It's not that people want to "be the same", it's that expressing individuality in home construction is prohibitively expensive for most people.

@chrisdusty8134

10 ай бұрын

A 2019 article puts the starting asking price at $1.4 million.....so......yeah

@nononono3421

10 ай бұрын

1.4M in Montreal gets you a boring typical single family detached home probably smaller than this one in a boring place.

@brucefay5126

10 ай бұрын

I think there is also a “fear” of not being able to resell an unusual (different) looking home, or having to sell it a loss.

@nnooaahhnnooaahh

9 ай бұрын

I agree, the cost to build, and also needing not just any old house builder to take on this project

@curtzeek8818

9 ай бұрын

@stephaniecruvant9130 I don't agree with that at all. There are plenty of famous people that could build whatever they want, wherever they want, and yet, none of them do. There aren't many that think this way, but once someone does it, then others follow.

I appreciate how you showcase all walks of life. Those who have more resources, to those who have minimal resources. The point being, you have captured people who dare to live how they want to. Which no one should take offense to. Great job!

@pablososalizama8061

6 ай бұрын

I read all these videos in the same way, and marvel with all the different perspectives/values shared by the wild variety of people showcased in them :) Thanks for phrasing it!

There's plenty of reasons to love your videos, but I think what makes you an amazing director and content creator is how you let the stories tell themselves. It takes a lot of intellect and courage as a creator of visual media to be so willing and able to avoid interjecting too much of yourself or your style in a project that it becomes more about the piece than the subject matter of said piece.

@kirstendirksen

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to write. I have been editing for a long time and I still find it a very difficult thing so I appreciate the feedback.

@charbee144

10 ай бұрын

I've seen her older and very first videos. She's always been like this! I love how it's only become perfected over the years and turned into a mini documentary/art piece with every video. ❤️

@Sigmatic850

10 ай бұрын

I love how you leave the background natural and open, without introducing music. The viewer is brought into the scene.

@markhirstwood4190

10 ай бұрын

@@Sigmatic850 Yes.

@missbee9140

10 ай бұрын

The banquette reminds me of the inside of the I dream of jeanie bottle.

My first thought was, "He's like the Frank Lloyd Wright of the 21st century." Absolutely stunning! I love your videos.

His houses don't look like houses, they look like dreams. Wonderful dreams.

This is more than just a house, it is a work of art.

@mariannefaulkner3445

10 ай бұрын

Engineering not mentioned Need a reference. Design good provide / credit the structure engineer. Social youth ?

Its amazing what you can do with a few million dollars.

@StudiousCattery

10 ай бұрын

True and It's even more amazing how few would build something like this. Far too many Hollywood mansion knockoffs with an infinity pools.

@janavenue650

10 ай бұрын

lovely, creative, unique homes. just not affordable for most people

@StudiousCattery

10 ай бұрын

@@janavenue650 unfortunately yes, I'll take a van with some solar panels at this point.

@blueman5924

10 ай бұрын

bet he barely spent $ 500k back then. Today, yes, a million.

@DNLDVID

10 ай бұрын

@@blueman5924 Or MUCH MORE!!!!!!

Results like these buildings really make me think of an architect, more as an artist ... expressing his imagination. I tip my hat to this gentleman.

Beautiful home. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I’m amazed of people who are not afraid to live out of the box. Great!

The world is full of some amazingly creative people, we need to value them. Thanks Kirsten for yet another wonderful video.

Thinking and creating out of the box❤

Thank you Kirsten, another master peice, now I'm watching another one of your jump starts, Martin Doolaard.

Interesting man and houses he has created 😊

This is the closest rival to the views you guys enjoyed in the Manhattan studio a year ago. Class content, as always, and I watch every upload. Respect from a bricklayer in London, England.

What a brilliant guy, and still so unassuming and straight-forward! Thank you!

What a lovely story. I instantly saw birds profiles but when he said a bouquet of flowers, that hit home

Wow! Robert Oshatz is a genius! So creative!

I was raised differently. My mom designed a round house,and i lived growing up in it! Im a boomer too! She was an old hippy. I LOVE HIS DESIGNS!

Work of ART ! Shared it with my Lake O people ! They say Thank you for sharing ! Oregon Homegrown designs are they BEST.

This is a one of a kind architechture that no one can ever think of that it can be done. Very unique designs all his designs are unthinkable. Wow so brilliant mind.

