Spatial structure

“I expanded the mass of the building as much as I could, to give it more space. But the walls of the house stopped at the height of the windowsills of the second floor, to allow the rooms to have a series of continuous windows running under the broad eaves, slightly inclined and cantilevered. In this new house, the enclosure was beginning to not be an impediment to outside light, air and beauty. The walls that surround the box, to which holes have been opened, had until now been the biggest problem.”39

The architect realizes to progressively avoid the anodyne space of his first buildings. For instance, the residence made in 1957 in the center of Sparta, the desire to make the façade plan a three-dimensional element its already manifests. Until those years, an atypical envelope, is exclusively in relation to the front of the building, but does not correspond to the internal spatial organization; the architectural components are related only in relationship with each other, to cover the requirements of the program.

By 1959, the open spatial structure becomes more legible. In the residence in Kiteza, the compacted areas are located in a single strip, which makes it possible to free the entire front of the house. In the same year, the Irodou Attikou apartment building projects, the placement of the staircase and the structural elements becomes crucial in the system or-

Fig 69. ZENETOS Takis, Residence in Sparta architectural plan, taken from ‘‘Takis Zenetos 1926,-977, Ορέστης Β Δουμανης, ‘World Architecture 4, London Magazine’

Fig 70. ZENETOS Takis, Residence in Sparta, frontal view, ibidem.

(Right) Fig 71. ZENETOS Takis, Residence in Kiteza, architectural plan, ibidem.

39. WRIGHT Frank Lloyd, Autobiografía, Madrid, el croquis, págs 177 y 178.

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ganization, which works in a centrifugal way, as a gear around a nucleus. In the same way, proceed in the Siemens residence, whose organizational scheme is also clearly rule by a nucleus, whereby the dependencies pivot around. On one hand, in the apartment building, the central piece is an static body and, on the other hand, in the Siemens residence, the vestibule establishes the structuring vacuum of the system.

With this same forcefulness and precision, in 1964 he builds a house in Kavouri, the outside location of the house is possible to free the entire perimeter, as well as the extension of the structural walls beyond the contour of the volumes, by means of a reciprocal play of strokes, with which the oblique tension of the interior space extends virtually outwardly. These projects, the unhampered sequence of the interior space to the exterior, are closely linked to the positioning and the size of the organizational nucleus with respect to the void. 40

(Right) Fig 72. ZENETOS Takis, Irodou Attikou, architectural plan, taken from ‘‘Takis Zenetos 1926,-977, Ορέστης Β Δουμανης, ‘World Architecture 4, London Magazine’

(Next page) Fig 73. ZENETOS Takis, Siemens residence architectural plan, ibidem.

Fig 74. ZENETOS Takis, Kavouri residence, architectural plan, ibidem.

40. “Piece that establishes the internal order of the house and that even though its proportion, form and qualification vary in each project, it retains some essential features that allow its cat- algation in a typological key” LLANOS Isabel – HENAO Edison, Variaciones del núcleo organizativo en la arquitectura doméstica de Obregón y Valenzuela, page 48.

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