Interim- Part2 - Experiments

Final Submission- Abstract Model for Villa Muller

My 3 final studies are: Materiality, Private and Public spaces and Circulation. And the only one final abstract model contains my all 3 ideas by using the threads circled around and timber panels and sticks. After some experiments, I drilled 80 holes on the timber surface and cut 80 sticks which span 1.5cm to create the similar building volume to the house. And the threads bound different rooms by floating and going around in between the columns, emphasising Loos’s concept about the space and rooms are created instead of the flat floor.  

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Firstly, the different colours are carefully chosen to show the diverse material and primary colour, I think, Adolf Loos used in each room.

From the beginning, the white colour represents the anteroom and entrance that is the only materiality can be seen from the outside of the Muller house, while most outside circled timer sticks to some degree block the view and isolate the rich, colourful internal world from the exterior building envelope.

 Then the Salon is showed in creamy brown colour, followed by red boudoir which was primary constructed in lemonwood, slightly darker mahogany library showed in dark brown.

And there are a lot of brown built-in cabinet in dining room, thus the brown string is used to identify it on the bottom part of the model picture.

 Then it goes to the second floor which is the hosts and guests’ bedrooms, using the grey-brown because the colour at this floor are dynamically changed from each room however the floor is the only one completely flat compared with the ones below.

Finally, it ends up in green in the breakfast room which sits on top of the roof.

The second model is about private and public spaces. Again I used the same timber model base and sticks, threads set back one envelope to illustrate the idea about the enclosure sense of Villa Muller and the interesting things secretly happening inside.

This time I choose different tone of the similar colours to identify the private and public sense of each room, also as moving all the way down from the top breakfast room to the entrance, the more dense the thread is, the more public use, while the less the thread density, the stronger the boundary stands out to the other rooms.  So while the entrance, anteroom, salon and dining room are all for public uses, the boudoir gets slightly strong sense of private and the library is almost only for the host, which has no strings going around in that area, only the boundary. And the bedroom level, top left part is bounded for hosts and the bottom right, which has some strings floating around, is the guest apartment. Then it all followed by the breakfast room jump into the semi-private room again.

And to be more specific, the darker colour on the bottom emphases the visible sense of the room and the important role each plays in the house, as moving up,  the library and bedroom(second floor) level are tended to be invisible to the public, so the similar colours to the timber base are chosen to bound the area, while the pure white colour stands out on the top of the roof.

Also with the circulation. From the bottom, the entrance and anteroom are associated only with the salon, then the dining room and boudoirs plays different roles to the salon. The former is quite open to the salon and the later is, sort of, in charge this 2 storey height living area, implies the hostess’ position in the house.  As moving further, the library which sits in the corner of the house and is only get strong sense of link to the boudoir is the most isolated zoon in the house, personally. Then moving circularly to the upper level, the living room ends the whole spiral circulation of the rooms and corridors, while the breakfast room interestingly flies out on top of the second level and continues the spiral circulation.

the side verson of the model to show the circulation.

So. this is my final abract model.!

Project 2 - Interim - Part1: CIRCULATION

1st model

The first model is based on the study of levels' circulation. According to Adolf Loos, there is not level plans but continuous space. Thus I made a model consists of 3 major parts.
The bottom model represents the basement level and western part of the entrance level. In the case of Villa Muller, it sits on the 3 almost square footings, then garage, laundry and anteroom sit on top of them respectively. Following with the salon, dining and kitchen, boudoir and library contiously run circularly all the way up to the second level, which is a only "one-piece" level.

So I made the bottom level fixed together, then any level with the same height sticks together: salon with dining and kitchen, boudoir and library, host's bedrrom and chirdern room with guest apartment.

 2nd model

Inspiration: In the process of first model, I found out the public space(stairs normally) getting smaller as moving up.

This model describes the moving space getting narrow and more private as moving up in the Villa Muller.
The outside pieces are widest, as moving into the centre, the barrier becoming narrow and higher. Firstly, the direction it runs matchs with the internal levels( especially the 3 major space) running up. Secondly, it implies the circulation getting more specific for the hosts. Also, each piece blocks the view from differetn direction represents Loos's idea about the create the inside world, sort of avoiding public viewing.

3rd Model

The 3rd model is about the two distinct stairs: central service stairs and side servant stairs.
The transparent plastic is used to clearly show the stairs in the volume. Also I made it two to indicate the most relevant space each stair serves.

As model showed, the rectangular box represents the servant staircase. It is continous from the basement to the second level, even as a role of the only access to the roof space. Meanwhile, the central stairs serves much wider range and space. It is more like floating in the centre of Villa Muller.

Puzzles - Model Making Process4

Interior Space- Model Making Process3

the staircase cut through the middle

Salon with the sofa

Salon with the fire place

Library

Library and boudoir

Look into the dining room

Exterior- Model Making Process2

The two pieces of roof cut through the middle line which is the section cut we did.

Adolf Loos designed the windows which are relatively small, to illustrate the idea about creating a inside world, then the occupants do not need to associate with the outside world.

From Beginning- Model Making Process1

Initially, we decided to cut different levels on the same plan individually to distinct the space movement and leave the stairs.

In this case, the floors are like the puzzles can be put together and pull out at the same time. (First Floor - Master room and Guest Apartment)