DOI issue:
Nr. 146 (May 1905)
DOI article:Recent designs for domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0351
Designs for Domestic Architecture
choose an in-
termediate
position be-
tween these
extre m e s,
high enough
for view and
low enough
for shelter,
and if this
arrangement
involves an
approach to
the house
from higher
a hillside house : entrance front m. h. baillie scott, architect g r o u n d ,
what is lost
in dignity is
kitchens and other discreditable appurtenances gained in homeliness of effect, as one catches
must be hidden away at the back. These and glimpses of the homestead nestling amongst its
many other unwritten regulations have led to the trees. The sketches illustrated show such a
evolution of suburbia as we find it, and have ended Hillside House. AVhatever effect it may possess
by making the average modern house one of the is the outcome ot the art of building as ex-
most extraordinary manifestations oi congested pressed in structure rather than ornament. One
foolishness that the world has arrived at since first of the most important lessons which we have learnt
men sought for shelter in caves and tents. from the experimental building of the last fifty
Two opposing considerations govern the choice years or so, in which classic columns and gothic
of the position of a
country house in a hilly
district — the desirability
of shelter and the demand
for view. In the old
days the former was more
valued. A house was con-
ceived as a retreat from
the outside world—a little
enchanted country which
owed much of its charm
to its remoteness from ex-
ternal conditions. In the
modern house the neces-
sity for escaping from the
ugliness of its interior has
driven the unhappy occu-
pant to the window. Hence
the demand for large
sheets of glass and the
craze for "views." And
so, while old houses were
often built in valleys,
modern ones are built on
hilltops. In the case of a
hillside sloping towards
the south, it is better to a hillside house: the hall m. h. baillie scott, architect
333
choose an in-
termediate
position be-
tween these
extre m e s,
high enough
for view and
low enough
for shelter,
and if this
arrangement
involves an
approach to
the house
from higher
a hillside house : entrance front m. h. baillie scott, architect g r o u n d ,
what is lost
in dignity is
kitchens and other discreditable appurtenances gained in homeliness of effect, as one catches
must be hidden away at the back. These and glimpses of the homestead nestling amongst its
many other unwritten regulations have led to the trees. The sketches illustrated show such a
evolution of suburbia as we find it, and have ended Hillside House. AVhatever effect it may possess
by making the average modern house one of the is the outcome ot the art of building as ex-
most extraordinary manifestations oi congested pressed in structure rather than ornament. One
foolishness that the world has arrived at since first of the most important lessons which we have learnt
men sought for shelter in caves and tents. from the experimental building of the last fifty
Two opposing considerations govern the choice years or so, in which classic columns and gothic
of the position of a
country house in a hilly
district — the desirability
of shelter and the demand
for view. In the old
days the former was more
valued. A house was con-
ceived as a retreat from
the outside world—a little
enchanted country which
owed much of its charm
to its remoteness from ex-
ternal conditions. In the
modern house the neces-
sity for escaping from the
ugliness of its interior has
driven the unhappy occu-
pant to the window. Hence
the demand for large
sheets of glass and the
craze for "views." And
so, while old houses were
often built in valleys,
modern ones are built on
hilltops. In the case of a
hillside sloping towards
the south, it is better to a hillside house: the hall m. h. baillie scott, architect
333