Just scroll through Hometta's modern house plans and connect with a local builder. Photos: Hometta
What a great idea! You can scroll through the plans online and if you find a plan that you like, the site will help you connect with several design professionals to review the plans with you. Since I fell in love with a bunch of the houses, I decided to reach out to some of the architects to ask them about their designs.
1. Rubix House
I chatted with Wes from Jones Partners about the Rubix House (above right): a 3-story box with 1,585 square feet, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. It's a simple design, but the Rubix House is an example of modernity at its best. The house, which pays homage to the Rubik's Cube game, was designed to fit on a number of different-sized sites. The designers wanted it to be as compact as possible to make it easy for individuals to build anywhere. One of the coolest features? "The different sides rotate with the space around the interior" like a Rubik's Cube, says Wes.
The Shot-Trot is a hybrid of traditional and modern architecture. Photo: Brett Zamore Design
The next home is a ShelterPop staff fave: the Shot-Trot by Brett Zamore Design. The Shot-Trot is being offered on Hometta so anyone can build it anywhere -- no need to hire the architect who designed it.
"The impetus of the house was to design a home that is truly efficient but also a home that feels as if it has a history of connecting to the landscape and its surroundings," says Brett. The house is a combination of two architectural home styles: the shotgun and the dogtrot. "It's a modern hybrid," he says. Brett has built three of these homes in Houston, Texas. I want one!
This bold Rollover Dorothy house plan is just one of the many options Hometta offers for the modern family. Photo: Hometta
One of the more daring house plans is the Rollover Dorothy by Roger Sherman Architecture. Rollover Dorothy was imagined when Roger started thinking about how to rework the typical suburban ranch for an urban site. Since he believes residential housing is only going to get smaller and more compact, "using more intelligence in its design, such as how to make spaces be more flexible and serve more than one function," he says, he turned it on its side.
Will the suburban neighborhood become extinct? Absolutely not, says Roger. "The real challenge, which Dorothy reflects, is to rethink how the traditional suburban neighborhood can evolve to become more space efficient, sustainable and better reflect today's environmental, economic and social/lifestyle demands," he says.
