Name: Scrappy
Location: Civic Center park, San Francisco, California
Favorite: that every thing in and of this house is recycled, reused, or salvaged.
Maybe it is my warped sense of reality or my strange upbringing, or it could be all that time I spent in San Francisco, but I think one has to admit that DIY is coming into its own. And not just DIY, but reuse and recycling as the means to achieving that DIY end.
Unlike the voyeuristic experiences the Inside Out house tours usually provide, no one lives in this house.
Its appeal was magnified, however, while it was still standing (up June 1st-June 5th) by the opportunity to walk through it and interact with that which one found appealing. It was the SCRAP house (Scraphouse.org) --an idea generated by a filmmaker named Anna Fitch who thought it would be a great concept/process to document.
Fortunately, the chief building inspector at the San Francisco Building Department was interested and suggested United Nations World Environment Day (WED) as the perfect setting.
Is this house a) built to code, and b) built to last? I'm wondering why they didn't built it where it could have been sold?
few people would have seen it where it coulda been sold
(it was on the Civic Center Plaza lawn, between the museums, library, concert and symphony hall, court buildings, etc, grand grey elephants, and the majestic Beaux arts City hall.)
it was for sale for just $20K! (i guess getting it moved would be the bigger expense, altho i heard they took it apart to rebuild somewhere).
it needed sealing, or finishing too; parts of the roof was vinyl signage, leaving a glass/windshiled option up there too.
the layout was fab, the foyer/dining room, a wall of glass, full of sunlight, about 1/3 overall was windows; the vertical design felt quite spacious.
felt sort of post apocalyptic, Bladerunner meets Little House on the Prairie (or salvage yard) with its loft bedroom, but in the best, most elegant way...
Readymade to Sunset Magazine types would approve, Dwell too, altho i hope and pray that that this sort of thing takes off here and anywhere, instead of just the Dwell approved, haute modern upscale prefab.
inspired and cool design...with shower blue and green shower door exterior siding and relective pools around the entry too...bring it on, more, more!
JUST VIEWED "SCRAP HOUSE" ON NATIONAL GEO.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE IDEA AND CONCEPT.
wILL THESE DESIGNERS DESIGN ONE FOR ME?