coveted modern ranch

between dealing with the ever-clogging eaves and all the "trees of significance" around here, ted and i are hatching plans for our dream house. he wants a modern ranch, something kinda swank, i think, befitting his smoking-jacket and martini tastes; something with a roof he can fall off of without killing himself. i'm all for it, so long as we can have an interior courtyard.

my current plans for the home of our dreams derive both from mies van der rohe's tugendhat house and newark ohio's own baker house, the short-time location of my former employer, osu-n's department of physical facilities. (it's now home to some labs and the Newark Earthworks Center). the picture above is one of the ceramic peek holes in the oak wall behind the front door. it's like mies's onyx wall, just in a different place, and not translucent, and not onyx.

here are a few other images:













a portion of the facade. it's wide, even for a ranch. i couldn't stand back far enough to get it all in.













in addition to its interior courtyard and greenhouse (this used to be full of salmon colored geraniums), the baker house had an interior lap pool. the earthworks folks have added a sweat-lodge and native garden out back.













this used to be the living room. the tile fireplace with bench, some of the modern light fixtures, and the courtyard are visible. the door leads to the greenhouse.



















the statue (from one of the paris expo's, i'm not sure of the year) was added when osu-n took over the property -- and the healthy looking boxwood shrubs, sometime later.