Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Villa Muller | Research



Raumplan

“I do not design plans, facades, sections, I design space.”, Adolf Loos.

Raumplan is a unique way of spatial design and three-dimensional articulation of program by Loos. He designed almost every room with different height in Villa Muller, which created the floors on different levels. The space is connected with one another so that the transition is natural and practical.

Masking

“The house should be mute on the outside and reveal all of its riches on the interior.”, Adolf Loos.

The facades of Villa Muller are used as masks to distinct between the conventional domesticity and the metropolis. The façades were designed from inside out and intended not to communicate an interior condition which was considered the proper accommodation to a culture.


Reference:
Van Duzer, Lesile & Kleinman, Kent (1994), Villa Muller: a work of Adolf Loos, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 38-39, 44-45.

Risselada, Max (1988), Raumplan versus Plan Libre: Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, 1919-1930, New York: Rizzoli, 27-32, 40-46.

Tournikiotis, Panayotis (1994), Adolf Loos, New York: Princ

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