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My House of Cards
Okay, so maybe my house of cards isn't the greatest form of architecture per say but I wasn't exactly going for the strongest building. Instead, I hoped to build a house based on balance (whether it be a strongly balanced building or in my case a swaying, weak one).
I built the house so that the entire structure would sit on two parallel cards. The four story home has a central tower which has several outward sectors which balance upon the central tower. One side of the building has full rooms while the others have decks or balconies. Of course everyone must use their imagination here.
"House of Cards" game was created in 1952 by Furniture Designers Charles and Ray Eames. The avant garde card game is the product of a collection of interests including in film, architecture, environment, toys and photography.
Packaged in two decks of fifty-four cards, one the Picture deck, the other the Pattern deck, each card has six slots enabling each eight-ply stock card to interlock with one another.
I've used the medium-sized, 4.5 x 6.87 inch cards whereas the earliest versions of the game had the average 2.5 x 3.5 playing cards.
Labels: architecture, charles, eames, house of cards, lucia, ray
posted by Andy Stettler at
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