05-17-2010, 02:20 PM
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Originally posted by csgray...
As far as climate goes, I think these are more suitable than most of the houses we saw built here over the last 5-7 years that look like they were taken straight from an Arizona or Southern Cal suburb. The climate of the deep south is hot, humid, and prone to torrential rains with high winds. As long as you built with good deep eaves and line up doors and windows for cross ventilation I think they would work out just fine here.
Vernacular architecture like the shotgun shack are architectural styles developed over time by people living and building in a specific place, as a result it is architecture designed to work with the climate, not against it.
Carol
I totally agree with you!!
And the layout on the KC308 with the deck is just perfect to get under the 500 SF Guest house with deck issue if you leave the kitchen out, or instead of the studio designs that many of the lumber yards have (usually 16 x 20) this one actually in almost same SF gives you a bedroom.
Those are so adaptable to planation design!