Sculptor combines agricultural shed with house

[Liberal_in_LA]

Hally Thacher's Pop-Up House comes as a kit
Laura Thomas, Special to The Chronicle

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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Her idea to toss up an agricultural shed over the houses for its sculptural quality was an artistic whim. But that and subsequent renovations inspired her to design the Pop-Up House, a manufactured kit house with a shed over it to ward off searing heat and insulate from winter cold.

Thacher, who grew up in San Francisco, remembers being dragged reluctantly on weekend treks to Napa but delighting in seeing tractor and hay sheds rising from the fields.

Putting such sheds over her desert houses would enlarge their space and give them a certain industrial edge, she thought, not reckoning that her concept would have an energy-conservation aspect.

But the higher roof created an air space between the house and the outside elements. "It deflected the heat, and it allowed the air to circulate over the roof. It stayed cooler," she said. "And in the winter the space insulates (from the cold)."


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[Lars39]

1. Can you imagine the critters you'd have living on your roof?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I've been wanting to do something like that to keep the summer sun off the trailer.