Four exercises of designing a residence attempt to observe and clarify the transformations in the ways and in the content of habitation, from the villas of Palladio to the residences of Loos and Le Corbusier, the residences of Konstantinides, Zanetos, Alvaro Siza, and Dimitris and Soyzanna Antonakaki, to the residences of Fatouros and the New York Fives, until the residences of Koolhaas, MVRDV and Scofidio and Diller: residence with privacy/residence without the element of privacy, residence with style/ residence without style, aesthetic/operation/technology,ratio firmitatis/utilitatis/venustatis, the platitudinous /the splendid, the copy/the prototype, the primitive hut…
1st Exercise: My own Residence
2nd Exercise: The residence of other
3rd Exercise: The fussy Residence
4th Exercise: The ideal Residence
“You use Stone, timber and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces… this it is manufacture. The inventiveness is presented on the work. However suddenly you touch upon my heart, you make me good, I feel happy and say: “This is beautiful!”. This is Architecture…”
Le Corbusier, 1923
It is enough to be built so that “it is included” in its environment, to bear the - often inhuman – meteorological conditions, to be utilitarian, perhaps and beautiful, for the residents at least. You may not see in this house, the house of your dreams, in this house however the residents dream.”
“The apotheosis of sheet-metal”
In various regions of Central America the cultivators of tea and tobacco make their houses in the properties using any material one can imagine. Their main structural material are the barrels of oil, that are opened and also change in level of sheets of metal. The way of manufacture in question, is used by the 18th century until today.”
Project by: Maria Papaloizou
Tutors: A.Kalfopoulos_D.Kontaxakis_S.Lada_L.Papadopoulos_S.Papadimitriou
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