Amy Goodwin

Flatpak late afternoon

Prefab pioneer folds

I am quoted in this article in today's Boston Globe

read it here

Evening Flatpak House

Because the Flatpak is shed roof is pitched the wrong way
we need to watch out for these giant ice chips.

Some Flatpak images.
This house chops up light in interesting ways.
The morning light slices through my bedroom.
A daytime cascade occurs on the stairs.

Flatpak

A house a few streets away from ours recently underwent a facelift. The plastic stained glass door replaced with a honey colored wood frame. The windows changed from casement to divided light casement. A new entryway pergola waits for droopy foliage to grow on it. Finally the owner painted the house trim a warm red and the body of the house a blue tinted green. House colors are tricky. It all looks nice as a paint swatches on paper but slather the latex onto the siding in the middle of a landscape filled with yellow green leafy trees and you see a different visual.

For the Flatpak we had to pick everything by swatch and then hold our breath as it was installed. For the exterior we slected a nuetral assortment of materials. The main goal driving our choices was to create a maintenance free exterior. Wood was out as were the powdercoat colors that would fade in a few years. We ended up with the barny combination of dark gray Cembonit, silver Galvalume, and patches of warm red and sparkly charcoal powdercoat.

I am getting the urge to change it but for now I will just alter the exterior on my computer.

our Flatpak house

I took these shots yesterday
After two years in the making our Goodwin-Wise Flatpak is becoming a home