Domestic Architecture

Description

• Lack of ornamentation fits with modernist ideals, cuboid doinates, white stucco unifies
• Ribbon window across facade, functional for light, steel pilotis extend logga- car port
• Open plan interior, tubulat steel furniature, roof garden

Materials 

• Steel, glass and white stucco, ribbon window creates purity and clarity
• Domino stylem- pilotis in post and lintel system- built up
• Open plan for circulation of air, rooms orientated to get different sunlight

Theories

• Ideas of Modernism- 'the house is a machine for living'
• 5 Points of Architecture- pilotis, free planning, free facade, ribbon windows, roof garden
• 'The Modular' (1948) talks of classical measurements e.g. golden section, Fibonacci
• Theory of Purism- machine aestheticism and continuous refinement

Description

• Assymetric cubic construction, horizontal/vertical planes-interconnected by tubular steel
• Sliding doors/pnales in house, can be public or private- removes hierarchy of forms
• Red, yellow, blue and black elements (black functional), 3D Mondrian painting

Materials, form, function

• Reitveld furniature maker, includes Red and Blue Chair, modest and functional as a house
• Building conventions of Utrech meant had to be classicied traditionally
• Reniforced concrete for canitlevering and large windows

Context

• De Stijl movement- universality, purity, perfection, order- use of positive/negative space
• Links to communism- ideas of universal harmony, theories of Doesberg 'new sense of beauty'
• Poet Marakovsky 'we do not need a dead mausoleum of art, but a living factory for the human spirit'

Description

• Situated in birch forest over a small waterfall, at one with landscape, brick merges with rock
• Multiple parapets- indoor and outdoor, staircase to waterfall- at one with nature
• Asymmetrical design, chimney connects levels, cantlivering with reinforced concrete
• Lack of decoration, interior evokes 'furnished cave', rough stone and flagged floors

Materials

• Locally sourced combined wiht new materials e.g, glass, concrete- for suspending balconies and windows, high tensile strenth of steel framework
• Undisguised, stone left natural to blend with landscape

Context

• Oraganic Arcitecture- harmony, surroundings 'grace to the landscape instead of a disgrace'
• Frobel Kindergarten- constructive craftmanship, love of nature from grandma's farm
• Influence of Japanese architecture e.g. Ho-o-den Temple, modernist ideals of form -> function