Healy Guest House
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 | Healy Guest House |
| Designer | Ralph Twitchell |
| Location | Siesta Key, Sarasota |
| Date | 1948 to 1949 |
| Building Type | small house |
| Climate | warm |
| Context | waterfront |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | 3575 Bayou Louise Ln Walk Score |
| Notes | with Paul Rudolph. 735 sq ft. shallow hanging catennary roof made of plastic sheet. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Healy_Guest_House.html |
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"The Healy Guest House is small...only 735 square feet in area. The plan is rectangular, with a porch and a balcony on the river side. The roof is interesting: a simple catenary roof spanning 22 feet was developed, using flat steel bars at 12 inch centres, spanning between the more normal post and beam construction of the flanking sides. A sprayed plastic finish was used to complete the roof and steel tension straps employed to tie it in. The architect claims that it should have been designed as a single volume. He is right, but it was not—four separate spaces are provided under the concave ceiling."
— Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p171.
The Creator's Words
"A tension roof structure spanning 22 ft. (I could not wait for a longer and therefore more appropriate span—which renders this an exercise in structural exhibitionism) poised at the water's edge with breathing walls and a spirit of light-heartedness. It should have been one room because of the volumes of space defined by the curving roof, but it is actually divided into four spaces, and the resultant segmental spaces are not satisfactory."
— Paul Rudolph. The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. p34.
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Yukio Futagawa. Paul Rudolph. Introduction and notes by Rupert Spade, photographs by Yukio Futagawa. London. Thames and Hudson 1971. color photo of general view of house and foliage screen, f3.
William S. Saunders. Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. grayscale photo of exterior, p180.— A wonderful & inspiring book of beautiful photographs by a true master of architectural photography. Available at Amazon.com
Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. interior and exterior photos, plan drawing, p171. indexed, p427. — Available at Amazon.com
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