HHS 105-03: Fall 2009; You are your own GPU

One of the houses that we visited, we actually got the chance to enjoy a tasty lunch as well as learn about the history. I learned that the house was built in 1954 and it was built very precisely and with a lot in mind. The slanted windows in the living room where made to maximize the sun in the winter and minimize it in the summer. However, because a lot of the aspects of the house where so technical, the materials used were natural to give it a more ‘homey’ feel. There were a lot of untraditional aspects to the house. One of the things I noticed was the fireplace because of the fact that it didn’t have a chimney; the heat released from it travels underground. The house was quite large with very long hallways, this showed visitors the difference between public and private spaces; the bedrooms were completely separate from the living room. It also seems like creativity is important to this family because of the fact that there is a lot of art inside the house as well as outside the house. The art is also very creative and unique which adds quality to the house as well.
The residential areas that we had previously visited differ from the one that I mentioned above because there weren’t as are artistic or very creative and most of the houses in those areas all looked the same. The other area that we visited differed from all of the previous areas because it was like a mini town within a town. There are church and stores so that people living within this area don’t have to go far. This shows that this village wanted to be convenient. Another thing that I noticed that was unusual was that there were no sidewalks in this village. This is because it is a private area and they don’t wish to be a part of the city. This made me think about how each part of Greensboro tries to be different and unique in their own ways. It’s almost like a battle between neighborhoods and properties.