constellations of form and social realm
constellations of form and social realm
VitraHaus (flagship store and home to the Vitra Home Collection) ✖️ Architect: Herzog & de Meuron ➕ Location: Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany ◾️Year: 2009 🟰 Annotations: A – main entrance B – cafe C – shop ➗Drawings: …
Capsule House K (Kurokawa’s own countryside home) ✖️ Architect: Kisho Kurokawa ➕ Location: Nagano Prefecture, Japan ◾️Year: 1971 🟰 Annotations: A – outdoor staircase descending to the entrance B – main staircase C – kitchen capsule D – capsules with spherical…
Balancing Barn ✖️ Architect: MVRDV➕ Location: Suffolk, UK ◾️Year: 2010 🟰 Annotations: A – entrance B – kitchen and dinning area C – bedrooms D – living room ➗Drawings: cross section diagram ground floor diagram eye level view
Winton Guest House ✖️ Architect: Frank Gehry➕ Location: Orono, Minnesota, USA. *Moved to to the University of St. Thomas’ Daniel C. Gainey Conference Center in Owatonna, Minnesota ◾️Year: 1987🟰 Annotations: A – living roomB – bedrooms C – garage D – fireplace ➗Drawings: cross section…
Hearst Office Tower ✖️ Architect: Norman Foster ➕ Location: New York, USA ◾️Year: 2006 🟰 Annotations: A – atrium (lobby)B – officesC – original Art Deco building (Joseph Urban and George B. Post & Sons. 1928)D – mechanical spacesE – retail…
Nakagin Capsule Tower ✖️ Architect: Kisho Kurokawa ➕ Location: Tokyo, Japan ◾️Year: 1972, demolished 2022 🟰 Annotations: A – prefabricated capsulesB – central cores (vertical circulation) ➗Drawings: cross section diagram floor plan diagram aerial view
Timmerhuis ✖️ Architects: OMA ➕ Location: Rotterdam, Neatherlands ◾️Year: 2015 🟰 Annotations:A – existing municipal building (Stadstimmerhuis)B – office spaceC – vertical circulationD – courtyardE – commercial spacesF – floors dedicated to office spacesG – housingH – passagewayI – museum ➗Drawings: cross…
Spittelau Viaducts Housing ✖️ Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects➕ Location: Vienna, Austria ◾️Year: 1994-2006 ➗Drawings: river view eye level view upper level diagram
Military History Museum ✖️ Architect: Daniel Libeskind➕ Location: Dresden, Germany ◾️Year: 2011 🟰 Annotations: A – extensionB – existing buildingC – main staircase ➗Drawings: eye level view plan diagram
Teatro del Mondo (temporary floating theater) ✖️ Architect: Aldo Rossi ➕ Location: Venice, Italy ◾️Year: 1979 🟰 Annotations:A – performance spaceB – staircaseC – Punta della Dogana (Giuiseppe Benoni, 1682. Tadao Ando, 2007 – restoration) ➗Drawings: view from Canal Grande…
The Shed. Center for the Arts ✖️ Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro➕ Location: Hudson Yards, New York, USA ◾️Year: 2019 🟰 Annotations:A – movable outer shell (ETFE)B – fixed buildingC – tracks & wheels D – McCourt – large-scale performances spaceE –…
Two Houses in Ponte de Lima ✖️ Architect: Eduardo Souto de Moura➕ Location: Ponte de Lima, Portugal ◾️Year: 2002 ➗Drawings: upper level diagrams cross sections eye level view