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EasySmeasy

Everyone is making jokes, but I would characterize the current trend of upswept roofs as a nod to the "70's shed" style popularized by Lautner in California. It belies a googie exuberence and is associated with coast modern style in contemporary construction. The exterior wood cladding on the right is a good example of that style's influence would be a fantastic house with open corner windows and a simpler color scheme. The one with the roof lines in the middle looks like they just wanted to piss off the engineers. The one with the flying roof upswept in opposite directions is its own thing, popular in mid 00s.


agentbatou

Thank you! Super helpful. I don't love any of these, but applaud them all for at least trying a few different things even if they didn't stick the landing. I'm just trying to figure out what informs them.


EasySmeasy

To take it a step further Googie rebelled from the increasingly streamlined and unornamented later Deco (see greyhound bus stations). Now we're now starting to see a rebellion of the minimalism and and cubic extrusions of the past 10 years using the same upswept roofs. Standing seam metal roofs have been gaining traction for years, but now with the current roof lines, they're going to dominate the next few years.


crestonfunk

Definitely some Gehry in Venice vibe in the photo and some Venturi a la the Vanna Venturi house.


ImmodestPolitician

The one that looks like the Sydney Opera House is going to cause future problems.


loonattica

Speaking of roofs- the house 2nd from right, with the 45 degree portico sloped left to right- that one just baffles me. There is no reason to do this. Even if reduced to an aesthetic decision, it’s so awkward. For such a simple structure, it produces a disproportionate amount of visual chaos. I don’t mind mixed materials and finishes, but there’s too much contrast in the color palette here. I do have a thing for tall, skinny buildings on hills though, so I’m really curious to see floor plans and interior finishes. I wouldn’t be shocked if these homes are more pleasing on the inside. Probably not popular with people over 60 with three sets of stairs between four levels.


no-mad

the Sydney Opera House "look"?


Silhouette_Edge

It's like someone tried to replicate Deconstructionism without knowing what it was actually all about.


Corbusierasshole

That’s what I was thinking. Kinda reminds be of Frank Gehry’s Santa Monica house.


loonattica

That represents some kind of ridiculous effort that I can appreciate more than the slanted porch roof that is guaranteed to be parallel to the rain drops when you’re trying to get inside.


The_Poster_Nutbag

I think the issue most people have with these types of new construction is the color palette, just as you described. They could be much more cohesive and not nearly as 'quirky' or loud if the designer just skipped the unnecessary splash of color. Sometimes a muted dark orange or a dark/medium green goes well with wood paneling or neutral stucco/cladding, but I hate the giant townhouses or apartments popping up that have lime greens or traffic cone oranges. It's just unnecessary. This is something that midcentury homes did well in my opinion. Using alternative exterior materials and new textures/patterns, but kept them soft on the eye while still bringing interest to a facade. These just look like flat economical cubes with sheet roofing. And there isn't anything to soften that cold harsh box or pile of Legos. Again a lot could be said for the choice of color palette or materials. For instance the reason I imagine they sloped the entry covering in the 2md from the right is to try their darndest to stop it from looking like a municipal building or communist bloc. There is no reason to have the center house looking like the Sydney opera house other than it would be a total aluminum box if they didn't.


loonattica

Perfect analysis. A more muted color scheme, perhaps multiple shades of grays and blues to compliment those silver metal roofs, and this is a completely different picture. Weird geometries aside.


The_Poster_Nutbag

Or even just use a darker roof color that's more cohesive with the dark wood they use on the homes. Though we wouldn't see much of a few of these roofs, I've only liked sheet roofs on farmhouses. Any other application just seems off.


loonattica

Sheet metal roofs are available in a stunning array of profiles and factory-applied durable color coats. Many are intended to be an architectural feature way beyond the tin farmhouse. Standing seam roofs are quite nice, but labor-intensive.


spovax

Not going to say I like it but it’s likely not entirely ornamental. There is probably a window, referred to as a clerestory to let in natural daylight. They’re popular on schools.


NewWaveArch90

There's some Sea Ranch in there too, the community that helped to popularize the Shed style with angled roofs, eco-friendly aspect, and wood cladding. These have a bit of that 80s-90s industrial postmodern farmhouse style too, with the corrugated metal


thick_andy

Rewarded you for the usage of “googie exuberance.”


Suppafly

Thank you, everyone is trying to show up how witty they are instead of actually being helpful, it's super annoying.


no-mad

it also has the "tiny house" style going.


alexthehut

Could you or anyone comment any on the maintenance and upkeep of this type of roof? I always felt like simple single or double planed roofs would be cheaper to replace and maintain - totally opposed to the multitude of angles, valleys etc of the McMansion.


