Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Folding of the Millard House

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Millard House, also known as "La Miniatura", is Wright's earliest "usonian" houses. The house is innovative because of its textile block building system.


Folding the paper was interesting and very challenging in terms of finding spacial sequences in the plans, I found the most difficulty in trying to fold and create space that related to the Millard House



These two attempts were some if the most successful, in mu opinion, of creating a nice spacial sequence or a some kind of form
( the bottom one even stands up!)

















The Drodel below was special because I used a hierarchy of the program to create the folds, the important pieces of this floor, the entry level, the dining room, kitchen and the entrance were folded up while the service and storage areas were folded down

This actually worked to create some interesting side views which I believe would look good in section
The negative side of the fold also looks very interesting with the moving planes



1 comment:

  1. for the assignment, planes and folds and spaces don't need to relate to the house (they drawings are only generative). perhaps the question is more of how the forms that you make relate or address to the site and program of the project. also, perhaps good would be to work on a larger scale

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