This is Day 226 of the Slow Home Project and we need you to join us in our quest to evaluate the design quality of houses in nine North American cities in nine months.
Today is our final “In Detail” episode and we are looking at parking in single family houses! All of our examples are from the Chicago area. We need you to go through the Chicago “Slow Home Project” data base and look for examples of single family houses that you think have both good and bad parking spaces and then post them to the site along with your comments. We look forward to the discussion!
When you are ready, click on the player below to watch John and Matthew’s tutorial on good and bad parking conditions in single family houses.
To see the examples from the tutorial in more detail, click on the thumbnails below.
1. This is a good parking condition. The double attached garage does not dominate the house, it takes only one third of the frontage and does not restrict light to any of the principal rooms.
2. This is also a good parking condition. The garage could almost be considered a “side attached” garage with all the service space for the house directly behind the parking.
3. This is a proportionately long and narrow house and because of this, the garage is barely acceptable. There is only one principal room that faces the front and this garage is on the verge of dominating the house.
4. This is poor parking condition where the three car garage dominates the house creates a large and really unusable side yard.
5. This is also a bad parking condition where over fifty percent of the house is taken up by parking and the living space is forced to wrap around the garage.
6. This parking condition is acceptable as the garage is pulled forward allowing the principal rooms to have light and it also could be detailed to create a nice entry condition.
7. This rear attached garage does not help this house as the dining room has very little light and the house has no back yard.
8. This rear attached garage condition is better, as a courtyard has been created to help reduce the impact of the garage on the back of the house.
Make sure to watch tomorrow for a special “live” Slow Home episode where we will be reviewing all the “Design Challenge” submissions and announcing the winner of our book prize!