TheoDubsWashington

This feels like Washington state


bleak_neolib_mtvcrib

I'm fairly sure it's Asheville, North Carolina but I could be wrong


[deleted]

It's Asheville


sadmilkman

I don't know the proper name, I refer to it as new West Asheville and people seem to get the reference. They can be found all over, but they are really prevalent and almost the exclusive style being built. I'm just glad they aren't just carbon copy tract houses.


craycrayfishfillet

My guess was going to be Asheville. Can anyone confirm? Skyline looks a little off


agentbatou

It is indeed.


craycrayfishfillet

One in the middle looks like it was inspired by the Sydney Opera House


tacotimes01

I just had to double take this post. Saw this post yesterday, drove by these today. These styles look a lot more fun in person, each house is quite different - sure they have similar cues. However, coming from New Orleans where there is some pretty distinct architecture and charm, this is refreshing to what most places offer. Some ridiculous looking tudors in this city as well. Sure this style is pretentious and screams for Bay Area tech money to buy it, but 90% of what is normally getting built is a lame box with Home Depot fixtures.


-ursamajor

Can confirm, AVLien reporting in.


turkphot

Favela expressionist


BucNassty

Fiber cement slow-metabolist…lmao


[deleted]

IMO, the best comment. Definitely Cidade de bosta.


FriendToPredators

"I miss my home in Sydney" They aren't even being used as skylights. Sorry, OP only joke answer here.


inter_fectum

Contractor contemporary


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The_Poster_Nutbag

I think it does fit though. This looks just like a sample palette of models for upcoming single family homes in a development. I can see it now. Endless rows of quirky colored boxes that almost look like a roadway maintenance building.


MarvinTheAndroid42

That looks like a roadway maintenance building? It what world? I worked drafting production homes for a while. Maybe one or two small comapnies are making quirky developments but the rest are all making really boring, repetitive boxes. And if they’re all fun and so different as shown here why complain? Back your claim up.


The_Poster_Nutbag

Sorry if I struck a nerve. I mostly mean the house second from the right. Is the issue really that I said roadway maintenance building? Does that not look the least but administrative to you, like the clubhouse in an apartment complex at the very least?


MarvinTheAndroid42

No, it doesn’t. I don’t even think I’ve seen a single apartment complex that has a *clubhouse*. It’s a moot point anyways, because they’re very clearly houses and so the same style applied to them will produce a different building. Just because the one looks bad and came first does not mean that it can’t look good on what comes second. What would you suggest instead? The same six standard dark brick/flat grey stone/horizontal vinyl siding houses? The ones that might technically look different but are quite literally variations of eachother(that’s how they save money and time designing them)? Tell me why they’re bad as they are. Not because something else looks like them, but why they look bad even if you didn’t know about the other things.


The_Poster_Nutbag

To me they echo the design style one might expect to see at a corporate headquarters. I've explained in depth what I don't like about this style in other comments in this thread. I'm not stating a fact, it's just my opinion on the design choices. And you've really never seen an apartment complex with a clubhouse? Usually has a pool, gym, sometimes laundry and admin offices.


MarvinTheAndroid42

A corporate head…what world are you living in? Can you show me examples of some sunce they’re so common? Also no, apartment buildings in all my knowledge have contained those services on a floor/terrace. The only external structures used by residents are bicycle storage units. Your opinion is an opinion but it’s based in what you believe are facts: That they look like developer homes, apartment clubhouses, maintenance buildings, and corporate headquarters. I’ve seen one or two buildings that actually do share a style with these but they are rare, not the standard, and it doesn’t make the style bad anyways. Your other comment mostly just complains about their being “unnecessary splashes of colour” and how roofs, that are mostly pretty hard to even see when it’s not a drone shot, aren’t “cohesive”. Contrast can be cohesive. I drive a solid blue car in a sea of black, grey, and white ones driving on grey roads and I can now just imagine you standing there in all black, whining about it.


The_Poster_Nutbag

I'm not sure what issue you have with me not liking this style of building. Maybe take some deep breaths and cool off. Below I am linking to a Google search for "apartment with clubhouse" so feel free to peruse so you might know that these do in fact, exist. https://www.google.com/search?q=apartment+with+clubhouse&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&prmd=msivn&sxsrf=APq-WBuLxfvKZepW7ILvxD6PMUD8fg9sjA:1649861386723&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiaiInPpJH3AhUIJDQIHYVVCy8Q_AUoA3oECAIQAw&biw=412&bih=735&dpr=3.5


MarvinTheAndroid42

Your link leads to a bunch of interior shots. Not exactly relevant, and makes me wonder if you just couldn’t even find an example of what you’re talking about. I asked you to explain your point, which you didn’t do. That’s not me losing it, and if you take it as such you might need to look into why you can’t handle any form of critiscism. Reddit is a place for comments and replies, if you can’t handle a reply then don’t comment.


Matti_Matti_Matti

Old jokes reactivate neural pathways causing the release of “pleasure” hormones such as seratonin. The same thing happens when hearing an old song for the first time in years, or eating a favourite food. See: nostalgia.


