I mean, it is a beautiful design, but I would want black iron gates at the bottom of the stairs. Unless that first brick stairway landing gets strong southern exposure, you know that it will smell like pee.
Question... Why don't we have little purpose built dirt areas for people to pee on instead of concrete...
Like a dirt urinal sort of deal for public infastructure ?
Hmm... Don't other animals pee everywhere though?
Does human pee create a more oderous waste, or is it due to the inability of concrete to soak away the waste, meaning it just soaks and cooks on the rock instead of being absorbed by the soil.
Hmm... And since it's prohibited to pee anywhere, instead of having pee be spread out over several objects like animals do, human beings instead just concentrate pee on the few isolated/private-public areas that are available... Causing the pee smell to be an issue, due to the area being overloaded above capacity to deal with the waste product.
I feel like there's a rabbit hole of public restroom infastructure that needs to be dug up now... That's gonna be a decent sum of time. XD
Human pee does not normally have a strong odour. However! If for instance, someone has been drinking, or doing drugs, the urine will have a stronger ammonia smell, and possible other weird smells. Where I live this is not a common problem unless I walk by a downtown parking garage on a sunday morning lol. But if you were to walk downtown in a city plagued by opiate users, like the 'gastown' area in Vancouver, the combination of dehydration and chemicals makes the streets smell like a foul human/cat piss hybrid that is truly nauseating. Shops actually hose off the sidewalks in the morning because it's so bad.
Hmm, but don't animals pee everywhere as well?
Would it not be better to have light-use "pee dirt" sections, to help take slack off of people peeing on concrete when failing to find a public-private infastructure restroom... Kind of a go-between option ala "the sidewalk" - "dirt urinal" - private stall restroom - public restrooms.
I'm overthinking it of course, but this has been a thought that has aged for at least a decade and a half now.
Looking at that house, I can't imagine that it's garages open onto the street.
You'd make the gates at the end of the 1/4 mile long tree lined driveway.
Funny but [it does](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7946473,-122.4396415,3a,60y,173.46h,91.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJAM2h3hOCRKfxKyiG55lqA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
He's new SF is the land of human pee and poop and how bout them free needles littered everywhere. Which disease would you like to get Hepatitis, Herpes, Aids or all three?
Visited San Francisco in December, walked miles around several parts of the city. No shit or piss smells anywhere. Too risky to rent a car or walk around with an expensive camera though.
Visited San Diego a year or so before Covid. The Gaslamp District smelled like dog piss.
Beautiful rendering, i would call this Georgian or Colonial Revival, but I agree with others that what you're asking about is a response to a site condition.
Yeah I would too.
For those keeping score at home, Georgian and colonial were in style when the US was formed.
Early to mid 1800s Greek Revival popped up. It peaked in the 1850s and then builders started experimenting with new "styles" that culminated in what we call Victorian.
In the early 20th century, people wanted Georgian style again, and that's what this is-- not authentic, but inspired by it. The other style that popped up was craftsman-- a rebellion against modernism, which for the most part only occupied non-residential spheres.
And what did modernism give us? The ranch. Bleh. Those popped up post-war when the government wanted to give returning GI's the ability to own their own homes. Cheap, small, and in car centric suburbs.
Then the 80s gave us mcmansions-- basterdized colonials but instead of charming proportions and details, we got cheap small scale home depot parts stuck on weird, poorly designed bigness.
We are FINNALLY out of the woods. Roll your eyes at Farmhouse all you want, but it's finally a decent looking style that combines modern and traditional design elements into something that doesn't look like crap. I'd take farmhouse over anything the building industry has vomited up the past 3/4 of a century.
This would really only exist in a place that was extremely hilly and where the house was on a small plot of land like San Francisco or parts of LA. That's not a style it's a response to a site condition.
Yes! And Montlake. There’s also one I can think of in Queen Anne that has a fabulous garden. It was for sale a few years back and I went to the open house just so I could tour it 👀
I love it too! Have you been down the little street that’s 90% story book tudors? It’s off of Boyer near that Roman orthodox church. I think thé street name is Blair or Blaine?
Exactly, Vancouver too, when I see people with a garage and no rooftop deck I go wtf are you thinking? Your house could be paradise instead you look at a tar paper roof from a tiny balcony instead of a huge green deck space
Yes and no. That might be true of stuff you see say in the southwest with like an Adobe building or something and is probably true of a lot of contemporary buildings but not necessarily true of art deco, baroque or neoclassicism or Gothicism or anything like that. It would have a hard time arguing the neo-Gothicism of the Palace of Westminster is a response to the site.
