DOI Heft:
No.233 (August 1912)
DOI Artikel:The designs of country cottages
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0228
Country Cottages
BIRD S-EYE PERSPECTIVE AND PLANS OF COUNTRY COTTAGE DESIGNED
BY C. J. KAY
morning sun to a room which also serves the
purpose of breakfast-room.
Prospect is, in nearly every case, one of the
arranging of the garden in
which his building stands.
Some of those whose designs
are here reproduced have dis-
played considerable thought
and invention in the lay-out
of their cottage. The lily-
pond and formal garden of
Mr. Speir(p. 212) are simply
and prettily treated, and Mr.
Kay’s sketches show an ex-
cellent and well-balanced
scheme.
Of the two elements—the
plan and the elevational
treatment—that go to the
building of any structure
whether house, church, or
factory, the order of im-
portance is in every case
identical. It is the arrange-
ment of those facilities for
use which we call the
plan that should be the
dominating factor of the whole scheme. While the
external design of a house should be considered
side by side with the plan, it is the latter that is
j
points upon which the client expresses his own of all-essential importance and should shape the
strong personal desires, and to reconcile his
wishes as to the view which his windows should
command with the conditions entailed by the
aspect of the house is sometimes one of the
most difficult of the problems to be solved by
the architect. The latter is, indeed, from time
to time confronted with the crux that, while
the sitting-room windows face—or should face
—more or less south, the view that the client
loves and that led him to select his particular
site is towards the north. Yet thought and
contrivance can meet even that case satis-
factorily.
There is one other consideration of im-
portance to be dealt with before the position
of the intended house on the site can be
looked upon as a settled thing, and that is the
place to be occupied by the garden, and the
nature and size of the latter. Within recent
years it has fortunately been conceded by the
majority of house-builders that an architect’s
functions do not cease when he has designed
the actual structure and fabric of the house,
and he is now allowed to include in his pro-
vince the setting of his picture in a frame of
his own device, and the scheming-out and
206
DESIGN FOR INTERIOR OF COUNTRY COTTAGE
BY H. COLLINGS
BIRD S-EYE PERSPECTIVE AND PLANS OF COUNTRY COTTAGE DESIGNED
BY C. J. KAY
morning sun to a room which also serves the
purpose of breakfast-room.
Prospect is, in nearly every case, one of the
arranging of the garden in
which his building stands.
Some of those whose designs
are here reproduced have dis-
played considerable thought
and invention in the lay-out
of their cottage. The lily-
pond and formal garden of
Mr. Speir(p. 212) are simply
and prettily treated, and Mr.
Kay’s sketches show an ex-
cellent and well-balanced
scheme.
Of the two elements—the
plan and the elevational
treatment—that go to the
building of any structure
whether house, church, or
factory, the order of im-
portance is in every case
identical. It is the arrange-
ment of those facilities for
use which we call the
plan that should be the
dominating factor of the whole scheme. While the
external design of a house should be considered
side by side with the plan, it is the latter that is
j
points upon which the client expresses his own of all-essential importance and should shape the
strong personal desires, and to reconcile his
wishes as to the view which his windows should
command with the conditions entailed by the
aspect of the house is sometimes one of the
most difficult of the problems to be solved by
the architect. The latter is, indeed, from time
to time confronted with the crux that, while
the sitting-room windows face—or should face
—more or less south, the view that the client
loves and that led him to select his particular
site is towards the north. Yet thought and
contrivance can meet even that case satis-
factorily.
There is one other consideration of im-
portance to be dealt with before the position
of the intended house on the site can be
looked upon as a settled thing, and that is the
place to be occupied by the garden, and the
nature and size of the latter. Within recent
years it has fortunately been conceded by the
majority of house-builders that an architect’s
functions do not cease when he has designed
the actual structure and fabric of the house,
and he is now allowed to include in his pro-
vince the setting of his picture in a frame of
his own device, and the scheming-out and
206
DESIGN FOR INTERIOR OF COUNTRY COTTAGE
BY H. COLLINGS