Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Suburban. Feng Shui. Bliss.


The plan is everything. Everything about an architectural experience can be visualized by studying the plan.
This project was for a second generation builder who was, at this time, building for the expatriate Asians who wanted to own a large house in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia. Many of these houses are unoccupied much of the time and were built as Canadian safe havens in the event of dangerous political developments back home.
This builder sent me a note asking me to "do a Wayne Scott treatment" in the living room. After about an unfruitful day of research into who Wayne Scott was, I discovered that he meant wainscotting. The plan creates a comfortable experience with good feng shui. An opportunity for the collector to study a unique demographic from an architectural perspective. This is a 24" by 36" print, from a completely manually drawn original.