Wow, what incredibly unique and beautiful designs. A genius of an architect. Thanks for sharing 😊

Love these designs, and that he is aware of his environmental impact,/ plus using labor that needs work, desperately, Win win win!

I saw a walkthrough of this home before. The drone footage really makes it pop.

that's so cool and interesting.He thinks out of the box for sure.

It hits you immediately at the drive way and seeing the copper patina color of the roof there, his love for FLW comes through very effortlessly, yet re-interpreted and fresh in his own version of it. I'm half way through the video, and it hasn't been mentioned yet, but putting the floor plan on the glass doors pretty much confirmed it.

Years ago, I had a chance to visit the Fennell residence (houseboat) he designed. Wow. Stunning. When designing my new house, I kept looking back at it for inspiration (but for use in the desert where I live). Thank you for sharing his personal residence in this video!

I love the curved designs he has created the most! The flow of his modern curves is so calming to the eye and has the same restful vibes as the curves in a traditional adobe home. I agree with the other comments that his architectural work should be honored as ART. And, I would definitely enjoy living in one of his designs. Thank you to Robert and the Kirsten duo team.

This is fascinating, Kirsten - thank you. His granddaughter is sharp, too - what a great experience she has getting to grow up in such a visionary environment.

The last planned house he showed out of the Five to be built reminds me of an optometrist’s Phoropter.

Oh my gosh, a modern day Bucky Fuller. What a unique vision. Love it!

He's an amazing architect. Thank you for showing his work.

STUNNING. His work is spectacular, genius.

I JUST LOVE THIS ❤

I had the privilege of working with Robert for over a year. I consider it a highlight of my long life. I learned from a master of design and aesthetics. Thank you Robert.

He has beautiful designs!

You always find the most fascinating homes to feature on your channel. His houses remind me of ships from Star Wars. I can imagine someone took their ship and converted it to a home once they reached a beautiful forested world. These really get the imagination going. Thanks for sharing this man's vision.

All I would say there Awesome house's. Most people want to copy each other to be in the norm. I rather be out side of the BOX And uniquely alone as one. Its more of a sculpture than a from of a BOXED HOUSE. It's just another Form of someone's artistic expressions of there imagination. To cerate something totally different. ❤❤✌👍👍👍🙏🙏

I'm so absolutely in love with these homes...puts every other home to shame...Gorgeous! Dreamy man, dreamy homes. The fact he did this on a budget makes it all the more incredible and inspiring

I would absolutely love to live in those homes. I wish more creative and unique designs were available.

@CyberDocUSA

10 ай бұрын

Pray for no landslides during heavy rains.

@jareknowak8712

10 ай бұрын

@@CyberDocUSA Use rocks instead of soil.

@collinmoeller1345

10 ай бұрын

Touche! They're a labor of love. Unique stuff like this is usually built to live in for a long time rather than sell because it usually won't provide a good (or any) return on investment when you get so unconventional and experimental. This happens with luxury houses with fancy materials too, no one values your creativity and taste as much as you do!

@pipfox7834

9 ай бұрын

@collinmoeller1345 I beg to differ. A friends labour of love recently sold very fast and fetched a high price indeed. Who loves it and bought it? Why, an architect who now has something utterly unique. And a great view, birds wildlife and all those things that were not fashionable 40 years ago when it was built by hand by the owner. Built for about 60 thousand, sold for ten times that.

This is probably the most interesting house you've done so far. The only thing I noticed that's a no-go is that there's no safety railing and falling off that deck would be fatal.

Funny how I moved from 'I don't like this' to 'this is actually amazing!'. Thank God for things that challenge our prejudices and comfort zones.

Fabulous. But I would venture that one reason we don't see a lot of developments like this is $$$$$. I would have been interested to hear the list prices of the 5 homes shown under construction.

@kathymanthey2062

10 ай бұрын

Yes $$$. He stated with a bit of arrogance that people wanted to live in cookie cutter houses, but it is really because of the cost of custom and even the ability to find a contractor to do custom. Then he also bothered me as he obviously has some means and yet used unskilled labor so he could underpay people to build his home.

@buddyneher9359

10 ай бұрын

@@kathymanthey2062 yes, that "economic" unskilled labour rankled me, too.

@nononono3421

10 ай бұрын

@@kathymanthey2062how are they underpaid? People in reinsertion programs have a right to work, you have no indication they are underpaid just because it was cheaper,you’re assuming other builders would have paid them as much as other employees, let alone even hire them. Most wouldn’t have even employed such builders for such a home out of fear, lack of trust, bias, but they could say they didn’t by using the « underpaid » excuse.

