GA101 - Bourne Blue Architecture

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HOI-]SE,S
2008
CaseStudy Houses
Char
lesM oor ei n Ber k e
'Moore
'TheCase
StudyHousesof LosAngeles'
by Elizabeth
A.T.Smith
'EamesHouse
andStudio'bvEamesDemetrios
and MLTW Architecture. Born in
bv Hiroshi Misawa
'Dialogue
with Charles Moore-On Sea1
C h a r l e s& R a y E a m e s
Pierre Koenig
Edward A. Killingsworth
Craig Ellwood
MLTW
CharlesMoore
Donlyn Lyndon
W i l l i a m T u r n b u l l J. r .
RichardR. Whitaker.Ji.
Chdrles & Rav E6mes: Eames House and Studio
LA School
New YorkFive
'LASchool'by
YoshioFutagawa
Ray Kappe
John Lautner
Frank O. Gehry
Edward R. Niles
'NewYorkFive'byYoshioFutagawa
Richard Meier
CharlesGwathmey
Michael Graves
Peter Eisenman
John Hejduk
Morphosis
EricOwen Moss
FranklinD. lsrael
Fichard Mei6r: DouglasHouse
EastCoast
DesertHouses
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Robert Stern
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S c o g i nE l a m & B r a y
T o d W i l l i a m s B i l l i eT s i e n
Steven Holl
TodWilliamsEillieTsren:RitkindResidence
Will Bruder: Feigin Residonco
I t aly
Nor ther nEur ope
'Post ltUWll ltalianBesidential
Architectureand
lnterior/Furniture
Design'by Marco Palmieri
Carlo Scarpa
Tobia Scarpa
Angelo Mangiarotti
Vico Magistretti
G. Ponti + N. Vigo
Bart Prince
Antoine Predock
Will Bruder
Rick Joy
'Houses
in Scandinavia,History and
Analysis'by Christoph Affentranger
Carlo Moretti
Luigi Moretti
Piero Sartogo
Vittoriano Vigand
Ettore Sottsass
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Alvar Aalto
Ralph Erskine
J0rn Utzon
Sverre Fehn
EuropeanContemporaries
Richard& Su Rogers
Rem Koolhaas/OMA
Mario Botta
Klaus Kada
LatinAm er i c ai n the 19
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Latin American Arch itects Encountered
in the 1960s' by Makoto Suzuki
Volker Giencke
GeorgDriendl
T, Sunyer/J.Badia
Alvaro Siza
OscarNiemeyer
LuisBarra
LinaBo Bardi
Ricardo
Le
PauloA. Mendesda Rocha
JoaquimGuedes
Oscar Niemeyer: Niemeyer House
LatinAmericaToday
'SixPointsaboutthe
Contemporary
Latin
American
Houses'byGabrielKogan
Alberto Kalach
Mathias Klotz
Enrique Norten/TenArquitectos
Marcio Kogan
FelipeAssadi
Angelo Bucci
S m i l j a nR a d i c
Australia
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Aussie H ouses'by Yoshio Futagawa
GlennMurcutt
PeterStutchbury
SeanGodsell
Gl6nn Mu.cfr: Houg€in Southm tl|l
PeterStutchbury
+ ShaneBlue:HarbourHouse
Newcastle.
NewSouthWales.Australia,2OO2
I t h a s l o n g b e e n t h e a m b i t i o no f
these architectsto design for this
m a g n i f i c e nnt o r t h f a c i n g h a r b o u r
sidedresscircle location.
T h e s i t e ,j u s t b e l o w r i d g e l i n e
h a s p r o s p e c to v e r t h e m i g h t y
HunterRiver.Orientateddue north
this site needs to be managed for
the extremesof the sun and light
s u c h a c l e a r - s k i e do u t l o o k r e quiresa softeningof climatic conditions.The eventualconcept was
to see the solutionas an armchair
that might be placed strategically
underthe protectivebranchesof a
t r e e , s o m e t i m e si n t h e d e p t h o f
shade,the dappled light of broken
shadeor the edge where a blast of
sun benefitswinterchills.
A large simple cut into the land
providesa platformthat has a distinct front and back. The platform
i s p r o t e c t e db y t h e d o w n w a r d
sweepof a sculpturalcanopy, des r g n e dt o s o f t e n l i g h t r e fl e c t i o n
intothe roomsbelow and beyond.
T h ec o m p o s i t i o o
nf t h i s b u i l d i n g
doesnot guide the residenttoward
the traditionsof residential
llfestyle-thereare few definitives
b u t i n s t e a da s e r i e s o f v a r i a t l o n s
that removethe constancy of exp e r i e n c i n ga b u i l d i n g r e p l a c i n g
t h a t e v e n tw i t h a n e d g e o f I i v i n g
e x p e r i e n c ew h e r e n i g h t a n d d a y
are recognisedonly by the changi n g l e v e lo f l i g h t a n d n o i s e , a n d
hospitalitymoves equally through
t h e b u i l d i n gi n t h e f o r m o f e n t e r tainment,
The fact that humansadapt eas-
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styleof life in this house can enjoy
greaterlevelsof freedom, that externalrooms are equally relevant
to how we live that the joy of day
to day events such as cooking,
b a t h i n gs, l e e p i n g e
, a t i n g ,w a s h i n g
all can be enhanced into greater
w o r t h ,w h e n d e c o r a t e d b v a r c h i tecture.
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