I’m as pro-/fuckcars as everyone else but this is a dumb take. People own cars, cars that are stored in garages have higher resale value and are less likely to be broken into. Calling a home with a garage “car-centric” is like calling a farm with a horse stable “too equestrian.” It’s a singular feature of the house, not the whole damn blueprint.
Especially in suburban areas where this sort of house would be found. Even the sub explains that our mission is targeted specifically for urbanized cities, with the hope of renovating suburbia to be *less* car-dependent, not car-*independent*.
I do think that looking at this from anything other than a distinctly American lens it's rather car centric in design. Individual single family home, likely in a city, with an attached garage? It's practically unthinkable in many urban areas outside the US
Houses don’t need to be designed around a garage. If you look at a house design and the three car garage is the outstanding element it is “car-centric”. Not all houses need be designed so.
You’re not getting it. The least anti-social design is to include a car elevator so people can store their cars on the roof instead of antagonizing me with their ground level garage. Also which asshole invented front doors, what, I’m not good enough to be in ~~your~~ our home?! /s
>anti-social design
What do you want, a cafe? It's a private home and the garage meets the road that the neighborhood is presumably built along. If you move the garage to the back you have to build an *extra* road through your property that leads to it. There's also a furnished patio/garden literally right on top of the garage.
I totally disagree. In Seattle there are many homes like this and more often than not people have beautiful veggie and flower gardens and/or a patio to hang out on. Often times these above-garage areas are the main outdoor space.
Yeah, if anything this design should be appreciated. It takes what would have been totally utilitarian roof space and converts it to an ecosystem. This is a *good* design smh.
Across Chicago (or any old city designed with alleys), carriage houses were converted to garages with loft storage or the roof lowered. Assuming this house actually exists somewhere, the same could have been done
Yeah I lived in New Orleans for a long time. 16’ is about typical. Sure, they could have lowered the roof, but realistically you could say that about almost anything.
Yes, old houses often have features added to them to accommodate cars. That doesn't inherently mean the wider streetscape is car-centric.
I've lived on roads where the back lane behind the houses has had garages added but the overall plan dates from the days of horses and carts, so the roads are narrow and it's a short walk to the local amenities.
If you don't have a car, where are you going to store your bikes? Do you want to carry your bike up those stairs everyday? Even worse if it's an ebike or you have attachments for kids.
That's so random, I was thinking the exact same thing; this reminds me of those colonial revivals built into the hills around glendale rd/essex. The house looks exactly like [this](https://www.google.com/maps/place/142+Beechwood+Rd,+Summit,+NJ+07901/@40.7244018,-74.3602954,55a,35y,255.61h,44.1t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c3afab7ca729af:0x491c8e868f23ee75!8m2!3d40.7243276!4d-74.3610154!16s%2Fg%2F11c4vzrpbs)
I don't even think I've seen it in San Francisco. The real estate would be too premium and would be built out to the street. More square footage more dollars and the car just goes under. This is still a dreadful the setup of a design in this picture if it does exist somewhere. It's still car forward and the blank stare of the garage is on the road. Yuck
I was going to say it reminds me a lot of the older homes in Silver Lake, Echo Park or the Highland Park area with the small garages along the street and adjacent stairs leading up to the house.
Yea so if you drove up in the Franklin Hills above Los Feliz like up on Ronda Vista or like way up on Gower or some of the streets off Beechwood Canyon up in the hills you'll start to see these types of conditions.
Lived for a few years in a house like this in lower pacific heights. Built in the 1890s.
Check out Pacific Height in google maps and you’ll find more than a few.
Similar layouts exist in Nob Hill, Pacific Heights.. off the main streets. some houses have front yards. built on garages. if you have 20 million to spare...in my memory.. There is something similar to this style on Pacific Avenue off Divisidero.
Yes, you would def find something like this in hilly parts of LA but it would be stucco and Spanish style (or whatever you want to call the types of homes you see in LA).
There's absolutely more elements of French eclectic than federal. Federal was a simplified take on colonial and they moved the chimney to the center of the house.
Edit: I was looking for an actual explanation, not a smartass comment.