@pipfox7834

9 ай бұрын

@kathymanthey2062 sorry my dear, but you don't understand the era this man is from. He's my era, slightly older. Forty years ago people DID want cookie cutter houses, most of them. Anyone who didn't was labelled a hippie. Most people *did not* want to live in forested areas, had much.less interest in nature and more passion for urban life. That has gradually changed, mainly in the last twenty years. My friends house that he built in 1982 for about 60 thousand was viewed back then as a hippie dream. Just sold it last year, to an architect for more than ten times that. Times change, and people have changed a lot re what is viewed as fashionable, desirable etc.

@pipfox7834

9 ай бұрын

When this place was built, land outside urban areas was not where most people preferred to live. Consequently, the land was fairly cheap. Especially if just outside municipal boundary with no piped water. So even ordinary folk back then could, with their own sweat - build a nice home. Especially if you did it in sections, not all at once. Plenty school teachers, nurses and tradesmen built unique homes in the mid to late seventies and early 80s. These gained a lot in value over time (land value increased also)

I've been to Oregon and I loved it. I wish I could live in one of these homes and surprise my wife and granddaughter with a gift like this.

Poor man can't enjoy a cup of coffee in that marvelous space

Fascinating. I can see doing something like this in Ontario.

I saw this on Ad this house gave me studio ghibli vibes!

very humble guy. love his philosophy

Very cool. love hillside homes, though as I discovered once, my pockets that seemed sufficient, were not deep enough to fulfill the dream.

It’s so neat when you ask him (although I think you’re more asking yourself) “why don’t we see more of this” I have asked myself the same thing when seeing really unique homes over the years

@sharitobias

10 ай бұрын

I think the main reason why is money. Houses like this aren’t allowed to be constructed in many places, and if they are it simply costs more. Transporting materials to the location, the time it takes to build a curve as opposed to a right angle, etc. Many people just can’t afford this vision. Hopefully the future of building will embrace more of these architectural concepts into the mainstream in order to bring down prices and provide elevated construction choices to the public.

@CSGraves

10 ай бұрын

@@sharitobias You beat me to it... the people who can pay off a home of their own are becoming a minority (if not already), and those who can afford a custom-designed home like this, even more so. But even among those who have the money, how many of them can embrace a less conservative aesthetic?

@pipfox7834

9 ай бұрын

There are lots of creative houses from this era around, but ...we don't see them because often the owners chose to build in forested areas ie invisible from the main road.

That is lovely that house .Sir your house Beats all .

Incredible.

Kirsten is like, "No railing? I'll be back here a lil bit" lol, and "It was built by unskilled laborers?" , steps even further back hahaha

oh to live in such a peaceful, integrated harmony with nature! 🌲🌲🌲

So beautiful place........love it !

Spectacular and visionary, unordinary serves us all. Thanks for the views & inspiration.

The deck railing looks really low. Is that according to code?

@blueman5924

10 ай бұрын

railing ? looks like low bench seating. 😂

Incredible mind, incredible designs, incredible homes.

@mariannefaulkner3445

10 ай бұрын

Design yes. Info on construction .... request Part 2. Thanks.

This was a great story.

Thank you for putting the link to Robert's website. I adored going through all of his other designs. He is not of this planet and I love the spaces he creates, they are super special.

AMAZING!! I know the area, and I'm in AWE!

I think it is great to be unique and to live in one of these houses.

Just too beautiful and very inspiring. Thanks for sharing Kirsten.🙌🏽

Wow! What an amazing house! Love it!!! Looks like a boat/spaceship!Star Wars set 👍👏

This house looks absolutely magnificent. The fact that it's built into the side of a cliff is crazy

Wow that’s an amazing house!

Just when you think that Kirsten has discovered all the amazing places, they just keep coming. Thank you for being on this mission.

This is a house out of a James Bond Movie! Spectacular!

@larsstougaard7097

10 ай бұрын

Blofeld approves 😎👌

wow, absolutely gorgeous creation. I really hope we see more builders going in creative directions like this. For so many reasons.

Spectacular feeling to see all those wonderful house designs.

Stunning - both of the houses. I would be very interested too see the foundation arrangement, beautiful houses!!

