I watch all of your videos and always appreciate the things you do. This might be the most impressed I’ve been with these Wednesday consulting videos because of the difference you made between by introducing the classical elements to that building.
Your making me better every video. I'm exitied to use these principals on my next project! I hope I can turn your enthusiasm loose on the home owners. Thank you for sharing it really means so much to me. Love the pod!
What an interesting project. The end result looks great! The larger scale gives a glimpse into what public or commercial projects could look like if classically designed. I'd love to the end result of this or any of these consulting projects you have shown.
Hi Brent, great insight! I’m in the production home business… you are making me realize a lot of our shortcomings. Curious, who said “if you want honest community, build honest housing” ? Thanks for the content!
I watched this ages ago and now, tonight, again. Please show us an update! I found the whole building confusing. Does the drive-in opening go into that courtyard? It’s a strange building to turn into a home, and I’d love to see the progress. Thanks, always for the good work!
I completely agree with your approach to this project, both the facade and courtyard. I like doing this kind of thing myself, though the only education I have in it is 70 years of looking and thinking "what would I have done". I'm very interested to see someone apply good and well thought out architecture to one of those metal buildings, but not cover the metal. I'm a believer in being trashy with trashy looking buildings so I fantasize applied decoration. Fake windows and all. It'd be fun to see it.
@@BrentHull and thanks for these videos. They fill a real hunger in me. Thanks too for your fearlessness in championing beauty, especially when so little of the arts and architecture community do. You're a welcome rarity.
This was an existing building? Strange conversion it seems like starting over again would be easier to ensure the interior is beautiful and scaled appropriately but I guess they’re working with what they have.
The Lindley family built this frame farmhouse about 1905, but since 1912 it has been in the Coble family. The once simple house was adorned with a two-story verandah with
Another great video. I would try to bring the driveway in a loop up to the same level as the entry. But, to be fair you haven't had a shot at finishing those front steps how they might make sense.
I tried to cut and paste picture of old dairy barn with rock lower level and windows similiar to what you drew But if you are interested you can google coble dairy barn but i am sure you have seen thousands of old amish dairy barns
Another architect with a different vision might be able to embrace what the building is and “improve” it without laminating on “historic” details to disguise its simplicity. It is the owners taste and the vision/skill of the architect that makes it work.
I think the first sketch wasn't that bad and not much different that what you came up with. It just needed some touch-ups, like quoins, larger freeze, brackets, etc. I also think the belly band could have been incorporated with a better front entry (similar to yours). I think both yours and the first one are a bit lacking in the area right above where you enter and walk through. Both need to dress up that spot more (thus incorporating the belly band). Of course, this is just my opinion.
Can you help fix my house? It was built in 1950's. It was a very simple rectangle with a gable roof. Basically like a house piece from monopoly. Over the years it has had 3 or 4 additions added on. Currently it doesn't even have a front door.
My little town is suffering from these metal buildings. The old downtown is charming; the bypass, however, which is the center of growth and commerce and the only part that most visitors ever see, it is a generic sprawling, scattering of metal buildings, framed in empty concrete parking lots. The city planners and civil engineers have dropped the ball! The building facades don't even line up - they face whatever direction is convenient. They'll be perpendicular to one another - glaring windowless walls with utilities and dumpsters adjacent to the next building's one little strip of stucco and signage; and, they don't even make an attempt to correct it with landscaping. It is flat out ugly. But the cupola, I do believe, is the best fix for these metal buildings. I wonder if there's historical precedent that dictates whether a single or double(or more) cupolas is appropriate? Maybe double cupolas read as horse stables..i don't know, but i do like double cupolas. Love noticing them on barns in my travels.
This is the first time i think you missed the mark. But this roman/greek classical design may have been the direction the customer wanted? I would have taken your skill with regard to scale and made the structure look like an old Amish barn. Here in greensboro NC the was a massive barn built by German prisioners of war with wood siding and massive rock walls for the Coble Dairy. Keep your size for windows but just change the materials from stucko to wide board planks, from plastered collumns to large oak beams or rock collumns. Standing seam roof and keep the cupula
@@BrentHull another interesting thought is to build the front door up on a raised landing, then when they enter the home, there's a raised entry that then pours down to a "sunken" living space. You could also play with multiple levels in the court yard. Just some ideas.
