Precedents in Architecture by Clark Roger H. Pause Michael & Michael Pause

Author:Clark, Roger H., Pause, Michael & Michael Pause
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118170847
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

Equal

The most direct relationship between the plan and section or elevation occurs when they are the same. In its simplest form, this equal relationship entails only the overall building configuration. At Asplund’s Snellman House (1) the rectangle of the main house becomes the figure of the elevation, excluding the roof. Similarly, the rectangle of the overall plan form at the Old Sacristy (5) is repeated in the major mass of the elevation. Richard Meier, in the Smith House (2), employs a 1.4 rectangle for both the plan and section. The small outbuilding is a cube that is related to the major house form in the same way in both arenas. In the Pantheon (3), the circle that forms the major space in plan determines the interior configuration of that space. The dome of this space is a hemisphere with its crown located at a height equal to the diameter of the circle in plan. This space may be as close to a sphere in form as practically can be achieved. The Tucker House (4) by Robert Venturi is, without the roof form, a cube. Le Corbusier’s Villa Stein (6) has plan and elevation configurations which are the same, not only in overall form, but also in their plaid grid subdivisions.

1. SNELLMAN HOUSE

ERIK GUNNAR ASPLUND

1917–1918

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