House

Our first project within our house project was to research a modernist house used as a home that was built by a famous architect around the 1920's. It was a group project that involved various presentations of our findings and a new proposal of how we could make the interior structure of the house a better place to be today. The house that we chose was the Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto. During our research we had to find five points that were significant to the design of that house and represent each one of them with a diagram or a drawing. We found that Villa Mairea was designed for Aalto's friends and therefore he was given a clear slate and could design what ever he wanted to design - he could experiment. The Villa was also to be used as a guesthouse and therefore the L-shaped layout came into place. After looking into the free forms of the house and the different use of materials we decided that our proposal could involve sectioning off the master bedroom of the house and give the owners a place to retreat to without any of the guests. This sectioned off area would take all the free form curves used in any of the other parts of the house and bring them all together. As the rest of the L-shape is quite straight and blunt, the curved owners part would be noticeably different and noticeably theirs. 

These are just our presentation boards to show the overview of the idea. They go alongside the powerpoint presentation that we had to present.