08 the winton guest house an architectural work by frank gehry
Architectural Techniques 202 | Curtin University | 2014
The Winton Guest House is designed by Frank Gehry in the 1980’s and originally located in Wayzata, Minnesota. The house is said to have been inspired by a Giorgio Morandi’s paintings and is conceived as a large outdoor sculpture comprising of rooms which constitute their own mini-buildings. The main idea of the building is a concrete division of spaces through sculptural forms connected to each other. Based largely on sketches, scaled physical three-dimensional models and drawings were created manually. In this unit, students are required to develop knowledge and skill in contemporary methods of architectural communication by mediating between two and three-dimensional means of representation through geometric manipulation and projection. Using a case study of Frank Gehry’s WInton Guest House, students explored Rhinoceros software modelling environment. A type of workflow which mediate between three- ‐dimensional modelling using Rhinoceros three-dimensional software and two-‐dimensional drafting using Adobe Illustrator are utilized to produce high quality drawings and renders.
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