Muuratsalo Experimental House

Paraskevi Komodromou, Maria Prodromou, Eftychia Nastou

Alvar Aalto

“ I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.”

Alvar Aalto-Experimental House

•  Architect: Alvar Aalto •  Location: Muuratsalo, Filand •  Built: 1953 •  Type of project: Experimental- Summer

House

Architectural Approach

•  experimenting with building without foundations

•  experimenting with free-form column structures

•  experimenting with different types of materials

Materials

• Wood • Different types of brick • Different types of ceramics

Close to the environment

•  Local materials •  Local techniques •  Frames the landscape

Court

Interior Features

Solar heating

Accessibility

Views

Sections

Abstract model

•  Experimenting with spatial arrangement

“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper”.

Alvar Aalto