Model photos, Casa a Mendrisio © Laure Nashed
Section through staircase
© Laure Nashed
Ground Floor Plan
© Laure Nashed
Floor plan 1st floor
© Laure Nashed
› 2011, Design project in the bachelor studies at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio in the Walter Angonese studio.
› Open spatial connections, the suspension of traditional floor layering, complex spatial structures with different room heights and differences in levels: these are the architectural characteristics of the “Raumplan”. The three-dimensional spatial concept developed by Adolf Loos, the pioneering figure of Viennese Modernism, was our core theme in Walter Angonese’s studio. The experiment of spatial modulation according to Loos and its contemporary interpretation shaped the semester designs of the residential houses in Mendrisio for a family of four.
The arrangement of the rooms in the presented project arose from an analysis of the requirements of the different rooms and possible relationships to each other. The investigation of the necessary room height resulted in another important building component for the implementation of the idea of the “room plan”. The rooms are furthermore organised according to the characteristics “representative”, “public” and “private”. The bedrooms, the most intimate rooms in the house, are arranged at the top. The different effects of compression and expansion – of protective niches and generous spaces – can be felt throughout the house.
The need of each room for natural light and a view of the Ticino mountains determines the size and position of the windows, which can be seen in the façade. The façade is designed in solid exposed brickwork and conveys a protective impression. Inside, the interplay of different room heights and views, of light and shadow and the noble, warm wooden surfaces creates a rich and poetic architecture.
› 2011, Design project in the bachelor studies at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio in the Walter Angonese studio.
› Open spatial connections, the suspension of traditional floor layering, complex spatial structures with different room heights and differences in levels: these are the architectural characteristics of the “Raumplan”. The three-dimensional spatial concept developed by Adolf Loos, the pioneering figure of Viennese Modernism, was our core theme in Walter Angonese’s studio. The experiment of spatial modulation according to Loos and its contemporary interpretation shaped the semester designs of the residential houses in Mendrisio for a family of four.
The arrangement of the rooms in the presented project arose from an analysis of the requirements of the different rooms and possible relationships to each other. The investigation of the necessary room height resulted in another important building component for the implementation of the idea of the “room plan”. The rooms are furthermore organised according to the characteristics “representative”, “public” and “private”. The bedrooms, the most intimate rooms in the house, are arranged at the top. The different effects of compression and expansion – of protective niches and generous spaces – can be felt throughout the house.
The need of each room for natural light and a view of the Ticino mountains determines the size and position of the windows, which can be seen in the façade. The façade is designed in solid exposed brickwork and conveys a protective impression. Inside, the interplay of different room heights and views, of light and shadow and the noble, warm wooden surfaces creates a rich and poetic architecture.
