Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Exp2 Week 1: House Research

House at Bordeaux

- concrete shell
- the middle living area is a glass room which takes up half the level is out in the open.The entire room is an elevator platform which rises and lowers to other levels of the house; changing plan when it stops on one of the floors. Single wall intersects each level, next to the elevator.
- the lower level which is cavern level below ground is sheltered from most light during the day
- the top level controls light through the 'portholes' carved into the concrete walls on each side. The large porthole at the end of the house can be opened.

Barcelona Pavilion

continuous space
- the entire building on travertine plinth
- U-shape walls on both ends of building, also travertine, forms pools on both ends of house
- floor slabs project over the pool
- the roof plates are relatively small, supported by cruciform columns covered in chrome
- plates of high-grade stone materials like veneers of marble and golden onyx, tinted glass of grey, green, white, and transparent, act as spatial dividers
- structural system: steel frame

Rudin House

- parallel piped reinforced concrete floating on a tray supported by thin pillars
- large windows that open outward, only other access is under the house
- large deck angle, eaves and gutters disappear and rain water slides on concrete until pond located in the tray
- symmetrical lengthwise
- the house stands on a tray of thin concrete

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