Plans of Jacobs House II

[julianapires]

Hi, I'm an architecture student from Brazil. I need to build a mockup of one of the Wright's houses. I'd like to ask for your help because I can't find good images of Jacobs House plans on the internet. I konow there are lots of books that contain that material, but I'm just a student. These books are too expensive! I need the scale, so I convert it and change to the size I want. Thank you all since then and sorry for the bad english!

[SDR]

Here are plan drawings of the two levels of Jacobs II. These drawings are found in "The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion" (© 1993 by William Allin Storrer, The University of Chicago Press), p 293.

The drawings should be credited to William Allin Storrer.

There is a scale indication in the lower right-hand corner.

If you wish me to provide you with my original scan (approx. 50% larger), please post your e-mail address.

[julianapires]

OMG thank you so much!
My email is [email protected]

I have no words to thank you!

[Unbrook]

The plans don't really show that the rear elevation of the house is an earth embankment and that only the second floor windows would be visible.[/img]

[SDR]

True. The first three pages of this Google Images file show multiple views of the house, and several plan drawings . . .

http://www.google.com/search?q=Jacobs+h ... art=0&sa=N

SDR

[julianapires]

I'd already noticed, thank you!

[SDR]

I did not look closely at the plans on the Google pages. None of them had a scale indication ? Interesting.

One way to protect an unprotected design document/property would be to make it unreliable, for instance by redacting certain essential data such as scale ?

SDR

[julianapires]

Yes, none of them. Or there are scale, but I couldn't see it because that images are too small or has low quality.

I agree with you. I couldn't do anything without scale.

[SDR]

So -- do keep us posted as to your progress. May I ask what your schooling consists of ? Are you a liberal arts, etc, student, or are you pursuing architecture as a profession or calling ?

Will you make a digital model of the house, or a material one ?

SDR

[Roderick Grant]

As to scale, it's quite difficult to intuit the scale of a FLW plan. Around 1915, a Dallas firm ripped off the Heath House, probably from "Ausgeführte Bauten," which includes no scale. They got it all wrong. It's a huge mess of a building (with a dining room bay cribbed from William Drummond's Dexter Ferry Project). FLW's scale was always intimate.

[Paul Ringstrom]

I found the Jacobs II house more like a log cabin in the woods and quite crude (second floor bedrooms) compared to the executed Sims House (in Hawaii) of a similar theme which was quite refined and very livable.

[DavidC]

I found the Jacobs II house more like a log cabin in the woods and quite crude (second floor bedrooms) compared to the executed Sims House (in Hawaii) of a similar theme which was quite refined and very livable.

Not only that, Laurent House - which was designed only a year after Jacobs II, I believe - has a distinclty higher level of refinement than does Jacobs II.


David

[classic form]

Second floor bedrooms are crude?

[Paul Ringstrom]

Second floor bedrooms are crude?

You obviously have never been in the house. The bedrooms lack such basic items as walls and doors.

[Unbrook]

I have always thought that part of the charm of the Jacobs II was its crudeness. Wasn't the second floor bedroom level suspended from the roof structure originally? What sells the entire plan for me is the slight curve of the main living area-creating different areas with in the context of one overall space. I remember reading every word of the book written about the house and trying to imagine myself living there.