What is a prairie house?
Style House is a home designed in accordance with the architectural style known as Prairie School. At the beginning of the 20th century, the architecture of school schools Prairie appeared as an alternative to traditional European design forms and a machine -based design. Characteristics typical of the exterior of the prairie house include strong horizontal lines, low -natural, scored roof with wide gutter and "stripes" of windows. The interior of the prairie house is designed to provide functionality and comfort and often contains open spaces, central fireplace and a large amount of natural light. After Wright was mentorized in 1893 by older architect Louis H. Sullivan, he founded a design company that tried to discard adorned European forms, then popular in America and preferred construction over mass production. Wright believed that houses should seem as an organic part of the landscape on which they are built. A flat, immediate landscape of the Midwest praerie thus PLow houses characterized by a strong feeling of horizontality and created a look that grew out of the ground.
The highly distinctive exterior of the prairie style can first be recognized by this receptive feeling of horizontality. It seems that the house is spreading across the ground rather than rising towards the sky. Its roof is almost always scoring or descending down on all sides, and this slope down is tend to be rather low -intersection than steep. In addition, it seems that the eaves or edges of the roof often protrude beyond the walls of the house, they seemed to reach towards the ground. Finally, the windows of the prairie style house are arranged in wide belts, which further emphasize the horizontal lines of the building.
Wright and his followers believed that the style of the house should serve the comfort of the owner and provide maximum functionality. The interior of the prairie house in general contains a wide open space that represents the main living space, which isvědomé vyvrácení viktoriánské tendence k rozdělení domů do malých místností. Rozdělení tohoto prostoru je často navrženo velkým centrálním krbem. Another element of the common interior of the prairie house is the abundance of natural light, which results from the conscientious location of the structure windows.