occasional posts by risa aratyr
a chronicle of the fall and rise of Casa Jimenez-Aratyr
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. [Bjarke Ingels] The week of August 26th got a grand kickoff with a grand tour. I swung by the house after work to meet Mary, Carole and … Read more BE-COMING HOME: laboring on
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. [Frank Lloyd Wright] By mid-August, the 2nd story floor joists were in, and the once-blurry threshold between “outside” and “inside” coalesced into a firm boundary. Side note for “Where’s Table?” players: in the photo above, the kitchen is in the background. Alas! no table – and no … Read more BE-COMING HOME: on the rise
Room Service? Send up a larger room. [Groucho Marx] As soon as the floor was down, the guys got started on the first-floor framing. When Neil came by on Thursday 1 August, we had most of the north wall. By Friday the 2nd, when we met Adrian up at the site, a good portion of … Read more BE-COMING HOME: making room(s)
Home wasn’t built in a day. [Jane Sherwood Ace] The third week of July was all about getting the sub-floor plumbing and heating systems in place. Those little white tubes sticking out above the joists are a fantastic sub-floor innovation: PEX piping. PEX is durable, dissolution resistant, chemical resistant, scratch resistant, fracture resistant, and high-functioning … Read more BE-COMING HOME: plumbing the depths
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. [Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] After the foundation and sub-floor framing were in place, Jere and Martín could get going on the first floor. At this … Read more BE-COMING HOME: primer piso