Weird Wednesdays: The Bart Prince Residence in New Mexico

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This weird Wednesday offering is a residential home in New Mexico and the only detailed descriptions and photos I could find were in an architectural magazine: The Guide to New Mexico Architecture.

This architect’s unusual residence and separate studio gallery are quite special for Albuquerque. The visual complexity of the residence’s unique series of volumes disguises an architectural diagram that is best described from the top down. The top floor is a long, flattened tube placed parallel to the long dimension of this very narrow site. Four cylindrical, hollow pillars (aligned along this long dimension) support this tube and all the major enclosures. A large circular volume engages the western two pillars, and a smaller circular volume engages the eastern two pillars. The visual complexity is accomplished by exposing all the supporting beams and columns and the addition of surface art to walls, balcony railings, window and door treatments, beam ends, and other opportunities that present themselves.

Windows on the south-facing facades of the house take advantage of the long southern exposure of the site. Three light scoops on the northern portion of the third-floor roof capture southern sun in the winter and bring it into the northern part of that volume. The cylindrical library tower was appended to the residence’s southern face in 1990; the dramatically linear studio gallery, built in the 2000s, stands alone—albeit sitting atop a smaller stuccoed structure—just to the north of the residence.

SOURCE:  20 Aug 2019 Unique By violetzolt

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  2. some lighthearted stuff from Gab

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      1. Hi Filly 🙂 I had a bunch more stuff lined up to share but got kicked off the library computer because there were actually people waiting to use them, which almost never happens. I never even got back on my own system until just now…which that’s possibly even rarer 🙂

        Our son Brandon had returned to our house w/ our dog after an extended hunting weekend so there were many stories to share & a hand drawn map of the hunting zone to decode–lots of fun but it also wore me out LOL ❤

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