robie house

our second project was issued on friday and i am VERY excited about it. we are given a case study (master piece of architecture in this case) and are asked to analyze why it is a successful piece of work. i was given the opportunity to diagram and deconstruct frank lloyd wright's robie house. i've been diagramming it for a few days now and have a pretty good understanding as to the makeup of the house.



much has to do with shifting planes, privacy for the owner, an open floor plan, and long cantilevering roofs. much of what defines the house initially are the roofs that cantilever out from the building. these roofs protrude out and establish an overhead planes that defines a space below and also provides shade and shelter from the sun and rain/snow respectively.

the house is very interesting and i am really excited to further my explorations of it. on friday i need to have a few presentation boards showing my analysis of the house. after that, i am to rebuild the house in model form to an 1/8" scale. this will be a challenge as it will coincide with the final part of the project which entails my program to add a 3 room addition to the house. the final details of this part have not been ironed out by the professors but i am already thinking of it and the challenges i will face.