cost would considerably exceed
the limit, as would also the scheme submitted by
Hermiston. Pooh BaKs plan, again, shows much
ingenuity, but he is far too optimistic in placing his
price per cube foot at \\d. His hall, occupying
as it does about a quarter of the superficial area of
the house, is unduly large. Marmor-Bashi adopts
the same angular arrangement of plan, but with the
result of obtaining awkwardly shaped rooms. The
entrance also into the living-room from the outer air
is a bad arrangement for, at all events, winter week-
ends. Alex submits a good and thoughtful plan but,
again, one impossible to carry out for the money.
Much could be said in favour of many of the
plans and elevations, but counterbalanced by the
undoubted fact that their authors have produced
what is understood as a villa rather than as a cot-
tage. This is so, for instance, in the case of the
drawings submitted by Wash, page 328, Simple
Aven, Capernaum, and Fireside. The access to the
latter's stairs, by-the-bye, shown as opening out of
the parlour, might have been more advantageously
arranged out of the lobby. Calabar, again, errs
in this direction, his hall above being 25 ft. 6 in.
by 18 ft. 9 in. Down South goes so far as to pro-
vide for the luxury of a smoking-room, and Pierrot
a dining-room, smoking-room, and hall.
Some of the plans, but not as many as might
have been expected, provide the opportunity for
sitting in the open air by means of a verandah, to
which in some cases the more ambitious names of
"loggia" and "stoep" are given; but we must
protest, from the practical point of view, against
Freehand's "loggia," the length of which is 6 ft.
and its width but 2 ft. He has, however, in his
plan the good notion of a protected entrance from
the garden to the sitting-room. Liolie, page 325,
submits quite a vigorous drawing; but his shelter
—a " verandah " this time, not a " loggia "—only
scales 2 ft. 6 in. in width, and would hardly serve
to protect one from the rain, and certainly not from
the sun. His entrance and hall are somewhat
cramped. Dingus, who sends the " stoep" plan
referred to above, treats his elevation pleasantly
with quasi-Hutch feeling. Heather, page 332, in
a design which promises to work out inexpensively,
has a pretty arrangement of verandah.
In the set sent in by Curlew the living room or
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with many of the competitors is that in which the
main rooms are either at right angles or at an
obtuse angle to one another, and the entering angle
is made use of for the vestibule with the hall, and
occasionally the stairs at the rear. 1904, page 326,
sends a plan on these lines full of ingenuity and
carefully contrived. One of his bedrooms, how-
ever, is only 7 ft. 6 ins. wide, and the lowness of
the eaves would, as a matter of fact, prevent
reaching it from the passage. It is an expensive
building and its cost would considerably exceed
the limit, as would also the scheme submitted by
Hermiston. Pooh BaKs plan, again, shows much
ingenuity, but he is far too optimistic in placing his
price per cube foot at \\d. His hall, occupying
as it does about a quarter of the superficial area of
the house, is unduly large. Marmor-Bashi adopts
the same angular arrangement of plan, but with the
result of obtaining awkwardly shaped rooms. The
entrance also into the living-room from the outer air
is a bad arrangement for, at all events, winter week-
ends. Alex submits a good and thoughtful plan but,
again, one impossible to carry out for the money.
Much could be said in favour of many of the
plans and elevations, but counterbalanced by the
undoubted fact that their authors have produced
what is understood as a villa rather than as a cot-
tage. This is so, for instance, in the case of the
drawings submitted by Wash, page 328, Simple
Aven, Capernaum, and Fireside. The access to the
latter's stairs, by-the-bye, shown as opening out of
the parlour, might have been more advantageously
arranged out of the lobby. Calabar, again, errs
in this direction, his hall above being 25 ft. 6 in.
by 18 ft. 9 in. Down South goes so far as to pro-
vide for the luxury of a smoking-room, and Pierrot
a dining-room, smoking-room, and hall.
Some of the plans, but not as many as might
have been expected, provide the opportunity for
sitting in the open air by means of a verandah, to
which in some cases the more ambitious names of
"loggia" and "stoep" are given; but we must
protest, from the practical point of view, against
Freehand's "loggia," the length of which is 6 ft.
and its width but 2 ft. He has, however, in his
plan the good notion of a protected entrance from
the garden to the sitting-room. Liolie, page 325,
submits quite a vigorous drawing; but his shelter
—a " verandah " this time, not a " loggia "—only
scales 2 ft. 6 in. in width, and would hardly serve
to protect one from the rain, and certainly not from
the sun. His entrance and hall are somewhat
cramped. Dingus, who sends the " stoep" plan
referred to above, treats his elevation pleasantly
with quasi-Hutch feeling. Heather, page 332, in
a design which promises to work out inexpensively,
has a pretty arrangement of verandah.
In the set sent in by Curlew the living room or
333