Brent, I'm a carpenter with more than 30 years in remodeling and high-end restorations around the country. I would have loved working on any of your projects. We share the same love for these old houses and I have made some of the same calls on design suggestions, and for sure I listen to what the house wants to to tell me. I currently live in New Orleans. Love your channel. 100% on the same page.
I honestly don't think Brent's fixes will make this better. In fact, I think it would end up worse if you did these things. I think the best thing to do would be to lean into the modern stark look. The materials used just don't lend themselves to a classical style.
So much fun to watch the master transform a bland metal building to a masterpiece.
Haha. Thanks.
1) You need to update us on this when it's done! Wow!
2) I'm starting to understand the lingo! 🤗 Why does that make me sooo happy? LOL
Haha, will do.
What a transformation. Please share a video once the project is finished. I’d love to see it 👍
Will do.
Looking forward to see how this project turns out .... even the drawings got me excited. You know your craft real well Brent ! :)
Thanks 👍
This is such a great series!
I'm not sure I'm sold on this specific fix, but it is a difficult canvas you're working with there.
It really is! Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks.
I watch all of your videos and always appreciate the things you do. This might be the most impressed I’ve been with these Wednesday consulting videos because of the difference you made between by introducing the classical elements to that building.
Thanks for the feedback. Cheers.
Brent,
1. Your work and ideas are classy and spot on.
2. Given enough money you can turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
3. All the best!
Haha, thanks for watching. Much appreciated.
Your making me better every video. I'm exitied to use these principals on my next project! I hope I can turn your enthusiasm loose on the home owners. Thank you for sharing it really means so much to me. Love the pod!
Awesome. Thanks so much.
Very creative way to address the clients' request! It would be cool to see what you would do if it was up to you, i.e., your building.
Good point. thanks.
Looks good as always.
Thanks so much.
What an interesting project. The end result looks great! The larger scale gives a glimpse into what public or commercial projects could look like if classically designed.
I'd love to the end result of this or any of these consulting projects you have shown.
Thanks. Coming soon.
I look forward to these. Your touch is so informed and creative!
Thank you so much!
Interesting. I wouldn’t have a clue how to reconfigure a large metal building into something classical. I think you going in the right direction.
Thanks!
Hi Brent, great insight! I’m in the production home business… you are making me realize a lot of our shortcomings. Curious, who said “if you want honest community, build honest housing” ?
Thanks for the content!
Many of the plan book authors. William Strickland, William Ranlett. Thx.
Great job!
thanks.
I watched this ages ago and now, tonight, again. Please show us an update! I found the whole building confusing. Does the drive-in opening go into that courtyard? It’s a strange building to turn into a home, and I’d love to see the progress. Thanks, always for the good work!
Ok, yes, it is a little odd. Update video soon. Thx.
I completely agree with your approach to this project, both the facade and courtyard. I like doing this kind of thing myself, though the only education I have in it is 70 years of looking and thinking "what would I have done".
I'm very interested to see someone apply good and well thought out architecture to one of those metal buildings, but not cover the metal. I'm a believer in being trashy with trashy looking buildings so I fantasize applied decoration. Fake windows and all.
It'd be fun to see it.
I agreed. Thanks.
@@BrentHull and thanks for these videos. They fill a real hunger in me. Thanks too for your fearlessness in championing beauty, especially when so little of the arts and architecture community do. You're a welcome rarity.
Excellent example of elevate to direct the viewer. Are you doing the interior?
Hopefully. Yes.
Just curious, why would they build something like that if they wanted it to look "good". I love your fixes to each house, enjoying the channel.
Probably a pre-existing structure that they’re trying to convert into a house.
It just got away from them. Pandemic issues. Etc.
This was an existing building? Strange conversion it seems like starting over again would be easier to ensure the interior is beautiful and scaled appropriately but I guess they’re working with what they have.
Exactly.
The Lindley family built this frame farmhouse about 1905, but since 1912 it has been in the Coble family. The once simple house was adorned with a two-story verandah with
Thanks.
Wow that was a tough one!
AGREED!
