Interesting Irish Houses

I think it’s charming. What’s the word for a roof that changes angle of slope at the eves like that?

bad bits: grey pebbledash, concrete groundwork, boxy extension with mismatched window.

@Blisterman wrote:

….One house, which I really like is theThink Tank Boathouse in Cork.
I can’t find any pictures of it online, but It’s really nice.

Agreed.

Pictures can be seen on the architects website.
http://www.gumuchdjian.com/
You’ll have to navigate as follows to find the info you want
Enter -> Projects -> Think Tank

This raises an interesting point from a web design point of view which applies to a lot of architects websites.
The Gumuchdjiansite is not linkable or indexable – as the site is built using Flash. Why on earth would you spend so much money on a web site and have it developed entirely in Flash?
One result is that I can’t link to the image of the boathouse from here – which would be like a free ad for the practice.
But the bigger impact is that searching for the award winning boathouse by name on google will not return the architect’s website in the top 100 results.
Even the very specific search “think tank boathouse gumuchdjian” doesn’t return any link to http://www.gumuchdjian.com
It’s like opting out of all the benefits of the internet. Am I missing something? Why would you do this?

I agree with Frank T on the bad bits. That extension window is horrid. “Sprocketed eaves” is a good description Ctesiphon but does that not apply to the fascia? The question was <>

The fenestration is unbalanced – too many glazing bars in the upper panes of the French doors and lack of symmetry in the window over the doors, although the same pattern is carried through to the window above the entrance. Looks like an example of the original Indian bungalow, complete with verandah, with the latter scaled down and the windows enlarged.

The “Think Tank” is nice, but it could never work as one for me, to much glass and water. The latter is always changing colour and texture, things happen on it and it leads to total distraction. As for the jetty stretching into the sea, well, that cries out for a boat to go sailing in and to hell with all thinking!
KB2

@KerryBog2 wrote:

“Sprocketed eaves” is a good description Ctesiphon but does that not apply to the fascia? The question was “What’s the word for a roof that changes angle of slope at the eves like that?”

To be precise (:) ), it’s a hipped roof with sprocketed eaves- I don’t know that there’s a term for the roof itself.

Aside from the poxy extension, I do like it too, even the pebble dash and render trim- too often original finishes can be altered/painted over for a variety of reasons and it’s nice to see a house that seems to be valued for its own sake, and that is a well-maintinaed example of a particular type of building.