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Originally Posted by Frihed89
I perused the net on this. Where did the McMansion paranoia come from? The alternative campaign seems to be for tiny houses. Isn't there an attractive and functional, in-between alternative for the US?
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You are equating McMansion with "large" and hence its antonym would therefore be "tiny." That definition is not correct. See for example
McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad... | McMansion Hell
Size isn't the defining characteristic of McMansion. The defining characteristic is its poor architecture. Examples include secondary masses competing with primary masses, too many voids (windows, doors) in the wrong places so they almost resemble swiss cheese, unbalanced symmetry, incorrect proportions, etc.
These bad design implementations show up in houses of all sizes.
Here is a typical suburban house with a well-designed facade.
Here is a typical suburban house with a poorly designed facade (a McMansion):
Again, it isn't about size per se - it is bad design.