The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of home décor.
The primary materials used were steel, glass, and glass block. Some of the notable "industrial" elements included rubberized floor tiles, bare steel beams, perforated metal sheet, heavy industrial light fixtures, and mechanical fixtures.
To me this is really a beautiful building. Either in day or night, it can show it’s own petty to all others to see. The design was a collaboration among Pierre Chareau - who was a furniture and interiors designer, Bernard Bijvoet - architect and a Louis Dalbet - who as a craftsman metal worker.
Much of the intricate moving scenery of the house was designed on site as the project developed.The external form is defined by translucent glass block walls, with select areas of clear glazing for tranparency. Internally, spatial division is variable by the use of sliding, folding or rotating screens in glass, sheet or perforated metal, or in combination. Other mechanical components included an overhead trolley from the kitchen to dining room, a retracting stair from the private sitting room to Mme Dalsace's bedroom and complex bathroom cupboards and fittings.
And the other case study this time is The Villa Muller. It is an architectural structure designed in 1930 by architect Adolf Loos, born in Brno, Austria-Hungary.
The villa is located in Prague, Czech Republic. The house was designed originally for Mr. Frantisek Muller and his wife, Milada Mullerova.It is also Known as an innovative landmark of early modernist architecture, the Villa Müller embodies Loos' ideas of economy and functionality. The spatial design, known as Raumplan, is evident in the multi-level parts of individual rooms, indicating their function and symbolic importance. Raumplan is exhibited in the interior as well as the exterior.
My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces (cubes). I do not design floor plans, facades, sections. I design spaces. For me, there is no ground floor, first floor, etc...For me, there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces, etc.
Storeys merge and spaces relate to each other.
Shorthand record of a conversation in Plzen (1930), Adolf Loos
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