Narrowest House Contender?
18 02 2008Our intrepid photographers are always roaming the streets of Washington area looking to capture the latest developments around town. In our travels, we stumbled across this little project right off of North Pershing Street in Arlington. While not as narrow as our areas record holder, it sure looks like it’s going to be tight!
Why would someone do this? We understand the lot itself is narrow, but the proportions are just off! Maybe if the architect hadn’t made the front of the house a flat three story facade… either way, we dub this house the “Super Model House” tall and thin.
We will be sure to keep you posted when they start to add the exterior finishing because just like a model, the most important factor in determing if we like this project in the end will be what it looks like on the outside!
The proportions are definitely out of place for DC, but I could see something like this right at home in Amsterdam or Rotterdam.
I spent a good chunk of last year in the Netherlands and never saw anything this ridiculous.
the lot could’ve been a perfectly nice little park instead of a laughable little house…
Perhaps the narrow form serves some sort of passive solar purpose?
The builder is going to have a heckuva time selling this oddity.
Yodaskin - it’s unlikely that there would be much, if any, passive solar benefit for this house. The photographer was facing east when the photo was taken, so the right side of the photo is the southern exposure. There are very few windows on that side of the house.
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