Irving Gill - cottage architectural plans, modern + southwest style, stucco

Description

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Bella Vista Terrace - 1910
Decades before "modern" architecture became popular across the USA Irving Gill, in his work in southern California, developed an extraordinarily simple set of forms from the Mediterranean and Mexican traditions that he found there. His work was far ahead of his time and remains, even today, strikingly modern. But his home designs are never cold and heartless. They are designed for gracious and comfortable living. At Bella Vista Terrace in Sierra Madre, California, Irving Gill designed a complex of cottages around a central park. Each cottage also had its own small garden. The cottages contained only 1 bedroom but also included a sleeping porch with beautiful arched openings. These porches were later enclosed and turned into full bedrooms. This cottages are little know today but remain masterpieces of small home design.
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. These cottages ideally suited to a flat or low slope site, in an urban or suburban setting. Each cottage has outside dimensions of approximately 27' x 45'.
Building name:      Bella Vista Terrace
Designer/Architect:      Irving Gill
Date of construction:      1910
Location:      Sierra Madre, California
Style:      Mid-Century Modern Style
Number of sheets:      9 sheets measuring 24" x 36"
Sheet List
Cover sheet, Information, Axonometric view
Site Plan showing current state with history of site development
Site Plan showing project as originally built
Elevations, 1/8"=1'-0"
Sections, 1/8"=1'-0"
Axonometric view of 1 cottage
Axonometric of Pergola
Geometric analysis of design
Perspective views
The prints you are purchasing are crisp, high resolution black line copies on white bond paper. The original drawings were beautifully delineated in 1999, by the Historic American Building Survey. Photos shown in the description are NOT included in your purchase. This listing is for architectural drawings only.
Please view my other plans for more designs by Irving Gill and other 20th century architects.
SHIPPING: Your drawings are shipped to you, by US Postal Service, rolled, not folded, in a Priority Mail tube.
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 Modernist home, not a pseudo-Modern tract house as you will find in the house plan magazines on your supermarket shelf.
INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: Orders shipped to addresses outside the USA may be subject to customs duties at their destination. The buyer is responsible for any such duties.
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