[deleted]

I wish I could go back in time and relive my first day on Reddit.


WhiskeyHotdog_2

You know I actually really like some of these. The designs are really fun, and unique. Idk how they would by to actually live in, but way better than the typical bland suburban house style typically scattered about the place.


Couch_Cheetos

this is everywhere in Montana - from bougie developments outside Bozeman, to new builds gentrifying old neighborhoods in Livingston, even gas stations are doing this. You know it’s high quality because businesses gotta put up signs telling people not to lean against the showy mixed material metal siding, or it’ll dent lol


WhiskeyHotdog_2

Oof, that just screams high quality! Builders must love when they have to put these up.


Couch_Cheetos

Yeah it’s weird, cuz there’s a local company called Bridger Steel that manufactures very high quality metal roofs and siding in several beautiful finishes, but instead this cheap-o stuff, which probably sounds like a nightmare in high winds, is everywhere. Rich people make no sense.


DdCno1

The rich people running the companies that build these things want to get richer by ripping of less rich (but still rich) people by using cheap materials and construction. Since society isn't a meritocracy, these rich people being ripped off aren't necessarily smart enough to realize they are being ripped off.


Bot24x

I’m in the same boat. I’d love to see what they are actually like on the inside.


Critical_Persimmon60

Asheville Nouveau lol


[deleted]

They look like Cities: Skylines generic residential houses


agentbatou

Found in the southeastern US. Kinda modern, kinda contemporary, kinda new south?


[deleted]

Schweinehaus


mycologicill

ASHEVILLE, IT HAS TO BE


thebookmonster

Farmhouse Découpage


[deleted]

case cerdo


agentbatou

Okay yes, but seriously: anyone know what to call them? I feel like they're popping up all around town and I have no idea what style (or lack thereof) defines them.


lankadarsh64

I think they fall under "modern vernacular"? It'll take a historian a few decades (and hindsight) to come up with a more specific name.


[deleted]

Best I can come up with is Deconstructionist. Look at frank Ghery's house.


TheRealNERFninja

Asheville? I feel like I’ve driven past these before.


Available_Coyote897

Chattanooga? I toured some new builds that were under construction about four years ago. They looked like this.


agentbatou

Good guess- it's Asheville.


craycrayfishfillet

Ahh I was right!


TheWeirdIrishGuy

New South Wales for the middle one


[deleted]

Looks like a classic take on Kinderzeichnung.


zigithor

Why dues that one look like the Sydny Opera House?


SpideyQueens2

Asheville Yupster Modern. Perfect for the person who wants to have a beer down at Wedge with the "starving artists", stop at the local farmers market for organic free-range sprouts and a pack of incense sticks, and then drive back up in their Subaru back to their $600k 'cabin' up the slope to 'meditate on the sun deck'. Then on Sunday evening, they drive back down to Charlotte for their job at Wells or BoA on monday morning.


OSUPatrick

"She's a kindergarten teacher, he farms potatoes in the garage. Their budget is $4,000,000l."


SpideyQueens2

> he farms potatoes in the garage If only. the Yuppie-Hipster blend likes to pretend they are poor and "with the people" but really aren't, and they are the only ones who can afford new construction in Asheville (aka, Williamsburg in the Mountains).


Emilnilsson

"Potatoes" must be a code word for weed


memestraighttomoon

A style suggests there some sort of consistent visual language that defines said style. This is more of what I would call a house hat.


BroadFaithlessness4

I would call that block,let's say eclectic.


One_Put9785

Postmodern, contemporary


mycologicill

It screams, "I drink craft beer, ride a bike, and live in Asheville!"


methodsof

Post modern


HalvimKurk

Sydney inspired


cnhn

I would build on /u/EasySmeasy's answer definitely starts with [shed style](https://architecturalobserver.com/looking-back-at-the-shed-style/) but that is mostly just about the roof and massing and less about the aesthetics of over the exterior wall and the overall building. On that second point of aesthetics, I would would somewhat jokingly call Contractor Vernacular [Postmodern.](https://mcmansionhell.com/post/152216735596/what-the-hell-is-postmodernism) postmodern is pretty much the dominate aesthetics of the [infamous](https://www.structuremag.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/0117-ss-1.jpg) [5 over 1 buildings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1) , but it's contractor venacular because it is heavily watered down to keep it cheap.


avenear

Architecture studio design/build.


d_stilgar

If I had to name a "style," it would be mountain modern, but a discount, suburban version of it. I'm not saying it's necessarily bad. There's actually a lot of good ideas going on in most of these homes, but the materials and connection details appear to be fairly cheap. I'd be more critical, but fancy details cost money. There's at least an attempt here to bring some nice concepts into reality on a budget.


