The House at Regensburg was built in 1979 and is located in Regensburg, Germany. It was designed by Thomas Herzog a German architect born in Munich 1941. Many of Herzog’s buildings are associated with bioclimatic architecture and eco-friendly buildings mainly due to the fact Herzog was involved in the concept of solar power technology.
During this essay I will analyse Thomas Herzog’s House at Regensburg and explain the themes and principles behind different aspects of the house in comparison to two other bioclimatic or eco-friendly houses in the 20th century.
Herzog used a wide variety of materials for the construction throughout his career, but the type of materials used is influenced by the proposed purpose and or appearance of the design. For example the House at Regensburg uses reinforced glass to the south of the house to control the suns solar energy distributing throughout the house when and where appropriate is resulting in saving fifty percent of the energy that would be required by a normal house. To achieve this there is a conservatory/greenhouse with a sloping roof which also shares the roofline of the first floor. As a result this aspect of the house acts as a normal greenhouse by trapping the suns heat and distributing it in a variety of ways whilst acting as a normal greenhouse and
conservatory resulting in a more natural looking building.
The types of materials used for this purpose also have a function and specific aesthetic qualities. The reinforced glass has the function of trapping the suns solar energy, but also aids good aesthetic qualities increasing the sense of space. The veneered chipboard and plywood repeats this aspect of the house by heavily insulating the walls and decorate the house. These mat...
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...As a result I can conclude that these houses are similar in terms of their main purpose of being eco-friendly and all use different ways of doing so for example solar energy and conserving heat loss through different methods. The House at Regensburg and The Hockerton Housing Project both use these energy saving techniques for form and function for example wood and glass is used for aesthetics and a natural atmosphere while acting as insulation. Also these houses can arguably be vernacular it terms of style, materials used and technique, but maybe to a stretched view of being vernacular. Therefore these ideals also follow Frank Lloyd Wright’s ideals of ‘form and function are one’ (Jackie Craven, page 1 2009). All the houses also have similar layouts in terms of zoning and how each part of the building is used aiding the user even though they were built decades apart.
Gehry draws his inspiration from famous paintings such as the Madonna and Child which he qualifies as a “strategy for architecture” (Friedman M. , 2003, p. 42) and which he used as an inspiration for a project in Mexico . Through his interpretation of the paintings and artwork, Gehry looked for a new kind of architecture. His search for a new type of architecture culminated in 1978 with his own house in Santa Monica. What was once a traditional Californian house would be redesigned to become one of the most important and revolutionary designs of the 20th century, giving Gehry international prestige and fame. Frank Gehry’s “Own House” uses a mixture of corrugated metal, plywood, chain link and asphalt to construct a new envelope for an existing typical Californian house. This house has been inspired by Joseph Cornell, Ed Moses and Bob Rauschenberg. Gehry comments on his house by saying that there was something “magical” (Friedman M. , 2003, p. 54) about it. He admits having “followed the end of his [my] nose” (Friedman M. , 2003, p. 54) when it came to constructing the “new” house, which led Arthur Drexler, former Director...
...ossible to live in. The Haus des Architekten can be linked to a number of different houses, both from the start of the century and the end too, it relates to the Orchard with the vernacular materials and pitched roofing, designed around another family building, but this house was designed at the end of the Arts & Crafts era where as Haus des Architekten was designed during the modernity period. The design of Tessenow’s house features can be seen in the Rudin house in France too, which was built 67 years later. This house is far more minimal from the design of the roof, to the materials used and the interior layout of the house. House Rudin also indicates how houses develop over the years, with the addition of features and the loss of less important things, in this case the removal of the basement is the main difference, and this space transformed for other uses.
Today in my assignment I will be talking to you about Timber Frame Construction and its Cladding Systems. I will go on to mention its current position, what a Cladding is, I will also give a brief summary of the characteristics of different types of claddings. Also a diagram will be presented will labels of a cladding system fastened onto a timber framed building.
In passive solar design, the vertical and horizontal surfaces control the heat transfer; in winters collect and distribute solar heat and dissipate heat in summer. Passive solar techniques utilize solar energy through direct or indirect solar gain to achieve environmental comfort in the building. The key factors in passive solar building design are: site planning and design; thermal mass; solar geometry; ventilation and vegetation.
