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    5 days ago

    How the A-Frame Broke Housing Logic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCFF0aTWl3Q

    The A-Frame house looks like the purest image of “home”: two walls meeting in a perfect triangle. It’s ancient, familiar, and everywhere—from mountain cabins to Instagram feeds. But as a place to actually live, it’s kind of a disaster.

    This video looks at where the A-Frame came from, why it exploded in popularity in the 1950s and ’60s, and what makes it so impractical today. We’ll follow its evolution from Alpine chalets and Japanese Gassho houses, through Rudolf Schindler’s experiments in California, to its rise as the ultimate American weekend cabin—cheap, portable, and easy to build.

    It’s strong, efficient to construct, and beautiful to photograph. It’s also acoustically terrible, thermally inefficient, and impossible to adapt. The A-Frame isn’t really a home—it’s an icon of escape.