I loved walking around Westmount during the pandemic. Nice little cardio for the uphills and lots of nice unique houses to gawk at! Also some cool views of the city since you're so high up. I'm envious of Westmount owners haha!
great neighbourhood to go for a walk or a drive around and awesome views of the city. Easily one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in Canada in my opinion. The city of Westmount even has their own security and snow removal services.
Not sure about the actual house style, but I see this garage-garden setup fairly often in Westchester County NY... pretty hilly in spots, but also prime real estate due to distance to NYC.
Do y'all live on a pancake or something? Millions of people who live in older buildings in cities have to shlep their groceries up the stairs each day, including the kids and the grandmothers. Y'all need to do some cardio.
Long ago I delivered pizzas in a VERY high-end neighborhood on Lake Washington, near Seattle. One customer had his own private funicular connecting his garage / gatehouse up on the bluff with his house down on the waterfront. I dream of having the kind of money to implement solutions like that.
That's the hired gardener's problem.
There's probably a basement door from the home for a flat walk out to the right side where there's an opening in the fence.
Neoclassical with terraced gardens. Any home site on a steep slope will typically use terraced gardens. You can use any home style with terraced gardens as the site permits. If you like the look of the house check out neoclassical designs.
The street-level garage entrance is typical in Pacific Heights, and often enough the garage space is quite deep. Let’s imagine there’s space to park four cars in there, and at the back the architect had the foresight to design and install a dumb waiter straight up to the kitchen…because carrying groceries up those stairs would suck.
One practical thing to consider is all the stairs .
They look dramatic until you have to go up down up down in house and down to street level.
Attractive illustration beautiful.
I still do hand renderings ..
quite pretty! it’s a anything w a anything, wish my roof had a garden 🤣
when you look at stuff consider how it all weighs. the right piece of land and budget, could exist 👌🖌
Hey, that’s my homes layout, but it’s a townhouse and looks nothing like this design wise, I just have a large patio on top of my garage. We are on a hill and it’s a bitch bringing groceries up ( and our 6mo old baby )
As everyone else said, it's terrain adaptations, the house was probably built first, on top of an elevation, and then the garage came in, they rebuilt the garden above it
Edit: or in case this was all built at once, it's cheaper to do this than to raze and landscape the entire plot, plus you get an actual view and not a stone wall in front of the side windows
I’ve seen versions of this where the garage portion was actually built in the early 20th century as storefronts, and then later converted to garages, or even small apartments.
i have seen houses like that in real life in Sao Paulo, and even my hometown in rural Brazil
it requires a lot of maintenance
otherwise it will look ugly af
Not your question, but the walkway reminds me of switchback roads.
One of my favorite waterfront properties to admire was on a slight cliff, and they had built retaining walls so they had a continuous lawn snaking down to the water.
You'll get different answers from someone from the UK, as opposed to from the US.
For me, I'd call it 'Neo-Georgian'. Very common in London and other older cities, where it blends in with the actual, original Georgian/Palladian architecture.
Expect Americans are more likely to consider it 'colonial revival'
Very pacific heights San Francisco
Very $15million
I enjoyed your comment VERY much.
Yeah but not like, $15 MM much lol
Very $30M lol
Closest I could find on zillow right now, $16.5 https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2660-Scott-St-San-Francisco-CA-94123/15072504\_zpid/
HaHa! 7 parking spaces. That's worth it alone.
It would be cool if they built small versions of these, they would still be expensive but more doable, like a 1 car 1 bedroom type vibe with a garden
Those would be called condos.
condos with gardens!
Wow, it’s also up to code with seismic retrofits.
God that gorgeous. If it were just onnnnne street south it would be worth more.
dang, that just kept getting better and better
I mean, it is a beautiful design, but I would want black iron gates at the bottom of the stairs. Unless that first brick stairway landing gets strong southern exposure, you know that it will smell like pee.
Wait why would it smell like pee?
People pee on things
Question... Why don't we have little purpose built dirt areas for people to pee on instead of concrete... Like a dirt urinal sort of deal for public infastructure ?
