DANIEL RIDDELLS3053091

REMAKE / REMODEL: THE PM’S READING ROOM

CAMP DAVIDWEEK 4:

ARCHITECTURELATE 60’S

RESEARCH:

HARRY & PENELOPE SEIDLER HOUSE - HARRY SEIDLERKILLARA, SYDNEY1966-1967

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE - JORN UTZONSYDNEY1959-1973

BAKER HOUSE - ROBIN BOYDBACCHUS MARSH, VICTORIA1964-1966

Robin Boyd describes the house in his book living in Australia as follows:

‘As well as the usual accommodation for the family the,house was to contain a schoolroom where the children could be taught at home. No public services were available when the building started, although electricity came soon after. Rainwater had to be caught and stored and it seemed necessary to supplement the thin shade from the profuse of gums. A strong brown slate that split into thick chunks was available locally. Somehow it was like designing a building for Robinson Crusoe. This would be the only manmade thing to disturb the calm of the bush. So despite the romantic ma-terials, a classical closed formality seemed called for in the form of the structure. The roof became a low pyramid, 27.5 metres square over symmetrically curved stone walls linked by straight window walls. The tanks became stone cylinders supporting the edge of the roof. Service rooms and children’s sleeping cubicles formed an inner ring around the court.’

The internal courtyard serves as the owners private traditional English garden, with scubland surrounding the exterior of the house.

ELROD HOUSE - JOHN LAUTNERPALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA1968

The Elrod house was commissioned by interior designer Arthur Elrod. Arguably the most widely seen of Lautner’s works, the Elrod House (1968) became famous through its use as a location in the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.[42][43] Situated on a commanding hillside in the desert outside Palm Springs, California, its best-known feature is the large circular “sunburst” concrete canopy which appears to float above the main living area; this area also incorporates a large natural rock outcrop at the edge of the room, creating the impression that the fabric of the building is fused with the rock. The canopy is fitted with curved glass-and-aluminium sliding doors that allow the space to be completely opened around half its circumference, opening out to a semi-circular swimming pool and a broad terrace.

The Elrod House is one of Lautners last examples of a distributed plan in which Lautner radiates zones off the build-ing into distinctive segments that spread out from a central point, often to the perimeters of the site.

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM - LOUIS KAHNFORT WORT, TEXAS1966- 1972

SAN CRISTOBAL - LUIS BARRAGANMEXICO CITY, MEXICO1966-1968

San Cristobal consists of a private dwelling and stud farm just outside of Mexico City.

The site layoit is often described as having surreal undertones. A dwelling for humans is placed next to a dwelling for horses, the plans echoing one another as if there were no essential difference between these two types of animal.

The human house is a composition of stucco cubic forms perforated by squarish windows and divided into two main blocks by the entrance hall internally. The dwelling plan in intself is unremarkable, the main intrest being the relationship between the internal and external.

The dividing wall, / verandah / pool arrangment of the human house is repeated on a larger scale scale for the horses. The pool is made monumental by a water-fall that arcs out of a continuation of the stables wall.

Oversized colourful walls line the perimeter and divide spaces with carefully placed apetures allowing access and views between spaces.

Barragans could be described as a Mexican Modernist, though further to this, his work after World War 2 is often described as ‘emotional,’ ‘surreal’ and ‘mythical’.

CAMP DAVIDDRAW:

SITE - POINT NEPEAN, VICTORIA

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SITE - POINT NEPEAN, VICTORIA

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PROCESS DIAGRAM - GOLDEN RECTANGLE

CAMP ‘HOLT’

PM'S STUDY

READING

ROOM

BATH

ROOM

PM'S LIVING

ROOM

DINING ROOM

KITCHEN

STORE

COURTYARD

COURTYARDCOURTYARD SUMMIT ROOM

BREAKOUT INFORMAL

MEETING ROOM

STUDY

BATH

ROOM

GARAGE

SECURITY

ROOM

BATH

ROOM

GUEST

LOUNGE

PM'S OUTDOOR

DINING ROOM

DRIVEWAY

PORT

COCHER

HELI PAD

FIELD

DRIVEWAY

ENTRY