Functionality
Aesthetics
Integration
to nature
Metaphor
On the basis of these principles 3 came over
the rest
The choosen projects are:
The Bordeaux house.
REM KOLHAAS
Bordeaux France
The building is located on a hill looking over
the city of Bordeaux and the Garone river,
This Project varied due to a father’s
disability. So the architect creates a private world in a house for him. Giving
total movability to the handicapped by creating an elevating platform.
The volumetry plays with solid mass and empty
space, it is confined to create a platform, while the heavy volume seems to hover
Colored concrete, steel and glass are
construction materials, openly exposed in a neat and sincere architectural
solution. With panoramic views to the landscape, yet keeping the privacy of the
family.
MARGRET HARDARDOTTIR & STEVE CHRISTER
Wiesbaden, Germany,
This
project inspired in an allegory to a 15 century book 'Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili'.
Somehow
this is interpreted and the characters transform to Saturn and Delia , two
opposite entities that represent the complementary
opposites. one is strong, ancient, while the other is young, delicate and
nimble
From
this metaphor the dwelling is created in two different buildings, one that is solid
and dark, looking back to the tradition.
in contraposition, the other is light and actual
Stretto house
STEVEN HOLL
Dallas, Texas
In this project the landscape includes a river
with 3 waterfalls, that create a continuous ripple that recalls music, thus,
the idea is to materialize the music into building.
bass notes become solid masses that bed the
service areas, as the strings materializes into curved ceilings that link the
spaces rhythmically.
The building translates the landscape and its
sounds to forms and spaces. Performed with local Texan building materials and
tradition.
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