Friday 2 March 2018

Personal Piece of Creative Work


In ARCH1080 - Introduction to Architecture and Enabling Skills our projects involved extensive research, understanding, and analytical representation of significant pieces of modern architecture. 

The model I had created through the application of Google SketchUp and Lumion as a rendering platform was Adolf Loos' design Villa Müller (1928-1930), located in the city of Czech Republic, Praque

Villa Müller portrays a basic cubic exterior structure, however the interior reveals a extremely sophisticated design through Loo's concept of the Raumplan, simply referring to the different arrangement of volumes. 

To explain this design, the structure is composed of more than 20 cubic shapes, and NOT A SINGLE VOLUME IS IDENTICAL, as Loos strongly believed that each room had to be gifted with its own specific dimensions for different uses. 

Thus, this idea of the Raumplan produces a powerful impact on the circulation of the interior, as you would think, how was it even possible to construct such a building with many different shapes to be structurally stable?

"To wander in the Villa Müller is, by definition, to be displaced, since Loos constantly relegates the circulation to the edge of each interior" 
- Leslie Van Duzer and Kent Kleinman, Villa Müller: A work of Adolf Loos (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994), 41

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