For those who might consider moving to the hills and building a dream home, here is a good look:
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Not too far from the recent wildfires in NorCal.
Boy, can you imagine? Go to all the trouble of designing and building for years, and have a fire blow through and turn it to dust in minutes?
I hope it’s still standing!
So many city dwellers go into denial when they move into wilderness areas. There’s plenty you can do in design, construction, and preparation to defend against wildfires if you’re willing to acknowledge the risk (and spend a little extra $$$). For example:
http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-re-fire25nov25-story.html
“Garrett rushed to his garage, where he kept 15 gallons of a flame-retardant spray called Safe-T-Guard. Using a garden sprayer, he applied the clear liquid to his 5,500-square-foot home’s decks, eaves and wood siding.
Though houses up and down Garrett’s street burned in the blaze, his remained standing. Garrett later found a 3-inch-long blackened ember that had been blown onto his deck. The wood around it had charred but hadn’t caught fire — thanks, he said, to the spray.”
The recent Norcal fires happened too fast for even that kind of action, but for the home pictured above, it would not add that much cost to include an automated interior/exterior fire suppression system that could douse the house with fire retardant or even water from that pool, activated by temperature sensors around the property perimeter.
How many people in California have pools but have no way to spray that water out onto their roof?
So that is what happens when you mash up the Stahl house (Pierre Koenig), with Domus Solaris (Buff and Hensman). I wanted to like it, but I think they would have been better off just riffing on another Pierre Koenig house – the Johnson House..
I think thanks to the internets, people in fiery area’s might be getting wiser to the alternatives to having everything they love turn to ash. There’s not much excuse for house burning down in a forest fire scenario at this point.
I know it may sound bad, but for me, it’s darned hard to muster sympathy for folks who meet their punch in the face halfway. It’s like someone complaining about a shark attack…
“Dude… you were in Australia. You were swimming in Shark’s Cove. There was a big sign on the beach that said, “Danger! Sharks!” Before you entered the water, you yelled, “Eff Sharks!” It was “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel…”
What a magnificent residence Jim.@ Ross O, the swimming pool will have a reasonably high pressure pump (750 watt to 2 Kilowatt) needing the attachment only of a valve and hose fitting to provide almost as many litres per minute as the local fire brigades lorry. The problem comes in when the fire has already cut the electricity. A small petrol powered device could perhaps provide the solution?