Glass House Section

Longitudinal section glass house philip johnson drawing.

Glass house section. Essentially the glass house is a rectangular prism. The bathroom and fireplace are enclosed in a brick cylinder. The one story house has a 32 x56 open floor plan enclosed in 18 feet wide floor to ceiling sheets of glass.

In other words all these things are mixed up in it but basically it is the last of the modern in the sense of the historic way we treat modern architecture today the. A stone tower rises above the jodlawa house including a guest bedroom and office with reflective glass windows that continue the visual elements of the endless glass. Completed in 2012 in hiroshima japan.

The plan view of the glass house is very close to golden section proportion. Next to the glass ceiling swimming pool shown above a long rectangular house features glass on every side and a cantilevered dining section rising above the natural plot below. Images by hiroshi nakamura nap koji fuji nacasa partners inc.

Doors are symmetrical at the center of each exterior wall. 1 12 jaficara umich edu this building is located in new canaan connecticut. The house bears the proposal completely surrounded the prism glass synthesis extreme environments and solving the various functions of the various sectors such as housing equipment within a single space rhythm only by the presence of the volume of home and in the form of the cubicle bath crescent.

The structure of the piece is serene and basic actively engaging the landscape. This house is sited among tall buildings in downtown hiroshima overlooking a street. The diameter of the cylinder is 1 3 the depth and 1 5 the length of the golden section rectangle.

In 1951 bo bardi designed the casa de vidro glass house to live with her husband in what was then the remnants of the mata atlantica the original rain forest surrounding são paulo. The glass house stylistically is a mixture of mies van der rohe malevich the parthenon the english garden the whole romantic movement the asymmetry of the 19th century. Pdf download painting gallery architectural drawings.