STACKED MODERN
Winter 2018 | Boston, MA | Personal Submission
2018 Rotch Traveling Scholarship Preliminary Competition
2018 Rotch Traveling Scholarship Preliminary Competition
The prompt for Round 1, entitled "Architectural Appropriation", provided six iconic modern houses as study templates:
What if the three modern case studies houses became one villa? Analysing the common characteristics between the Johson, Mies and Eames houses, I discovered combinatory relationships that could allow the houses to be stacked and collaged together, without sacrificing the each of the three building’s parti. Here, the Glass House offers the dining and kitchen spaces; the Eames house becomes the second story guest bedroom and water closets; and the Farnsworth House, perched high above the hill, becomes the master bedroom, roof terrace, and study area. The Stacked Modern appropriation the Villa de Bourdeaux into a triple parti, a scaffolding for the recombination of the three iconic modern homes. Themese of Le Corbusier’s five points can be seen in this final appropriation, a twist on all the houses provided.
- Villa Stein-de-Monzie (1926), Le Corbusier
- Mueller House (1930), Adolf Loos
- Farnsworth House (1951), Mies van der Rohe
- House in New Canaan (1949), Philip Johnson
- Eames House (1949), Charles and Ray Eames
- House at Bordeaux (1998), OMA
What if the three modern case studies houses became one villa? Analysing the common characteristics between the Johson, Mies and Eames houses, I discovered combinatory relationships that could allow the houses to be stacked and collaged together, without sacrificing the each of the three building’s parti. Here, the Glass House offers the dining and kitchen spaces; the Eames house becomes the second story guest bedroom and water closets; and the Farnsworth House, perched high above the hill, becomes the master bedroom, roof terrace, and study area. The Stacked Modern appropriation the Villa de Bourdeaux into a triple parti, a scaffolding for the recombination of the three iconic modern homes. Themese of Le Corbusier’s five points can be seen in this final appropriation, a twist on all the houses provided.
