Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Magazine Project
With its cooking ideas, gardening tips, home improvement, and parenting skills, Better Homes and Gardens can cater to any woman’s needs. As the 1940’s came to a close, entertaining in your home remained the predominant task of every woman, with a large genre of categories that all contributed to the idea of welcoming guests into the home. From start to finish, the magazine offers recipes, cooking instructions, ways to help raise your children, and tips on how to make your home more presentable.
According to the magazine, adding color to an interior space makes it more interesting and better to entertain in.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Great Houses
After researching the Glass House by Phillip Johnson, I drew a floorplan, a section, and some perspectives to showcase his design. The use of glass in Phillip Johnson’s own house accentuates the idea of pullingelements of the outside into the interior. With the entire structure exposed, natural light enters all angles of the space and serves as the main light source.
The beautiful scenery surrounding the building brings playful reactions on the glass windows and results in interesting shadows among the interior spaces. The glass exterior allows the
structure to look light and delicate and adds to the overall feeling of the space.
After completing this commission, Johnson hoped to engage other forms of modern
art onto this 47-acre plot of land. ese structures add to Johnson’s idea of minimalist
design, geometry, proportion, and light. Spread out across the entire plot, each small
structure contributes a unique shape, material, use of light. The site plan to the right
indicates the Glass House in black and the other structures in gray.
With the space as mostly one open room, Johnson identi es and separates used areas through the use of area rugs and low cabinets. The one private space in the structure - the bathroom - brings a quaint quality to the scheme as it stands just big enough for one person. The structure makes the user feel as if they sit outside and have no walls surrounding them. During the day, the scenery of the forest comes inside, but at night, the arti cial light extrudes into the forest.
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