2012 - 2013 Lawrence Lek & Michael Dean

Monday 24 December 2012

Rintala Eggertsson Architects - Element House

The Element House by Rintala Eggertsson Architects. From the Architects website:
 
" The larger main space is a cubical space made of steel. It leads to four smaller wooden rooms situated in four different levels, from a cellar to an attic. Each small space includes a suggestion for use and the symbolic presence of one of the basic elements (fire, water, air, earth). The chosen main materials, rusty steel and wood, imitate the colors of the surrounding nature. The project wishes to create an inner world where memories and even dreams may have their moment and place. It is bringing together an archetype of a house, movement in space and the expression of four basic elements into a three-dimensional collage."
 
Consider how ideas expressed in this structure might relate to the conversations we had on Thursday regarding the different material and experiential potentials of your propositions, the thresholds between internal and external conditions, the manipulation of natural light, the visual and physical relationships between components of your proposal and the sequential experience of progressing through the building...

 
 
 

 





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