ENDS 205
Fall 2013
Indexicality: Case Study House #9 (PRELIM 1)
For this project, we each chose a house from the Case Study Houses. We analyzed, in great detail, the plan or diagram of our house and found the most interesting organizational aspects of it.
These houses were a residential architecture experiment for Arts & Architecture magazine that included some of the major architects of that era (i.e. Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig and Eero Saarinen). This project was created at the end of WWII, (1946-66) with the return of all the troops, to create inexpensive, modern homes for the U.S. residential housing boom.
I chose CSH9, a.k.a. the Entenza House, (1949) by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen.
The original diagram is extremely orthogonal and square, with 2 subtle angles that cut through the living room and would supposedly meet somewhere outside of the house. The first angle creates a void. The second, is outside and more discrete. I extended these angles through out the whole house in my modifications to the diagram. I then used these new angles as a means of organization. In my model, I chose to build right from the plan, but also to create abnormal, sharp figures with hard edges to exaggerate the idea of the angles.
ARCH 205
FALL 2013
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