stone cladding with exposed brick in contemporary house - Special Home Design – Homes by Burma

Contemporary Home Plans – There was a time, recently in fact, when the most important attributes of buildings were their aesthetic qualities, fitness for the intended purpose, & structural integrity. However sustainability objectives – paying closer attention to the soundness of the architecture from the point of view of the environment – are quickly becoming the overriding factors in contemporary home designs. Aesthetics is in the eye of the beholder, & it depends on the prevailing tastes of the time. A building’s functionality, or fitness, is a matter of how well it accommodates the purposes for which it was built. Its structural integrity means soundness – will the building last over time? Historicallyin the past speaking aesthetics has usually trumped fitness as the overriding factor in architectural design. Classical architecture was preoccupied with articulating features on walls & facades. Modern architecture is equally concerned with aesthetic formalities, such as form following function. Read the rest of this entry »