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My Usonian House Designs

When I was younger I used to draw house plans for fun. They were mostly based on Frank Lloyd Wright designs. A few years back, I started drawing Usonian House…
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A more formal drawing of the Concrete Bevel Block designs.
A cathedral Gable roof extends from the Living room, over the Dining room and ends over the Master Bedroom. A dropped overhead deck connects the Entry/ Kitchen side with the Bedroom hallway.
Triangular Wings pierce the central connecting Gallery. Low 7 foot ceiling in the gallery, but taller 9 foot ceilings in the wings create clerestory windows at junctures. Raised planters in gallery complete the triangular wing geometry. Gardens fill the spaces between the wings. The Living Room has a raised trangular clerestory. This was drawn on a picnic table at Mt Rainier National Park.

Triangular Bevel Block Usonian designs

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This one is not very inventive or original. It does showcase all the standard Passive Solar House design principles. The zig-zag walls are composed of thick Structural Insulated Panels for theirs insulating qualities. A Double wall buffer shields the North and West wall from temperature extremes. The South wall encloses a glass Garden Sunroom for winter solar gain. Tall South-facing clerestory windows warm a Themal Mass wall during the winter. The heat loss is near zero.
Grafting Net-Zero Passive Solar design techniques onto FLW's Zimmerman House, one of my favorites of his. The heavy zig-zag SIP panel walls make for a well-insulated North facing wall. Brick walls in the Living Room/ Dining Room area act as thermal masses to slowly absorb and re-radiate heat.
An attempt to see if I could graft Net-Zero Passive Solar design techniques onto FLW's Bachman-Wilson House. The house already works fairly well as a passive solar house in the winter, with its South-facing window wall and solid masonry North wall acting as thermal mass. I added SIP insulation to the outside of the North wall. Possibly adding a glass Sunroom on the South window wall would help to reduce heat loss in winter.

Passive and "Net-Zero" Usonian designs

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The Kitchen forms the hub of a free form concrete house that combines straight lines and concentric curves. Steps separate the raised dining area from the lower Living Room area. The flat roof steps up also, creating clerestory windows.
A curved cathedral gable roof unites the Living Room/ Dining Room wing with the Bedroom wing. This is another free form concrete house. Inside skylit circular planters create an arc from the Entry to the Dining Room. Perhaps these houses could be 3D printed?
A convex hemicycle house with a central garden courtyard perched on the edge of a cliff. The roofs are rounded domelike urethane foam.

Curved and free-form Usonian designs

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The built-in couches in the Fireplace/ home theater alcove of the living room. Skylit indoor gardens wrap around the living room on 3 sides.
Looking north over the Dining room table with the fireplace chimney mass in the center and the Living Room alcove at the left. The alternating glass block and concrette block columns separate the indoor garden from the carport. Low roof decks shield the living room from direct sun from the skylights.
Looking south from the Dining room over one of the indoor gardens. The Kitchen is at left, the Living Room at right.

My Usonian SketchUp plans

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The built-in couches in the Fireplace/ home theater alcove of the living room. Skylit indoor gardens wrap around the living room on 3 sides.
The built-in couches in the Fireplace/ home theater alcove of the living room. Skylit indoor gardens wrap around the living room on 3 sides.
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Looking north over the Dining room table with the fireplace chimney mass in the center and the Living Room alcove at the left. The alternating glass block and concrette block columns separate the indoor garden from the carport. Low roof decks shield the living room from direct sun from the skylights.
Looking north over the Dining room table with the fireplace chimney mass in the center and the Living Room alcove at the left. The alternating glass block and concrette block columns separate the indoor garden from the carport. Low roof decks shield the living room from direct sun from the skylights.
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Looking south from the Dining room over one of the indoor gardens. The Kitchen is at left, the Living Room at right.
Looking south from the Dining room over one of the indoor gardens. The Kitchen is at left, the Living Room at right.
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Still shot of my SketchUp 3D model of my Indoor Garden House. Skylit indoor gardens wrap round a central living room.
Still shot of my SketchUp 3D model of my Indoor Garden House. Skylit indoor gardens wrap round a central living room.
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This is a still of the 3D model of my Indoor Garden House 5. Skylit indoor gardens wrap around a central living room.
This is a still of the 3D model of my Indoor Garden House 5. Skylit indoor gardens wrap around a central living room.
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This 3D model is of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ross House living room and dining room. Note how the living room space flows into the dining room beyond. The lines of the removed room corners are marked on the ceiling.Note how the rooms overlap and share a common space. Movement between the rooms is on the diagonal- a new and revolutionary concept in 1902. Living Room And Dining Room, Living Room Spaces, Usonian House Plans, Make Build, Room Corner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Concrete Blocks, Overlap, Diagonal
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This 3D model is of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ross House living room and dining room. Note how the living room space flows into the dining room beyond. The lines of the removed room corners are marked on the ceiling.Note how the rooms overlap and share a common space. Movement between the rooms is on the diagonal- a new and revolutionary concept in 1902.
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Another triangle house based on the 45-degree bevel concrete block. This new block is ten inches wide and incorporated an insulating foam space between the two concrete faces. The house is cross shaped, with two gabled wings intersecting at the Dining Room. The Family/Livingroom is at bottom-left. The Garage is at bottom right. The Kitchen, Laundry, and Utility Rooms are at upper-right. The bedroom wing ending in the Master Bedroom suite are at upper-left. Bedroom Suite, Master Bedroom, Triangle House, Intersecting, Bevel, Ten
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Another triangle house based on the 45-degree bevel concrete block. This new block is ten inches wide and incorporated an insulating foam space between the two concrete faces. The house is cross shaped, with two gabled wings intersecting at the Dining Room. The Family/Livingroom is at bottom-left. The Garage is at bottom right. The Kitchen, Laundry, and Utility Rooms are at upper-right. The bedroom wing ending in the Master Bedroom suite are at upper-left.
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This wild house is based on half circle and quarter circle elements. The Living room is a quarter circle at the bottom right. It has a half-round home theater at the far right. The living room roof is a squat quarter-conical roof with a row of clerestory windows. A row of french doors open ontop a small terrace shared with the Dining Room. The cental portion of the house is comprised of two unequal radius half circles. It contains the Kitchen, Dining Room, Study, and childrens bedrooms. The squa Kitchen Dining, Dining Room, Small Terrace, Clerestory Windows, Half Circle, Squat, French Doors
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This wild house is based on half circle and quarter circle elements. The Living room is a quarter circle at the bottom right. It has a half-round home theater at the far right. The living room roof is a squat quarter-conical roof with a row of clerestory windows. A row of french doors open ontop a small terrace shared with the Dining Room. The cental portion of the house is comprised of two unequal radius half circles. It contains the Kitchen, Dining Room, Study, and childrens bedrooms. The squa
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