BUILDING BUNGALOWS 



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ELEVATION OF HOUSE NO. 1 

 At Southern Pines, North Carolina. Aymar Embury II, Architect. 



failure or success. At the same time, the advantages of 

 the type are many. 



There is the total absence of stairs, for instance, and 

 an opportunity, in laying out the plan, of arranging the 

 rooms in such a manner that important rooms may have 

 two, if not three, walls with windows in them, assuring a 

 constant cross-circulation of air. The most popular ar- 

 rangement of rooms is that in which the living-room 

 occupies a central unit of the plan, with wings or extensions 

 at either side, in one of which is the service portion of the 

 house, with the dining-room closely connected with it 

 and adjoining the living-room. 



On the other side of the central room in this plan are 

 the sleeping-rooms, sleeping-porches, bath-rooms, etc. 

 The natural advantages of this arrangement are obvious. 



Being built usually on more or less isolated tracts of 

 land, where the surroundings are more often trees, or at 

 least broad expanses of lawn or field, the long, low lines of 

 the house "fit" far more naturally and 

 pleasingly into the landscape than the 

 bulk of a higher and smaller building 

 in ground area would. 



Greater opportunities are given the 

 designer by these conditions for interest- 

 ing composition in his design. And 



ELEVATION OF HOUSE NO. 2 

 At Southern Pines, North Carolina. Aymar Embury II, Architect. 



always the long, low, unbroken roof lines give the 

 house a feeling of homelikeness that is seldom secured in 

 buildings of greater height. 



Here, again, we come face to face with a certain amount 

 of wastefulness in the one-story arrangement of rooms. 

 Taking into consideration the previously mentioned large 

 expanse of roof necessary to cover the floor space below, 

 we find ourselves with a large amount of room under the 

 roof that, while it helps the general appearance of the 

 house, is, however, not easily made use of, excepting 

 possibly for storage or similar purposes. 



The insertion of dormer windows here will immediately 

 spoil the most interesting feature of the exterior design. 

 If we raise the roof high enough to get room height and 

 window space in the side walls below the roof, the char- 

 acter of the building is automatically and immediately 

 changed, and we no longer have a one-, but a two-story 

 house. Bed-rooms on the ground floor are now quite 



REAR ELEVATION OF THE HOUSE AT SOUTH 



RIVER 



Showing the office entrance and the court formed by 



the kitchen and bedroom wings. 



I"IE,3T FLOOR PLA/T. 



PLAN OF THE HOUSE AT SOUTH RIVER, MARYLAND 



Illustrating the most successful arrangement of the one-story house. Aymar Embury II, 



Architect. 



