Project 2---video

Final Model

General view ( house with landscape)

South-West view (entrance)

Section with natural light (Raumplan)

Section with artificial light (Ruamplan)

Detail image showing stairs

Two parts showing interior organizations

Facades (East and West)

Parti and Poche interpretation

This poche drawing shows the quality of the house including interior and exterior. Changing lighting conditions influenced by openings and sun direction has been shown. The lawn and plants and masonry fences can be seen as well. Moreover, textures such as capet, wooden floor, tile show the quality of the house.

Similarly to the above

Grid system has been used. The plan is composed of six squares, which forming a ratio 2:3 in terms of the whole length and width.
The elevation contains several squares as well.

To represent the Raumplan and flowing spaces, a compressed circulation diagram is being used, two levels forming one diagram, moreover, dashed is to symbolize the higher level. All the turning and changing level can be seen.

For vertical circulation, the major path is highlighted, it connects all the major function area such as entry, living room, dinning room, bedroom, top level.

Actually, the circulation and geometry diagram relate to each other, the central pathway for circulation corresponds to the horizontal center line in geometry diagram, in other words, the geometry is also used to form the circulation.

Public and private spaces are distinguished. Through axonometric drawing, the volumes of different function areas can be perceived.

Not only distinguishing the inside and outside of the house, different functions were taken into consideration as well, for example, on raised ground floor, the library and the lady's room are more private use, also, they are lifed up from the other rooms, consequently, their boundrays are thicker, symbolizing these rooms are more enclosed. Due to the library is only one door access, its lines is thicker than lady's room.

Load-bearing walls and colums have been highlighted

Spatial analysis

This spatial design, finished with luxurious and vibrant marbles, woods and silks, combined innovative architectural design with the cultural conception that the upper middle class had of itself

Loos uses the different levels of the Raumplan to create a careful architectural promenade from outside to inside. The first entrance way is low, with strong but dark colors such as deep green/blue tiles. This opens onto a cloakroom area that is generous in plan, brighter with white walls and a big window, but still low. At the far end a short, modest staircase takes the visitor round a right-angle bend, emerging dramatically between marble pillars into the double-height, open-plan sitting room.

The promenade continues past the raised dining room to the upper floors of the house, the Raumplan providing unusual and exciting views into adjacent rooms. On the top level is a roof terrace, with a window in the freestanding end wall to frame the view of Prague cathedral.

Entry way

Dinning room (view connection with living room)

Flowing spaces


Living room



Child room




Master room

Freestanding end wall to frame the view of Prague cathedral

Villa Muller

"My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces (cubes). I do not design floor plans, facades, sections. I design spaces. For me, there is no ground floor, first floor, etc...For me, there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces, etc. Storeys merge and spaces relate to each other." Adolf Loos

Known as an innovative landmark of early modernist architecture, the Villa Müller embodies Loos' ideas of economy, and functionality. The spatial design, known as Raumplan, is evident in the multi-level parts of individual rooms, indicating their function and symbolic importance. Raumplan is exhibited in the interior as well as the exterior.

The exterior displayed Loos' theory discussed in his 1908 essay, "Ornament and Crime." In the essay, Loos criticized decorated surfaces. For the exterior of the Villa Müller, Loos designed a white, cubic facade. He also wanted to distinguish between the outside, where the view could be seen by the public eye, and the inside, the private spaces of those who lived there. Consequently, the interior is lavishly decorated with comfortable furniture and marble, wood, and silk surfaces.

POCHE

PARTI