Project One: Final Standard Drawings

Axonometric

Sections

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Project One: Final Model

Rem Koolhaas -Bordeaux House 1:100

The collection of images above portrays our group’s final model of Rem Koolhaas’s Bordeaux House, constructed of primarily balsa and box board. The use of only two materials allows a clear distinction to appear between the house and the landscape, while still remaining connected. Further the lightness of the balsa portrays an overall sense of lightness as the upper floor floats above the others and the surrounding landscape. While the overall circular base presents an instability of form as expressed within the structural system of the building.

Project One: Model Construction Progress

Our approach to the construction of a 1:100 scale model of the Bordeaux house involved laser cutting all major sections, from out chosen material balsa, to then be sanded back smooth and eventually constructed. The collection of images above displays our current progress following the completion of week one, where we completed all the cutting and most of the assembly. The model still requires the formation of the surrounding site, and some detailed features within the house, such as the stairs, as well as an overall clean-up of the edges etc.

Project One: Preliminary Research

Source One: Bordeaux House Class Handout –

Sourced through Catherine Lassen (course coordinator) as a starting point this document provided a short descriptive scope of the overall architectural composition, further developed through accompanying architectural drawings and photographs.

Source Two: Plans, sections and elevations: Key buildings of the twentieth century – Richard Weston

Obtained through the UNSW university library, this book provided a short descriptive analysis of the Bordeaux project supported with various detailed images and architectural drawings. Drawings which provided a greater level of detail regarding the design, as not portrayed in the initial handout.

Source Three: El Croquis n.79, 1992-96 OMA/Rem Koolhaas –

Through a direct contact with the head office of the architectural firm OMA, were we provided with this source, which presented further detailed architectural drawings, but most importantly detailed images of the interior not found through main stream internet searching.

Source Four: Aperta e chiusa Open and closed, Abitare n.347, pp.58-66 (Jan, 1996) –

This source we obtained by directly contacting the London office of ARUP, however although we have not been able to yet find a copy, this source is outlined to provide a conceptual analysis of the projects composition.

Source Five: Casa Latapie a Floirac Bordeaux Maison Latapie at Floirac, Bordeaux, Domus n.791, pp.44-47 (Mar, 1997) –

Also sourced by directly contacting the London office of ARUP, this source although, again not yet located is suggested to further provide a conceptual analysis considering the built form and notion of an outer shell.

Project One: Five Houses of Study

Main House of Focus: Bordeaux House (1995-98) – Rem Koolhaas

Image Source: http://www.1kindesign.com/2011/04/19/maison-a-bordeaux/ (accessed 05.03.2012)

Villa Muller (1928-30) – Adolf Loos

Image Source: http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/At66PortlandPlace/2011/Spring/AdolfLoosgallery/TheVillaMullerexterior.aspx (accessed 05.03.2012)

Villa Savoye (1929-31) – Le Corbusier

Image Source: http://artnews.org/barbican/?exi=14247&Barbican&Le_Corbusier (accessed 05.03.2012)

Gehry House Santa Monica (1977-78) – Frank Gehry

Image Source: http://weburbanist.com/2008/02/03/the-house-that-shaped-an-architectural-generation-frank-gehrys-first-deconstructivist-building/ (accessed 05.03.2012)

Villa Mairea (1937-39) – Alvar Aalto

Image Source: http://www.designboom.com/history/aalto/villa.html (accessed 05.03.2012)