Frank Lloyd Wright small single story, 2 bedroom home, Prairie School, PDF FILE

Description

American System Built Homes (single story model)
Building name: American System Built Homes (single story)
Designer/Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date of construction: 1926
Location: Milwaukie, Wisconsin
Style: Frank Lloyd Wright Style Home
Number of sheets: 4 sheets measuring 24" x 36"
Sheet List
Cover Sheet, Information, Perspective, Site Plan
Basement Plan, First Floor Plan, Section, 1/4"=1'-0", 3/4"=1'-0"
4 Elevations, 1/4"=1'-0"
Building Section, Fireplace, Window Details, various scales
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Frank Lloyd Wright, father of the Prairie School of design, was always interested in ways to reduce the cost of construction and make great architecture more affordable. With the "System Built" concept he explored the possibility of creating a kit of parts that could be assembled into a variety of different house plans. Only a few of these houses were built. This house, in Milwaukie, Wisconsin, is an excellent example. It shows the application of the kit to a single story design. The design demonstrates many of the qualities that make Frank Lloyd Wright's homes so livable. The entry sequence involves changes in direction, steps, increasing levels of enclosure, until, finally, at the heart of the house we reach the hearth. All the spaces in this house pinwheel around the fireplace, the glowing warmth at the center of the home. Just behind it Wright raises the ceiling, bringing natural light into what would have been the darkest space in the house. This stable, warm, sunlit center of the home contrasts with the edges, where windows, pressed to the corners of the rooms, dissolve the "box" of the structure.
As a work of art these prints are worth purchasing in their own right. For those of you interested in building a historically inspired house, these plans offer an excellent starting point. Essentially a single story house, it is built over a full basement. The main level includes approximately 900 square feet of conditioned space. The front porch adds another approximately 190. This design is most suitable for a flat site in which pleasant views may be had in all directions. With careful planning of terraces it could be adapted nicely to a moderately sloping site as well. This house would be comfortable in a suburb or country setting. Including porches, the main house has outside dimensions of approximately 32'x40'.
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IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUILD:
These plans are not complete architectural drawings as might be required by your local permitting agency and do not contain all the structural, waterproofing and other details and information necessary for construction. But your local builder or architect should be able to adapt these drawings and add to them as necessary. What they do provide is accurate design information about a REAL historic house, not a pseudo-historic tract house as you will find in the house plan magazines on your supermarket shelf
The original drawings from which these dimensionally accurate scans were made are kept at the Historic American Building Survey, in the Library of Congress.
(WR002 pdf)
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