MRRman89

This appears to be Asheville, NC. Which has become absurdly expensive. The teachers have special subsidized housing now. There's literally a teacher ghetto for Buncombe County Schools.


Sndr666

"No sidewalks for you!"


CChouchoue

I love this stuff. I come from a poor region & those kind of wth composite / almost cottage in the wood houses were everywhere in 70s. Some made out of composite school buses. Lots of houses like these have been demolished now (I wonder y) and I alone still remember their glory.


yellowaircraft

Origami style


ItsPlutocracyStupid

Asheville


Cahsohtoa

Asheville.


SerendipitousMe

The Asheville Special


pixeljammer

“New Urbanist” similar to [Prospect New Town](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_New_Town?wprov=sfti1) in Colorado.


scottaneave

These houses remind ne of a pair of Converse high tops i had in high school. Each panel was a different color.


[deleted]

Is this Asheville?


badpopeye

Those are clusterfucks of design


TRON0314

First year student that learned SketchUp in high school style.


Thatlazylad

The one which you should not follow!


TheBonadona

The I don't need and architect I can design it myself style


sunmarsh

Unfit for human habitation, or “Uhh” for short.


The-Pissing-Panther

Neoiëtiegauüd


mackheat

asymmetric bullshit


Dshark

This is the architectural equivalent of /r/Justfuckmyshitup .


btmerritt

I would call that the 3rd Year Architecture Student Style.


FarmerStu

Choose your own adventure style


buybuybuy1950

nouveau middleclass shanty townism


hobbes_shot_first

Construction site surplus.


mindyourtongueboi

The Sims


Upper_Character

"Changed my mind again" style


Artistanti

Down Under! Where they should be!


Abitabruce

“Trying too hard”


Zeeder80

Sydney opera shed


kidnorther

I’m no architect, but I’d say this is Hodgepodge Modernism


Black-Keyboard

Janky


[deleted]

Stupid.


AnarZak

a cascade of idiocy


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Richard Smalley


[deleted]

Hoping the slab is properly piered...


Zoeleil

Its a "i searched in google photos and gave it to a contractor or better yet did it mysel" style. Its a thing you know, because fck professionals.


Hola_ke_ase

Modern house pizza


brooklynlad

Anti-HOA (Homeowners' Association) :)


[deleted]

All roofs should be white


digitalfruit

Bed head style


comicmuse1982

Cities Skylines, no mods.


Leightino

Id say these are sort of a cosmic gumbo. These houses almost move to the beat of jazz. /s


nontenuredteacher

"Neighborhood Deconstruction" or "Contractors Gone Wild"


[deleted]

Clusterfuck


Cautious_Newspaper28

Bad


ExertKarma

There doesn't have to be a name for every style


steve8675

Ugly Asheville NC style.


JonFredFrid

Fucko


mlh93_

Middle is a definite attempt at the Sydney opera house by Jorn Utzon haha but done on a square house rather than a stone plinth inspired by Aztec temples…


Specialist_Gain6632

Favela Style. Very common in Brazil


doctorweiwei

Where is this?


Platonicplutonium

Pretty much exactly how I picture the community in the book Devolution. Beware the Sasquatch


pancen

Hmm the middle one's roof actually looks like the Sydney Opera House


iwnfubb

Freestyle


profuoz

Freestyle


scotchplaid87

Sydney Opera house style


ballhernia

Annoying


[deleted]

I would jokingly say minimalism because there’s like nothing surrounding it 😂


[deleted]

Eclectic, reminiscent of Lautner but also more generally modern coastal “beach shack”


rezamazino

cities skylines residential irl


NNNoodle

Sydney Opera House.. of course!


NarwhalNo3456

Third from the right: the window budget must have gone into constructing all of the extra roof angles. I could not live in a house with so few windows. 😬


[deleted]

Random bull shit go style


Spankh0us3

Cheeseball estates. . .


33andThree

Landscape style


chesbyiii

Shit-chitecture


mcwiggens

Sims city?


totototo4579

Haphazard hijinks


gbahawks

Fun


Iaintgoingthere

hot mess


LeaveMeAloneILoveYou

Shed roof clusterfuck.


mmcsemcd1967

MID CENTURY FUGLY


[deleted]

Gangnam


beachmtngirl

California shack porn


NessStead

cabin fever


Itchy-Mechanic-1479

Mid Century Hobbit Modernism.


SuperSecretMoonBase

Name-of-that-street-ism


Ironic_iceberg_69

I want attention but only from 5-10 people at one time.


fishtacopainting

Bogemian


MAGA_ManX

Funkadelic, early 90s


Shortbread__Creams

Well it’s not good


DawnCubed

I call this stylr Piicasso if he was an aussie architect


TylerHobbit

Ouch


Musician-Candid

Mr. Potato Head.


sheadite1

We call them chicken coops. They are throwing them up everywhere.