08: Artistic Interpretation of Masterpiece

Rietveld Schröder House by Gerrit Rietveld
by Mani


The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was built in 1924 by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder and her three children. She commissioned the house to be designed preferably without walls. Rietveld worked side by side with Mrs. Truus Schroder-Schrader to create the house. He sketched the first possible design for the building; Schroder-Schrader was not pleased. She envisioned a house that was free from association and could create a connection between the inside and outside. The house is one of the best known examples of De Stijl-architecture and arguably the only true De Stijl building. Mrs. Schröder lived in the house until her death in 1985.
The Rietveld Schröder House constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. The two-story house is situated in Utrecht, at the end of a terrace, but it makes no attempt to relate to its neighboring buildings. It faces a motorway built in the 1960s.
Rietveld wanted to construct the house out of concrete. It turned out that it would be too expensive to do that on such a small building. The foundations and the balconies were the only parts of the building that were made out of concrete. The walls were made of brick and plaster. The window frames and doors were made from wood as well as the floors, which were supported by wooden beams. To support the building, steel girders with wire mesh were used.
There was a movement named neoplasticism which is the combination of horizontal and vertical lines, including the primary colors which is Red, Blue, Yellow and also white and black.
The principle that I followed to make my model is unit to whole, its means that when u look at the plan of this house u will see that the whole unit divided to some smaller units, which are different sizes of squares,
So I try to show this in my model that each different type of sizes has different heights. And also I tried to show the vertical and horizontal lines in my model so that if u so see the model from different angles you can completely understand the concept, and the principle which had been used for this house.

07: Artistic Interpretation of Masterpiece

4X4 HOUSE by Tadao Ando
by Zhi Yong

06: Artistic Interpretation of Masterpiece

Smith House by Richard Meier
by Chee Choon

Richard Meier's Smith House set on the craggy coast of Long Island Sound in Darien, Connecticut. Smith House is a modernist lighthouse of transparent geometry. The structure is derived from a white prism that emerges between the trees and creating a strong visual contrast. Meier also worked at carving the house out of the basic cubic base with operations of addition and subtraction. The reverse side is treated as a closed facade, with small openings, while the front is an open facade with large glass panels offering extensive views over the horizon. While the spatial organization of the house hinges on the programmatic separation between public and private areas. Elements, the pristine white exterior, expanses of plate glass framed by finely proportioned piers and mullions, and minimal interiors creating intersecting volumes.
The house itself has a typical framework that is the identification of all possible regulating lines in plans and façade and the examinations of the characteristics of the emergent shapes and configurations of regulating lines. For rectangular geometries that proceeds along extensions of walls provides grids and shapes with special characteristics such as GOLDEN-SECTION-RECTANGLE. All regulating lines provide several alternative partitioning of the house and they are clearly based on the geometry of rectangle. These rectangle come up with various sizes and dimensions depending on what is subsumed under them. Still, every façade can be coming up with few squares and rectangles that fully fulfill the requirements of golden-section rectangle. These principles shows that Smith House is designed proportionally in every façade, adding with the use of white Neo-Corbusian forms with enameled panels and glass, creates a very organized and harmony residential building.

05: Artistic Interpretation of Masterpiece

Sliding House by DRMM Architects
by Jia Pey

The residential house is located in Suffolk, United Kingdom where it was exposed to four seasons in a year. The house was a self-built house in order to retire, grow food, entertain and enjoy the landscape. The client’s wish to have a house amidst the horizontal landscape and a genuine appreciation of vernacular farm buildings shared by architect and client/builder led to a manipulation of the local timber framed and clad 'shed' idiom. The linear composition is carefully sited on a level ridge which runs north/south along the north eastern boundary of the site. Thus the choreographed progression from road past annexe and garage, to house, glasshouse and then on to garden are a logical sequence.


The house has a very interesting feature – it slides. The house has a mobile unit that slides back and forth along the horizontal rails which acts as a shell. Therefore the name of the house was given the name Sliding House.

The owner wanted a house that he can enjoy and at the same time, to be able to enjoy the beautiful environment. The solution was to have a steel-framed glass main house with the timber clad mobile shell. Not only the owner gets to unveil according to desire, the client is also able to retract it back to cover the main house.

The shell also acts as part of insulation in accordance to the change in climate. The main annexe which is made fully of glass will be insulated by the sliding shell during cold season. The garage and the guest annexe are made up of solid timber.

04: Artistic Interpretation of Masterpiece

Eggo House by A69 Archtiects
by Jojay

The purpose of the project was the construction of a self-contained dwelling unit in the garden of the recently reconstructed house. It was necessary to deal with the dominance of the opposite panel house facade, avoid confrontation with the architecture of the original house and find out a solution that would not parasite on the garden area. The existing walls made up from cement bricks in the direction of the planes X and Y were completed in the project with the horizontal slab in the plane Z. This slab became the main space organizational element and carrier of the fundamental motive; hole in the form of an ovoid. The house itself is, on the contrary strictly limited by the functional blocks. From the large entrance hall you will enter the autonomic study and the private zone. The private zone is strictly divided into intimate and social parts. Intimate spaces are oriented on the eastern facade with an own terrace, the social rooms into the atrium of the garden. The kitchen cabin in the form of a block is connected directly to the social spaces. The dining and living halls have character of a glassed pavilion – winter garden. The fragile space of it is enforced with a screen of the horizontal wall with a symbol of home – fireplace. It is connected directly to the covered living terrace. As a compensation of the built-up area of the house originated a roof garden connected vertically to the apartment in the upper storey of the original reconstructed house.

03: Artistic Interpretation of Masterpiece

Soe Ker Tie House by TYIN Tegnestue
by: Tan Kwon Chong

Soe Ker Tie House located at Noh Bo, Tak, Thailand and it consists of 6 sleeping units which allocated for the orphanage. The client, Ole Jorgen Edna wanted to recreate a place where children would experience the private space, a home to live and a neighbourhood where they could play and interact with one another. TYIN Tegnestue which is a non-profit architectural student from NUST then takes on this project and enhances the intention of this project. They showcase the 6 woven bamboo huts, clubbed Soe Ker Tie, or the Butterfly Huts since the ‘winged’ appearance was dominant. They designed it with the children’s happiness and health in mind where this small luxury is one that so many of us take for granted but make a huge difference in the development of this youngster.

Since the house is designed as a playground, interaction place for children, the parameter model should be something playful, interactive, interesting and moving. On the other hand, circulation could interpret through movement. Noticed that there is a ball moving around the prism where we can actually study the flow and space zoning. In addition, we can also study the wind ventilation, light penetration, view of the space and the activity within the space. It indirectly shows the experience and the atmosphere of once place to another.

02: Artistic Interpretation of Master Piece

Eggo House by A69 Architects
by Attan

The EggO House is a single-storey den of luxury built surrounding its own circular courtyard. The concrete-slab design creates a level horizon, with interiors that face one another by virtue of their curved, floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto the central garden. Inside, a large entrance hall leads you through the home’s various zones, each designed a little differently to accommodate either privacy, intimacy or social calls.

The conceptual model is based on the design principle of centralization, the motive of this model is to show that the viewing angel is controlled by the architecture form which keep the privacy of the house occupants and yet providing natural light and ventilation to the house.