The possibility of re-envision for the Vitra Design Museum would incorporate a glazed ceiling. I find the unique design and complicated figure of the Vitra Design Museum to be extremely daunting therefore incorporating some kind of additional external views could be liberating. This concept also contributes to the additional source of natural internal lighting which is essential in a museum.
For architecture to be completely processed and appreciated does not only rely on the first physical appearance of the building. It relies on two aspects, the in depth concepts and purposes of the buildings function and the buildings surroundings. I found for the Vitra Design Museum a dessert environment consisting of Baron white sand would be the most effect to reflect on these concepts. There would be some what of an illusion of where the buildings white walls stop and the ground starts. The lack of other objects could also enhance and exaggerate the Vitra Design Museums intense figures. Finally the quality of dessert sunlight would be exceptional for natural lighting of the museum.
Lead-coated copper sheathes the central cruciform structure housing the living and dining rooms, library, kitchen, family room, and two bedrooms. The garage, topped by stucco-walled staff quarters, is at the front of the site. The upper garden includes a guest apartment, a lap pool, and an office/bedroom crowned with a copper sphere. The master bedroom pavilion sits on the edge of a shallow lake at the bottom of the two-level garden. When you say the word ‘deconstruction’ and you look at this house, you think the term fits. But it is just an opportunistic interpretation, because it was never done intentionally. The Schnabel House relates to Romanesque churches. From the outside it looks California vernacular.
Reference- William J. R. Curtis Modern Architecture Since 1900 Chapter 35, Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature: page 663
Gehry's later buildings gained part of their ambiguity from their break with normal conventions, from their fractured geometry, from their acceptance of banal features in the surroundings, and from their resemblance to abstract sculptures. With most of Gehry’s work forced efforts were made at historical and civic references, but the real interest of the project still lay in its collision of disparate pieces and scales. The VitraDesignMuseum had the mood of a psychic projection of disturbing dream fragments. Gehry’s work relied upon the dynamic interpretation of walls, floors, ceilings and skylights as well as the explosion of convex and concave planes. These floating facets, which were sometimes clad in stainless steel, were capable of evoking multiple associations, musical and nautical, but they also extended spatial researches. Gehry’s architecture was personal and inimitable, and was without a social or ideological program, yet it still caught the mood of a widespread uncertainty in which public frameworks and supports were falling away, leaving the individual in a state of suspension.
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William J. R. Curtis Modern Architecture Since 1900 Chapter 35, Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature: page 663
The possibility of re-envision for the Vitra Design Museum would incorporate a glazed ceiling. I find the unique design and complicated figure of the Vitra Design Museum to be extremely daunting therefore incorporating some kind of additional external views could be liberating. This concept also contributes to the additional source of natural internal lighting which is essential in a museum.
For architecture to be completely processed and appreciated does not only rely on the first physical appearance of the building. It relies on two aspects, the in depth concepts and purposes of the buildings function and the buildings surroundings. I found for the Vitra Design Museum a dessert environment consisting of Baron white sand would be the most effect to reflect on these concepts. There would be some what of an illusion of where the buildings white walls stop and the ground starts. The lack of other objects could also enhance and exaggerate the Vitra Design Museums intense figures. Finally the quality of dessert sunlight would be exceptional for natural lighting of the museum.
