LaShai Waterman - Assignment 1 (The Rudin House)

LaShai Waterman ARC 4058 Fundamentals of Digital Design

Rudin House – Herzog & De Meuron – High Rhin, France – 1997

Major Concept:

At home Rudin, Herzog and de Meuron on childhood memories evoke the image of a house, rescuing the most characteristic elements such as the large fireplace, sloping roof, so a single volume. Associating with an elemental simplicity and cleanliness in their finishes, reaching beyond the literalness of imaginatively conceived as a house, exorcised the idea of a primary home to two water to reduce it to a degree zero of iconographic representation.

Since the distance does not differ in terms of volume but its neighboring completely alter their references. The house eludes own parameters of historicalness sweetened hypocritical of the new buildings falsely traditional for them to take only a vision that reflects its abstract geometry and the vision that leads to child in the house that we all recognize.

Spaces:

Inside the house stands out as a central element of transition and interior-exterior and back the great staircase that goes from floor to the ceiling, where the vertical axis of the house and the element that organizes. This is along the longitudinal axis of the building, leaving the stays on either side of the journey and ends under the light of a large skylight that takes light in terms of economy and the asymmetry caused by the mismatch of the axis of the ridge with the axis of the ladder.

è At first glance one might say that the shape and external appearance is a very typical home, as we imagined a house in our childhood: the waters of two roof, windows and doors and a great big fireplace. The roof is nothing more than a roof, walls, and both are simple walls forming a single plane where they have perversely doors and

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