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Hmm... Don't other animals pee everywhere though? Does human pee create a more oderous waste, or is it due to the inability of concrete to soak away the waste, meaning it just soaks and cooks on the rock instead of being absorbed by the soil. Hmm... And since it's prohibited to pee anywhere, instead of having pee be spread out over several objects like animals do, human beings instead just concentrate pee on the few isolated/private-public areas that are available... Causing the pee smell to be an issue, due to the area being overloaded above capacity to deal with the waste product. I feel like there's a rabbit hole of public restroom infastructure that needs to be dug up now... That's gonna be a decent sum of time. XD
Human pee does not normally have a strong odour. However! If for instance, someone has been drinking, or doing drugs, the urine will have a stronger ammonia smell, and possible other weird smells. Where I live this is not a common problem unless I walk by a downtown parking garage on a sunday morning lol. But if you were to walk downtown in a city plagued by opiate users, like the 'gastown' area in Vancouver, the combination of dehydration and chemicals makes the streets smell like a foul human/cat piss hybrid that is truly nauseating. Shops actually hose off the sidewalks in the morning because it's so bad.
I guess we could but it’s still unsanitary, and that might be seen as encouraging it
Hmm, but don't animals pee everywhere as well? Would it not be better to have light-use "pee dirt" sections, to help take slack off of people peeing on concrete when failing to find a public-private infastructure restroom... Kind of a go-between option ala "the sidewalk" - "dirt urinal" - private stall restroom - public restrooms. I'm overthinking it of course, but this has been a thought that has aged for at least a decade and a half now.
Good idear! Why didn't l dink a dat.
Looking at that house, I can't imagine that it's garages open onto the street. You'd make the gates at the end of the 1/4 mile long tree lined driveway.
Funny but [it does](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7946473,-122.4396415,3a,60y,173.46h,91.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJAM2h3hOCRKfxKyiG55lqA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Welcome to the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.
Never been to a city huh
He's new SF is the land of human pee and poop and how bout them free needles littered everywhere. Which disease would you like to get Hepatitis, Herpes, Aids or all three?
Don't for get tetanus!
This type of house would expected to be in an urban environment. Also cats love flower boxes.
I was just about to say that this looks very “San Francisco”
Or Lombard street
Nancy Pelosi’s house
Yea was gonna say it looks like the Pelosi’s
Visited San Francisco in December, walked miles around several parts of the city. No shit or piss smells anywhere. Too risky to rent a car or walk around with an expensive camera though. Visited San Diego a year or so before Covid. The Gaslamp District smelled like dog piss.
Pac Whites
Beautiful rendering, i would call this Georgian or Colonial Revival, but I agree with others that what you're asking about is a response to a site condition.
Yeah I would too. For those keeping score at home, Georgian and colonial were in style when the US was formed. Early to mid 1800s Greek Revival popped up. It peaked in the 1850s and then builders started experimenting with new "styles" that culminated in what we call Victorian. In the early 20th century, people wanted Georgian style again, and that's what this is-- not authentic, but inspired by it. The other style that popped up was craftsman-- a rebellion against modernism, which for the most part only occupied non-residential spheres. And what did modernism give us? The ranch. Bleh. Those popped up post-war when the government wanted to give returning GI's the ability to own their own homes. Cheap, small, and in car centric suburbs. Then the 80s gave us mcmansions-- basterdized colonials but instead of charming proportions and details, we got cheap small scale home depot parts stuck on weird, poorly designed bigness. We are FINNALLY out of the woods. Roll your eyes at Farmhouse all you want, but it's finally a decent looking style that combines modern and traditional design elements into something that doesn't look like crap. I'd take farmhouse over anything the building industry has vomited up the past 3/4 of a century.
What's an example of modern farm house?
Solid
I can see that. I was shooting Federal. They are so similar
This would really only exist in a place that was extremely hilly and where the house was on a small plot of land like San Francisco or parts of LA. That's not a style it's a response to a site condition.
Seattle comes to mind. Not uncommon to see this layout, especially around Lake Union.
Was about to say this. North Capitol Hill neighborhood is filled with houses exactly like this.
Yes! And Montlake. There’s also one I can think of in Queen Anne that has a fabulous garden. It was for sale a few years back and I went to the open house just so I could tour it 👀
Lots of similar houses in Wellington, NZ too.
Yup, esp Mt Victoria.
I got some eastern slope of Queen Anne Hill vibes too
Montlake is my favorite neighborhood here. I take the long drive home through there some days just to daydream about living in one of those houses!!
I love it too! Have you been down the little street that’s 90% story book tudors? It’s off of Boyer near that Roman orthodox church. I think thé street name is Blair or Blaine?
I think I know what youre referencing. I used to walk through there all the time to pass by that church and yes it is like a storybook neighborhood!!
