ARC465 Project 1A

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Eileen Gray Villa Tempe A Pailla Menton, France

ARC465 Project 1A

The villa tempe a pallia was designed by architect and interior designer Eileen Gray as a personal retreat from the city and a secluded hideaway carefully tucked into the mountains. Gray was formally an interior designer and transitioned into the field of architecture, a male dominated sphere at the time, becoming Grays background in interior design informed the design of the interior spaces with a touch of modernist and cubist influences throughout her work. The home features built in features, sharp modernist forms and is built to highlight the frame the furniture. Gray sought a mixture of tranquility and privacy in her personal life and designed the home in relation to the site, building right into the mountains foundation and using the existing geography to inform her floor plan.

Eileen Gray Villa Tempe A Pailla Menton, France

Photograph of front patio of the villa featuring exterior seating and a mixture of benches and cusions

Exterior shot of the backside of the Villa built into the mountainside and carefully designed for privacy and retreat.

Additionally, the villa featured long flat planes reminiscent of ship construction and ship decks allowing for long open floor plans and spaces. The home was divided into private and public areas in the front and exterior of the home, catering to Gray’s want for entertainment and need for privacy withen her own home. The home additionally featured a sweeping oceanview due to its location perched atop a mountain in France. The use of stone and greenery on the exterior additionally help frame and hide the home truly speaking to its function as a retreat for the artist. The furniture in the home is built with a modernist and functional designation and became a ‘living lab’ for the architect to test her ideas and concepts in creating a true embodiment of the architects spirit, ideas and cutting edge originality.

Interior shot of workspace inside the villa featuring exposed heating system and custom built in features in the wall.

Interior shot of the living room featuring built in stairs, sharp modernist forms and a view towards the outdoor patio

Iteration #1:

- Cut the object in half to expose the internal structure of the table

- Boring

Iteration #2:

- Cut two sections into the object to create two unique cuts

- Inclusion of tile for texture

- Comprehensive slice of the object

Physical Model Process

Foam Curling

- Experimenting with form

- Cut small slashes to gently curve the foam into the shape I needed

First Prototype Model

- Foam + Foamcore + Hot Glue

Tiles

- Used thinner pieces of foam core as the tiling and benchtop of the object

Interior Stability

- Placed wood bems inside for structural support of the body of the model

- Foam core base