Comments on: Hut on Sleds by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects

By: @RyanTee82

@RyanTee82 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:42:00 +0000

It’s gorgeous, but why is the tractor photoshopped into the picture?

By: @ArchitectsCCCA

@ArchitectsCCCA — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:42:22 +0000

Too right Mario! However we have since designed the family a custom built table and chairs so I'm afraid there isn't much eating off knees anymore – CCCA

By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:53:00 +0000

Design: A+
Nice design and the operable enclosure when not in use is clever.

Mobility: D-
It is hard to believe that this little tractor could drag this load one inch let alone 100s of feet across sand – a material that likes to stymie movement. In the past I was a caretaker for a property and I tried to drag a small one story 8 ft x10 ft wood shed on grass with a tractor larger than this and the tractor almost flipped just before the engine quit. Wood is heavy stuff even with rails. A movie would have been nice to prove your primary claim for this unique design.

By: jnz

jnz — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:21:00 +0000

The old cottages on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, USA were typically moved from Sound- to Ocean-side and back again with the seasons. A tremendous feat given that trip was about 1/2 mile one way and the houses didn’t have a built-in mobile/sled aesthetic. No indoor plumbing either… but I digress….

By: Gavin.C.Kirby

Gavin.C.Kirby — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:34:12 +0000

There's some wonderful attention to detail going on here, both visually and in terms of functionality. A really very intelligent design, and one making clever use of the local planning requirements.

Personally, and it is a personal thing, but I would've liked to have seen more finishes, textures with the interior wood, as a counterbalance to the more rustic, natural, weathered finish of the exterior.

I have to say, I don't think that the rear is particularly well resolved, lacking the clever design of the main building, and dare I say it, looking rather more Portakabin (though given it's context, it's probably rather apt actually), and because of this it feels like the building is lacking an overall coherency. Which is a shame.

That said, it really has that wonderful mid-century modern feel that The Hamptons had, before it was infected by those newly minted 1980's folk, with lots of money, little taste and a penchant for the ghastly.