Project 1 Phrase 1.1
Chommalee Durongpisitkul
Pau Sarquella
Didactic DNA
'a house must be like a small city if it's to be a real home; a city like a large house if it's to be a real home'. - Aldo Van Eyck
The case study of this project is the Hubertus House. The Hubertus House or Mother House is a hostel for single parents and children located on Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The building designed by a Dutch architect, Aldo van Eyck, and built in 1980.
From the overall look of the house.
The building used concrete construction of columns and floors with steel and glass facade. It’s also colorful building, makes the building seen as the cheerful and peace place. The staircase is seen from outside the building but the entrance is not. The entrance located behind the main facade, pass through an exterior space.
MSP Matrix Layout
The overall building is build in between two historical house. The concept of the building is to help single mom and their children to find temporary shelter and a place to restart their life and career after the world war two event. It has the professional help available. The building is still in use by a charitable institution. The location of the room created based on logical idea. The parents’ rooms and offices located near the street while the children’s rooms, including playing sleeping space, located located farther inside of the building. It’s because the parents had more activities on the street than the children.
The staircase is a central feature of Hubertus House and clearly visible from the street. The supporting construction is a concrete construction of columns and floors. This building is about connection and separation. One of the most striking features is the relationship between the building and the street. To enter, you pass through an exterior space located above the sidewalk level and behind the main facade. This buffer zone with a step-back entrance naturally filtering who will enter and indicating that you are entering a share but peaceful space.
The main detail in the building is how Aldo Van Eyck choose the color and geometry shape to design the building. He chose one color for the facade, namely ‘the rainbow color’. He believes that colorful place will make children feel cheerful and creative. The basic geometry form used in the house are his intention, he believes that the minimalist shape will enhance and will not limit children's creativity and increase a chance of exploration.
Other work of Aldo Van Eyck
The playground in Amsterdam, 1954
Aldo Van Eyck designed the playground equipment, including the tumbling bars, chutes and hemispheric jungle gyms, and his children tested them. To him, play equipment was an integral part of the commission. Its purpose was to stimulate the minds of children. The hemispherical jungle gym was not just something to climb. It was a place to talk and a lookout post.
Sonsbeek pavilion in Arnhem, 1966
The unspectacular construction is a careful exercise in plan drawing: six parallel walls almost 4 meter high are placed with a distance of 2.5 meter from each other. The way the walls bend forming semicircular spaces and the sudden cuts transform this simple pattern in a complex spatial device. The idea was the structure should not reveal what happens inside until one gets quite close, approaching it from the ends.
Style and concept
Trenton Bath House - Louis Kahn (geometry)
Oko house - Frei Otto (combine building with nature)
The color park - Enric miralles (color)
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