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STEVEN HOLL
STRETTO HOUSE, TEXAS

Key concept component: Overlaps and Aqueous Space

Parameters: Natural light, Roof

Fluid Movement
“Stretto”
PLAN

Heavy Sound Orthogonal Masonry

4 Movements in Bartok’s music for string
Light Sound Curvilinear Metal

• Additional to the stretto house by

architect Max Levy
• Lumasite sail
• Adjustable
• Sun Path

ELEVATION

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GLENN MURCUTT
SIMPSON LEE HOUSE, AUSTRALIA

Perspective

Glazed walls
and blinds

HUMAN COMFORT

INTERIOR THERMAL
FROM EAST

VENTILATION

SECTION

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LE CORBUSIER
CURUTCHET HOUSE, SOUTH AMERICA

PRIVATE (LIVING QUARTERS) SEMI PRIVATE

(HANGING GARDENS)

SEMI PUBLIC
PUBLIC (OPEN AREA) (OFFICE)

SECTION

BOUNDARY
• TREE ACT AS A VIRTUAL BOUNDARY
DIFFERENTIATING 2 VOLUMES OF
THE HOUSE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
ARES

PILOTIS
• INDEPENDENT OF CIRCULATION
WALLS

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CHARLES CORREA
TUBE HOUSE, GUJARAT, AHMEDABAD

ONE WAY SLAB

PLAN

GRILL • VENTILATION
• WIND CIRCULATION
WRITING RESTING
SECTION
LOFT
• ENERGY-PASSIVE ARCHITECTURE
• GUJARAT HOUSING BOARD FOR
LOW-INCOME HOUSING COOKING
• NATURAL VENTILATION W.C EATING LIVING
• ADJUSTABLE LOUVERS PATIO

FORMS
W.C

EATING
FOLLOWS
COOKING
LIVING

CLIMATE PATIO

BATH

PLAN

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TADAO ANDO
MUSEUM LANGEN FOUNDATION, GERMANY

PLAN

RECTANGULAR AND CIRCLE

TO CREATE “PURE SPACE”

JAPANESE COLLECTION SPACE

MODERN I AND II COLLECTION SPACE

SUNLIGHT FROM
SKYLIGHT

PARALLEL LINE

STRAIGHT LINE

REFLECTION IN THE GLASS AND IN THE

WATER OF THE POND DISSOLVE
BORDERS AND COMMUNICATE AN
IMPRESSION OF WEIGHTLESSNESS

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TADAO ANDO
MUSEUM LANGEN FOUNDATION, GERMANY

PLAN

RECTANGULAR AND CIRCLE

TO CREATE “PURE SPACE”

JAPANESE COLLECTION SPACE

MODERN I AND II COLLECTION SPACE

INSIDE (MASS)
BETWEEN MASS AND VOID
OUTSIDE (VOID)
SECTION

JAPANESE COLLECTION SPACE

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LOUIS KHAN
ESHERICK HOUSE, UNITED STATES

SERVANT SPACE Materials

SERVED SPACE
MERGE
CIRCULATION

SERVED SPACE 2

OPENINGS
SUBDIVISION

natural Apitong wood

with manmade beige
concrete

GEOMETRY IN OPENINGS SECTION WOOD CONCRETE BLOCK

BEAM AND STUCCO

WOOD BED
ROOM BATH
RAILING

LIVING
ROOM
DINING
ROOM
LAUNDARY

CRAWL WOOD
SPACE STUDS
WOOD
BEAM

“Square root
rectangle” applied to
KITCHEN PORCH DRESSING PORCH Esherick house plan
DINING ROOM BED
SPACE ROOM UPPER
LIVING PART OF
LAUNDRY BATH
ROOM LIVING
ROOM

FOYER PORCH TOILET STUDY PORCH

FIRST FLOOR PLAN SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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