Post an image to your blog of each of the three selected houses and write 30 words on each. You could include observations on structural systems used, materials used, historical facts, information on the architects etc.
1. Barcelona Pavilion
Source: http://www.archdaily.com/109135/
- Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
- Designed for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition, held on Montjuïc.
- A work emblematic of the Modern Movement, has been exhaustively studied and interpreted as well as having inspired the oeuvre of several generations of architects.
- Glass, steel and four different kinds of marble (Roman travertine, green Alpine marble, ancient green marble from Greece and golden onyx from the Atlas Mountains) were used for the reconstruction, all of the same characteristics and provenance as the ones originally employed by Mies in 1929.
- Mies van der Rohe's originality in the use of materials lay not so much in novelty as in the ideal of modernity they expressed through the rigour of their geometry, the precision of the pieces and the clarity of their assembly.
2. Rudin House
- Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, and built in 1993.
- The house is located in the Haut-Rhin département, in the north-east corner of France. It is surrounded by fruit trees and meadows.
- The Rudin House's deliberately simple silhouette has been likened to a child's drawing of a house.
- It is finished in raw concrete, and is raised up on a platform, almost like a plinth supporting a sculpture. The architects themselves describe its shape as a "heavy and archetypal volume, that seems to be suspended above the gentle slope, demonstrating its desire to be perceived as an abstract object".
- Almost all excess ornamentation has been dispensed with. Rather than spoil the façade with guttering, for instance, the architects devised a metal drip strip that guides the rainwater into a pond on the western side.
3. House at Bordeaux
- Designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA.
- Completed in 1998, Maison Bordeaux sits on a small cape-like hill overlooking the city of Bordeaux.
- The house was designed for a couple and their family, but before Koolhaas and OMA were commissioned for the project in 1994 the husband of the family was in a life threatening car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
- Koolhaas proposed a rather simple volume that was spatially complex and innovative in terms of the interior organization and conditions. Koolhaas proposed a house that was the compilation of three houses stacked on top of one another; each with their own unique characteristics and spatial conditioning.
- The house appears as three separate entities that fluctuate between opaque and transparent.
- The lower level sits as a heavy mass that is carved into the hill.
- The interior is cavernous and labyrinthian, in a sense, where all of the intimate activities of the family take place.
- The middle volume is the most transparent as well as the most occupied space in the house. It is the space for the living area that is situated partially indoors and outside offering extensive views over Bordeaux and allowing for a multitude of activities with its open plan.
- The top volume is similar to the lower level in that it is opaque and conceals the bedrooms of the children and the couple. Unlike the lower level, the volume is penetrated with port hole windows that create views for the residents from their beds.
- With the three differentiated volumes stacked on one another, it appears as if the highest volume is floating on the middle volume because of the transparent glass.
Lecture reflection:
Today's lecture was a good introduction into experiment 2 and what is required and expected of us. I was most inspired by seeing previous years students work and it allowed me to think of ways to make my project stand out and unique from others.
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