Courtyards
(+ Kitchens)
Matrix of rooms
Andrea Palladio, Palazzo Antonini (Udine, Italy, 1556)
Corridors ?
“The search for privacy, [….] through the agency of architecture is quite recent.”
R. Evans
Courtyards
Bernardo Rosselino, Palazzo Piccolomini (Pienza, Italy, 1460)
„environmental control mechanism for light, temperature, humidity, ventilation…“ “another technique in minimizing the necessary intercourse between various members of the household.”
Garden courtyard house Shared courtyard house L-shaped house Group of L-shaped houses Patio house Atrium-type house
MvR Modern Man in the City
MvR – Patio houses “No mass product” „[Mies‘] line of inquiry is remote from the concerns of the mass of modern architects (e.g. Philip Johnson). [Mies] is not interested in the “Existenzminimum” or the “optimisation of standardised dwelling types for working-class families.” [Mies] is “grouping… different units, deliberately and clearly individualised by topological devices” …the individual within the collective INAKI ABALOS – The Good Life
artificial representation of the world / nature.
„quiet and wide, expansive places for reflection“ (Nietsche) “empire of the self“
…a new understanding of the self INAKI ABALOS – The Good Life
“The walls are there to ensure privacy, to hide the person living there, to enable a profoundly free life to unfold within the house, on the margins of any morality or tradition, on the margins of any social or political control …“ “There is a metropolis the other side of them.“
…to protect the subject from the City. INAKI ABALOS – The Good Life
Comparing Mies‘ Farnsworth with Johnson‘s Glasshouse
Visibility combined with isolation Sense of feeling sublime Unity with nature Comfortable but not a place for contemplation
‌the use of glass & the raise of level. RICHARD SENNETT – The Conscience of the eye
‌two ways of how to begin
The Individuel within the Collective Modern Man in the City The New Self
Glass / Level
(architectural stylistic devices)
Arrangement
THE PROBLEM IN CONTEMPORARY LIVING
THE PROBLEM IN CONTEMPORARY LIVING
We observe a new will to live collectively rather than alone. Even if one could afford the amenities of living in a detached single family house, there is a new willingness do give up a certain amount of privacy and to share certain areas.
EXAMPLES
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Erdman Hall Dormitories, Louis I. Kahn (Bryn Mawr, 1965)
1st Prize Student Housing Competition, Athens – FOR.A
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“The House of Pragmatism“
Imposing the autonomous and collective living onto each other
The conversation
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Gigon / Guyer, Residential Building Neum端nsterallee, Z端rich 2007
Gigon / Guyer, Residential Building Neum端nsterallee, Z端rich 2007
Courtyards
Burkard Meyer, residential and office building Baden, CH
Burkard Meyer, residential and office building Baden, CH
Burkard Meyer, residential and office building Baden, CH
Burkard Meyer, residential and office building Baden, CH
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END
…or further examples
Gigon / Guyer, Residential Buildings SusenbergstraĂ&#x;e, ZĂźrich 2007
The Building as a porous neighborhood. MVRDV – Celosia (Madrid 2009)
The Building as a porous neighborhood. MVRDV – Celosia (Madrid 2009)
The Building as a porous neighborhood. MVRDV – Celosia (Madrid 2009)
The Building as a porous neighborhood. MVRDV – Celosia (Madrid 2009)
The Building as a porous neighborhood. MVRDV – Celosia (Madrid 2009)
…out
Sanaa
EXAMPLE 1 – STUDENT HOUSING LOUIS KAHN
The architecture of sublime Glass has to be used in a certain way to arouse a sense of lonely space.
Sanaa