Wright Chat

Can't find a dedicated Wingspread thread so ...
Several details of the project have caught my attention. Bringing them to attention here, no particular order.

1): Extensive "gutter" system in floors at all French Door lines first and second floors, Seems to indicate that Wright avoided this technical issue in the "ordinary" Usonians.
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6224826929
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6226807616

2): Drip detail at "clipped eave" fascia boards. Can't think of another house in which Wright eliminates overhanging eaves. Interesting to see him "incise" the fascia boards to shed water w/o gutters.
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6226928308
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6227004492

3): Structural framing of Living Room roof. Minimal steel is involved. Avery drawings are incomplete here, Not enough information to understand how this roof holds up. Or am I mistaken? Gutsy construction in any case.
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6227071065
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6227215888

4): Large dark storage space under Master Bed Wing. This condition seems unusual in Wrights post 1910 work. The opportunity here to create an open pass through to the terrace under a bridge seems lost. Surely that did not go unnoticed. Did Johnson have a lot of trunks or was something else going on?
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6227460514
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6227610634

"Not enough information to understand how this roof holds up"...well actually, not so well:

https://www.epoxyworks.com/index.php/an ... ingspread/

https://www.epoxyworks.com/index.php/st ... ingspread/

Duncan,
How did you ever come across this? Thank you.

Check out the free hand sketch in the lower right hand corner immediately above Wright's signature square. This is the Rosenbaum House. It's a drain detail at the threshold of the 'french' door line:

https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/285 ... 6765561274

That page doesn't open for me, on either of my devices. Is there an alternate URL ?

S

Tom, I remembered reading about the repairs to the Wingspread roof when the work was done, and just googled something like "Wingspread roof repairs". I think at the time it was published in the National Trust publication, but I no longer seem to have that around. i thought it was also discussed on this site, but I don't find that.

SDR, that page opens fine for me.

The Structural Repair of Wingspread


David

Thanks for the links.

In the meantime I'll work on posting the image of the Rosenbaum detail.