I used to live about 10 miles upriver from there, and I can tell you that the incredible serenity is often spoiled by loud motorboats and megaphone river tours, lol. The Willamette is a main waterway that bisects East and West Portland, going right through downtown. I was in the North, which is much less affluent. Lake Oswego is the wealthiest part of town, and I bet the boats are nonstop there in the summer. Looks like this home is incredible enough to offset that few months of summer noise, though. We had lots of turkey vultures in my old area as well and it was pretty funny to watch them get punked by crows 1/4 their size. Another wonderful video from this channel. I'm really grateful for the cool content you all put up here.

Being an individual will only cost you $2.6 million. (Price of the house they showed that was in the works) For prices like that, no wonder most people go with cookie cutter houses. Unique one of a kind houses that require distinct architecture design and structural planning with plenty of bespoke parts and furniture cost a lot of money to make. And lets be honest, while they are cool and unique and fun, they're not the most functional uses of space.

@bsworld2

10 ай бұрын

That price is mind boggling. A house in my neighborhood sold for 4 million....a basic cookie cutter, 4 bed, 2 bath. The land is a double lot and they put in a pool and tennis court. The view is desert scrub.

You've shown a ton of cool homes, but this is THE coolest yet. Wow

i watch every video as soon as they come out

Very cool. Very cool indeed!

Wow, your home and the other houses shown in this video absolutely blew me away with their creativity and alternative beauty. I very much dislike the box houses that surround us like weeds but then of course much of this reality boils down to lack of taste but mostly finances. Here in Budapest, Hungary the young people of today would give their right arm to live in a hole in the wall of their own but have no hope of ever attaining this due to low salaries even for those with good skills and diplomas. When I die I would like to come back as a dog or cat on your doorstep if you would adopt me.

Simply lovely!

WOW! I so enjoyed this.

That is legit a dream house..

I REALLY like that the homes aren’t taking up a lot of space and are more compact. I get the Jetson’s vibe in his designs and love them. If only…

Sadly he's correct....most people are afraid to be an individual and just want more of the same!

Love this more than words can say! ❤

Wow 😮 what a house 👍

Those are uniquely designed homes,like those wooden puzzles origami shaped in giant forms,loved the balcony overlooking over the trees,just not little kids friendly unless it has a high railing.

@elijahoshatz5248

9 ай бұрын

My sister and I grew up here, and only broke one bone between the two of us!

Magnificent !!!

What a fantastic place!

It would be interesting to probe a little more on insulation, longevity, and repairability with the designers of homes that seem to be more concerned with forms and high concepts like this one. I noticed the new home being built had curved shapes formed from bent plywood panels. I wonder what contractor could show up and figure out what to do if water ever gets through the envelope and damages them. Note I'm not criticising the designs just expressing interest in hearing about these aspects from the creators during the videos.

@rzella8022

10 ай бұрын

I had more questions about the structural support; how is it hanging off the cliff.

@jessicav2031

10 ай бұрын

My grandparents' house was built with many similar elements: curved walls and curved roofs, 50 years ago. It was all built to a high quality standard and survived that time just fine with no apparent leaks or damage to the structure. By contrast, they did an addition in the 1990s it was already showing its age after 10 years. The house was bulldozed in the 2010s and replaced with a cookie cutter mansion that looks like it was picked out of a catalog.

@riceyo62

10 ай бұрын

​@rzella8022 i guess massive concrete piles.

@elijahoshatz5248

9 ай бұрын

This is my grandpas house. I grew up in it, and am currently staying in it with him while I’m back home for a little bit. It’s still in great shape and is surprisingly low maintenance. Every now and then the decks need to be redone

Development like this doesn't happen because banks only see mortgages as an investment, so cookie cutter houses only. Individualism isn't for resale in their minds.

Superb- he has a gentle hand- and a marvelous design philosophy. Beautiful. 🟧🟫🟥⬜️⬜️🔳🌬🌿🌿

These houses are so beautiful!

Love that house, so creative!

I ❤the design.

I call Lake Oswego the Beverly Hills of Oregon. Beautiful area.

Stunning ,living the dream

Very unique home and a great way to deal with that slope.

Fantastic!

Kind of obnoxious of the architect\owner saying why more people don't want to experience this different living experience. The cost has to be astronomical for a home like this. Make unique and interesting homes affordable to the average home buyer, and the average home buyer will certainly jump at the chance

@pipfox7834

9 ай бұрын

Creativity doesn't have to be expensive. *Despair is the abdication of the Imagination*

I think the comment I don't know why is somewhat understandable, however, the real reason why is that most people cannot afford that. I would love to live in an environment like that.

I wonder if he has home insurance?