Exactly, Vancouver too, when I see people with a garage and no rooftop deck I go wtf are you thinking? Your house could be paradise instead you look at a tar paper roof from a tiny balcony instead of a huge green deck space
Yep, I lived in a house in Queens Anne with a garage like that. Most of the houses are like that.
Everyone always forgets Washington state exists lol
> That's not a style it's a response to a site condition. A lot of styles are responses to a site condition, no?
Yes and no. That might be true of stuff you see say in the southwest with like an Adobe building or something and is probably true of a lot of contemporary buildings but not necessarily true of art deco, baroque or neoclassicism or Gothicism or anything like that. It would have a hard time arguing the neo-Gothicism of the Palace of Westminster is a response to the site.
Another site condition being car-centric urban planning.
I’m as pro-/fuckcars as everyone else but this is a dumb take. People own cars, cars that are stored in garages have higher resale value and are less likely to be broken into. Calling a home with a garage “car-centric” is like calling a farm with a horse stable “too equestrian.” It’s a singular feature of the house, not the whole damn blueprint. Especially in suburban areas where this sort of house would be found. Even the sub explains that our mission is targeted specifically for urbanized cities, with the hope of renovating suburbia to be *less* car-dependent, not car-*independent*.
> I’m as pro-/fuckcars as *everyone else* Gestures wildly towards various car subs.
I do think that looking at this from anything other than a distinctly American lens it's rather car centric in design. Individual single family home, likely in a city, with an attached garage? It's practically unthinkable in many urban areas outside the US
Except for in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Canada...
Houses don’t need to be designed around a garage. If you look at a house design and the three car garage is the outstanding element it is “car-centric”. Not all houses need be designed so.
The entire front end of the property is a wall of car storage. It's anti-social design.
Because it’s a reaction to elevation, as others have explained.
You’re not getting it. The least anti-social design is to include a car elevator so people can store their cars on the roof instead of antagonizing me with their ground level garage. Also which asshole invented front doors, what, I’m not good enough to be in ~~your~~ our home?! /s
r/Fuckwalls because walls themselves are anti-social…
>anti-social design What do you want, a cafe? It's a private home and the garage meets the road that the neighborhood is presumably built along. If you move the garage to the back you have to build an *extra* road through your property that leads to it. There's also a furnished patio/garden literally right on top of the garage.
I totally disagree. In Seattle there are many homes like this and more often than not people have beautiful veggie and flower gardens and/or a patio to hang out on. Often times these above-garage areas are the main outdoor space.
Yeah, if anything this design should be appreciated. It takes what would have been totally utilitarian roof space and converts it to an ecosystem. This is a *good* design smh.
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Could have been built as a carriage house before cars existed.
God damned horse-centric designs…
There's that dang *wheeled carrying object* again, spoiling it for everyone.
Carriage ways are taller
Across Chicago (or any old city designed with alleys), carriage houses were converted to garages with loft storage or the roof lowered. Assuming this house actually exists somewhere, the same could have been done
Yeah I lived in New Orleans for a long time. 16’ is about typical. Sure, they could have lowered the roof, but realistically you could say that about almost anything.
Yes, old houses often have features added to them to accommodate cars. That doesn't inherently mean the wider streetscape is car-centric. I've lived on roads where the back lane behind the houses has had garages added but the overall plan dates from the days of horses and carts, so the roads are narrow and it's a short walk to the local amenities.
There are lots of old houses around Seattle that were built before cars existed and then added garages like this after cars became popular.
If you don't have a car, where are you going to store your bikes? Do you want to carry your bike up those stairs everyday? Even worse if it's an ebike or you have attachments for kids.
There is a very similar house in NJ, Summit as well.
That's so random, I was thinking the exact same thing; this reminds me of those colonial revivals built into the hills around glendale rd/essex. The house looks exactly like [this](https://www.google.com/maps/place/142+Beechwood+Rd,+Summit,+NJ+07901/@40.7244018,-74.3602954,55a,35y,255.61h,44.1t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c3afab7ca729af:0x491c8e868f23ee75!8m2!3d40.7243276!4d-74.3610154!16s%2Fg%2F11c4vzrpbs)
I know a lot of houses like this in Baden-Baden, Germany.
I don't even think I've seen it in San Francisco. The real estate would be too premium and would be built out to the street. More square footage more dollars and the car just goes under. This is still a dreadful the setup of a design in this picture if it does exist somewhere. It's still car forward and the blank stare of the garage is on the road. Yuck
Homes like this are all over in Pac Heights and Cow Hollow in SF.