Another great video. I would try to bring the driveway in a loop up to the same level as the entry. But, to be fair you haven't had a shot at finishing those front steps how they might make sense.
Thanks for the feedback.
I tried to cut and paste picture of old dairy barn with rock lower level and windows similiar to what you drew
But if you are interested you can google coble dairy barn but i am sure you have seen thousands of old amish dairy barns
Good thought. This one was tough.
Another architect with a different vision might be able to embrace what the building is and “improve” it without laminating on “historic” details to disguise its simplicity. It is the owners taste and the vision/skill of the architect that makes it work.
ok.
I think the first sketch wasn't that bad and not much different that what you came up with. It just needed some touch-ups, like quoins, larger freeze, brackets, etc. I also think the belly band could have been incorporated with a better front entry (similar to yours). I think both yours and the first one are a bit lacking in the area right above where you enter and walk through. Both need to dress up that spot more (thus incorporating the belly band). Of course, this is just my opinion.
Much appreciated. Thanks for the feedback.
How would exterior insulation work on this barn? The way I've seen it used in Europe might look better than bare steel.
This one is tough. I think Ext. insulation is a possibility.
Can you help fix my house? It was built in 1950's. It was a very simple rectangle with a gable roof. Basically like a house piece from monopoly. Over the years it has had 3 or 4 additions added on. Currently it doesn't even have a front door.
Of course. I do offer consulting. Send pics to info@brenthull.com Thanks.
rought-iron details in the twentieth-century. A handsome barn is also located on the property, built in the early 1940s by German prisoners or war.
Haha. good narrative.
it's alot easier to disassemble and sell a metal building and use foundation to build something beautiful
haha, except for the metal frame is pretty stout inside.
My little town is suffering from these metal buildings.
The old downtown is charming; the bypass, however, which is the center of growth and commerce and the only part that most visitors ever see, it is a generic sprawling, scattering of metal buildings, framed in empty concrete parking lots.
The city planners and civil engineers have dropped the ball! The building facades don't even line up - they face whatever direction is convenient. They'll be perpendicular to one another - glaring windowless walls with utilities and dumpsters adjacent to the next building's one little strip of stucco and signage; and, they don't even make an attempt to correct it with landscaping. It is flat out ugly.
But the cupola, I do believe, is the best fix for these metal buildings.
I wonder if there's historical precedent that dictates whether a single or double(or more) cupolas is appropriate? Maybe double cupolas read as horse stables..i don't know, but i do like double cupolas. Love noticing them on barns in my travels.
Thanks for sharing. I agree. I need to dig into historical barn designs to understand historical use for cupolas. Cheers.
This is the first time i think you missed the mark. But this roman/greek classical design may have been the direction the customer wanted? I would have taken your skill with regard to scale and made the structure look like an old Amish barn. Here in greensboro NC the was a massive barn built by German prisioners of war with wood siding and massive rock walls for the Coble Dairy. Keep your size for windows but just change the materials from stucko to wide board planks, from plastered collumns to large oak beams or rock collumns. Standing seam roof and keep the cupula
Thanks for the feedback. Good thought, just not right for this client.
I'm thinking more American Gothic. Think: house from the Steve Martin Goldie Hawn movie Housesitter (1992).
Nice! Thanks.
@@BrentHull another interesting thought is to build the front door up on a raised landing, then when they enter the home, there's a raised entry that then pours down to a "sunken" living space. You could also play with multiple levels in the court yard. Just some ideas.
I reference the house from that movie so many times, if only mentally.
Crazy to hear someone point it out! : )
Glad that someone else remembers it.
Brent, I'm a carpenter with more than 30 years in remodeling and high-end restorations around the country. I would have loved working on any of your projects. We share the same love for these old houses and I have made some of the same calls on design suggestions, and for sure I listen to what the house wants to to tell me. I currently live in New Orleans. Love your channel. 100% on the same page.
I honestly don't think Brent's fixes will make this better. In fact, I think it would end up worse if you did these things. I think the best thing to do would be to lean into the modern stark look. The materials used just don't lend themselves to a classical style.
I don't disagree. However, that's not what the customer wants. Thanks.
The fix for this one is to tear it down.
ha.
The very first thing to do is get rid of all that steel corrugated siding. It's ugly AF.
Haha. True.