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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:58 am Post subject: re:Small SFR Project in NJ |
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RSCarcht
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: Architecture: Commodity or complex craft |
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Your stock plans are indeed going to be quite complete but the quality of the design is seriously suspect and your desire to make a dozen or so changes proves that stock plans are often seriously defficient for even the simplest needs.
It is suprising to me that you are about to make the biggest investment of your life and undertake a journey (home construction) many have found frought with peril and you are obsessed with low price. This is like shopping south of the boarder for a heart transplant. Architecture is highly specific (local codes, specific site conditions, individaul programmatic needs, limited construction budgets) and is the exact opposite of a commodity.
Architects often more than save their fees by allowing for competitve bidding of construction and are there to help the homeowner from being picked clean by unscrupulous contractors (of which there are many). Building a home is not like going to Wal-mart to buy a stereo. I would say you would be better off buying an existing house and letting the homebuilders mess with the stock plans they use. These homes are built for surface appearance only and often the short cuts that have been taken to save money and increase profit in ways only evident months or years after the builder has unloaded the property.
America is a young country and is only beginning to appreciate the value of quality as opposed to quantity. When the average person looks with disdain on the suburban house with the silly "gable in gable" design and the giant two car garage sticking out the front of the house like an oversized nose, only then will our nation bring architecture out of the margins of the construction industry. The economic success of Seaside is a hopeful sign for the future of architecture. This process may take another fifty years, but those "builder specials" will not age well and won't look like much of a bargain twenty years after they are first inhabited.
As a nation we need to focus on "life cycle cost"--using our resources efficiently for the long term. This means being more energy efficient and putting up buildings we will be proud of in fifty or a hundred years. In the years after World War II, the world's money flowed to us as the only intact industrial power and we got fat and lazy. Now we are beset by competition on all fronts and our ability to marshall our resources in a smart way is our only hope to stay in the race. I would even say the economic future of our nation is at stake in the types of decisions that people like you are going to make.
I am sorry to sound harsh but you are clearly an intelligent person and need fair warning that construction, like surgery, is best left to professionals.
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