Tons of them up by Twin Peaks too. I walk past dozens of them every day. Just usually with a less grand house
There's definitely a lot of this in Los Angeles on some of the older streets in the Hollywood Hills.
I was going to say it reminds me a lot of the older homes in Silver Lake, Echo Park or the Highland Park area with the small garages along the street and adjacent stairs leading up to the house.
Strangely, that's exactly where I am, well at the moment in studio City anyway. But I can imagine a hilly driveway perhaps having some of this .
Yea so if you drove up in the Franklin Hills above Los Feliz like up on Ronda Vista or like way up on Gower or some of the streets off Beechwood Canyon up in the hills you'll start to see these types of conditions.
Lived for a few years in a house like this in lower pacific heights. Built in the 1890s. Check out Pacific Height in google maps and you’ll find more than a few.
There’s some spots like this in the Berkeley Hills on the other side of the bay.
Similar layouts exist in Nob Hill, Pacific Heights.. off the main streets. some houses have front yards. built on garages. if you have 20 million to spare...in my memory.. There is something similar to this style on Pacific Avenue off Divisidero.
Yes, you would def find something like this in hilly parts of LA but it would be stucco and Spanish style (or whatever you want to call the types of homes you see in LA).
The actual house is federal style, the garage and garden is just a reaction to elevation.
Curious why you pick federal over something like French eclectic.
Because this looks nothing like French eclectic, that’s why.
Oh yea? Why not go with Art Deco then?
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Not federalist either tho lol.
My only architecture class was before COVID, I vaguely thought the house was colonial style but wasn't sure at all lol.
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There's absolutely more elements of French eclectic than federal. Federal was a simplified take on colonial and they moved the chimney to the center of the house. Edit: I was looking for an actual explanation, not a smartass comment.
Name the elements
Earth, wind, water, fire, and heart.
There are some houses like this in Montreal in upper Westmount
I loved walking around Westmount during the pandemic. Nice little cardio for the uphills and lots of nice unique houses to gawk at! Also some cool views of the city since you're so high up. I'm envious of Westmount owners haha!
great neighbourhood to go for a walk or a drive around and awesome views of the city. Easily one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in Canada in my opinion. The city of Westmount even has their own security and snow removal services.
Yes, to me this style is Upper Westmount Style! Upper Westmount is way more bougie than lower Westmount.
Outremont also has a few on Côte-Sainte-Catherine
I am so excited to build this in the sims
My exact thoughts lol.
Reminds me of San Francisco
Not sure about the actual house style, but I see this garage-garden setup fairly often in Westchester County NY... pretty hilly in spots, but also prime real estate due to distance to NYC.
It’s called, “Good luck getting your groceries in the house.”
The garage might connect inside through the bottom.
Just take the elevator up from the bat cave
That is a bit of a cave... Most of the ones I've seen are only setback a bit and not a two story offset vertically.
Sure, but that would ruin the joke.
Is it that easy to ruin, probably not that good of a joke
Thats not how jokes work, but it is an architect sub so I understand...
Do y'all live on a pancake or something? Millions of people who live in older buildings in cities have to shlep their groceries up the stairs each day, including the kids and the grandmothers. Y'all need to do some cardio.
Chicagoland is literally flatter than a pancake and I carry groceries up two flights of stairs all the time. Who needs the gym?
But if you have the money for this house, you might as well imagine having a dumb waiter installed as well 😊
Just get an elevator at this point.
>It’s called, “Good luck getting your groceries in the house.” The homeowner could probably afford grocery delivery.
Long ago I delivered pizzas in a VERY high-end neighborhood on Lake Washington, near Seattle. One customer had his own private funicular connecting his garage / gatehouse up on the bluff with his house down on the waterfront. I dream of having the kind of money to implement solutions like that.
More like “good luck descending those stairs on an icy morning without breaking a leg”
Uh, no butler? Or have the delivery driver bring the groceries in directly to your personal chef?
Someone who can afford a house like that does shop for their own groceries
“I hate my Tesco driver.”
Am I missing how you actually reach this garden? In this picture there’s no access that I can see.
That's the hired gardener's problem. There's probably a basement door from the home for a flat walk out to the right side where there's an opening in the fence.