He created a style of architecture to reflect America’s character. The central themes of his style were the landscape, people, and democracy in America. His style was heavily influenced by the midwest, the region where he grew up. His houses aimed to encourage the inhabitants to connect and communicate with one another. The hearth, dining room, and terrace all exemplify this, creating, and open, warm and welcoming space.
It is an under statement to refer to these buildings as houses at all though. They were clearly much more than this, in even their smallest proportions. The Domus Aurea itself was a series of buildings and landscapes designed to give the impression of a vast park in a relatively small area for such a thing (Picard 116). The idea behind this was that you would create something more beautiful for the beholder if your creation was beautiful for how you used the earth.
Gehry’s additional design of the exterior has created an unconventional model form of house. The asymmetrical form characterizes the entire external side of the house. According to Goldstein, Gehry tried to slant the house roofline, create a false perspective and cause an absurd viewer’ perception or expectation (1979, 9). The complexity of the form might also produce a relationship with the house’s elements such as door, wall, and roof. For example, those elements, which linearly constructed, were hardly noticed since the distraction of geometric form around the exterior part of the house. It’s even barely hard to find the entrance of the house as a result of the salient angles of exterior.
Heurich wanted his residence to serve as a reflection of his distinguished business success and abundant contributions to his community. He stayed true to his humble beginnings and hired only German-Americans to build the home of his dreams. John Granville Meyers, a local expert in fireproof construction was hired to design and construct the immense mansion. Heurich’s personal experience with fires at his brewery unquestionably influenced his decision for implementing advanced building techniques in the construction of his home. Heurich’s 13,000 square foot mansion was the first fire proof structure built in the a...
The German Pavilion was designed in 1929 for the International Exposition in Barcelona. It was commissioned by the German government as a representation of the new German Republic after the devastation of World War I. What Mies van der Rohe
Thesis: Gottfried Semper and Karl Friedrich Schinkel are two of the most notable names in architecture and architectural theory from the 19th Century. Both of these men practiced architecture during the 1800’s in Europe and both men held strong convictions regarding their personal answers to the question of what architecture is and should be. By critically examining the works and writings of these men, discerning the similarities and differences of beliefs and practices, delving into the historic contexts and reasoning behind their beliefs, we as architects gain a better understanding of the art of designing the built environment.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier are two very prominent names in the field of architecture. Both architects had different ideas concerning the relationship between humans and the environment. Their architectural styles were a reflection of how each could facilitate the person and the physical environment. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture and Le Corbusier s Villa Savoye helped define the progression that modern architecture was to take in the 20th Century. Both men are very fascinating and have strongly influenced my personal taste for modern architecture. Although Wright and Corbusier each had different views on how to design a house, they also had similar beliefs. This paper is a comparison of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s and Le Corbusier ‘s viewpoints exhibited through their two prominent houses, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye.
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Its elegant and sleek design came by to its combination of rich natural materials used leading into foundations of the Modernism of Architecture and it is what brings true architectural essence as well as the ethereal and experiential qualities that the pavilion embodies. . “Less is More” quote by Mies as suggested by his intensive use of glass in buildings as a new level of simplicity and transparency. Glass was an expression of the current age of industrialism as he believed a building should be “a clear and true statement of its times. Fundamentally, Mies’s design philosophy and one of the driving forces behind his use of glass was the concept of fluid space as stated before. He believed that architecture should embody a continuous flow of space, blurring the lines between interior and exterior. The use of glass became apparent for the purpose of that, with movable glass allowed for space to be seen as flexible and independent of the structure itself. Most definitely a clear understanding and clever function of the the material’s usage, the use of glass inherits its pellucidity with the a subtle harmony of a modernist structure. Streamlining the simplistic nature of the structure."Artistic expression is a manifestation of the unity of design and material…” from Frank
Human beings are susceptible to the force of nature. They had to make shelter for themselves. Material was one of the most basic tools to create shelter. By development of building construction, selection and use of materials also developed. The relationship between the architecture and the materials before invention of modern materials was simple and generally naturally [1]; in the past, architects always use tradition materials according their experimental skills. For choosing structural materials, they had attention to important factors such as availability (local materials) and harmony with climate and culture [2], although this way was forward with feedback. But this relationship was not continuing simply.