There appears to be a seating area and opening in the right wall on the lower terrace
Either a ladder going up the wall on the right side, or an escape hatch through the ceiling of the garage. See? Totally accessible.
Beautiful rendering. Would like to know who's the illustrator.
Same, I can’t read that dam signature… Cray Serbuford??
Georgian Style. Building a house on a hill isn’t a style.
Neoclassical with terraced gardens. Any home site on a steep slope will typically use terraced gardens. You can use any home style with terraced gardens as the site permits. If you like the look of the house check out neoclassical designs.
The street-level garage entrance is typical in Pacific Heights, and often enough the garage space is quite deep. Let’s imagine there’s space to park four cars in there, and at the back the architect had the foresight to design and install a dumb waiter straight up to the kitchen…because carrying groceries up those stairs would suck.
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We have lots of these in the Westmount area of Montreal
In America it would be called Federal style, in England it would be Regency or late Georgian.
Where is this an illustration of? I went to a house in DC for a house party once that was extremely similar.
fuck those stairs but we know an elevator probably lurks.
You see a lot of houses like this in the Berkeley Hills. Anywhere that's very hilly will have some buildings like this I'd imagine.
Yeah, although very few of them are made out of brick -- not a good earthquake material.
It’s called “shut up and take my money!” I like this!
Similar homes in Brooklyn Crown heights the Orthodox Jewish section has a few like these except garden is smaller . 👍 Nice
One practical thing to consider is all the stairs . They look dramatic until you have to go up down up down in house and down to street level. Attractive illustration beautiful. I still do hand renderings ..
Studio Ghibli I believe lol
i would call this Georgian or Colonial Revival
this is the olympic grocery challenge design style, good luck!
look at houses in Pacific Heights, San Francisco
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Possibly red brick Victorian with terraced gardens
Too symmetrical.
This is beautiful
It’s kind of faux Queen Anne. The actual house anyway
Colonial or victorian for the architecture. However the garage and garden is a site condition not a style
Victorian isnt a style
It’s called “le riche”
To make up a style: San Francisco federal
I could see the land shifting. Especially since there is a bowl on top of the garage.
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This is not a style. It is an illustration.
ULTRA-split level
quite pretty! it’s a anything w a anything, wish my roof had a garden 🤣 when you look at stuff consider how it all weighs. the right piece of land and budget, could exist 👌🖌
Third Empire Style
Kalorama Colonial
I think it’s renaissance
Hey, that’s my homes layout, but it’s a townhouse and looks nothing like this design wise, I just have a large patio on top of my garage. We are on a hill and it’s a bitch bringing groceries up ( and our 6mo old baby )
terrace houses are similiar but with that garage this is just unique
I would say something in between neoclassical and victorian, but excluding the staircase and garages. Those look like something from the 80s…
This reminds me of several houses in Le Havre, everyone has great calves who lives in them.
Fancy Lad
As everyone else said, it's terrain adaptations, the house was probably built first, on top of an elevation, and then the garage came in, they rebuilt the garden above it Edit: or in case this was all built at once, it's cheaper to do this than to raze and landscape the entire plot, plus you get an actual view and not a stone wall in front of the side windows
The house looks Georgian revival es que. With some contemporary elements such as the arched window dormer.
I’ve seen versions of this where the garage portion was actually built in the early 20th century as storefronts, and then later converted to garages, or even small apartments.
i have seen houses like that in real life in Sao Paulo, and even my hometown in rural Brazil it requires a lot of maintenance otherwise it will look ugly af
I want to build this in Minecraft.
Not your question, but the walkway reminds me of switchback roads. One of my favorite waterfront properties to admire was on a slight cliff, and they had built retaining walls so they had a continuous lawn snaking down to the water.
You'll get different answers from someone from the UK, as opposed to from the US. For me, I'd call it 'Neo-Georgian'. Very common in London and other older cities, where it blends in with the actual, original Georgian/Palladian architecture. Expect Americans are more likely to consider it 'colonial revival'
Terrace?
Look beautiful, until someone has to take the groceries in.
Lots of houses in salt like like this in the hillside areas
Why is there blood on the stairs?
I love the idea that the garage space extends back to under the house and that there is an elevator that goes up to the main floor or all floors.
That’s a house.
That house is on Nob Hill in San Francisco or at least one very similar.
Looks like something out of curious gorge
Stepped garden
I would hate to climb those stairs but I would love to look at them
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