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treading lightly on the landscape, the building cantilevers out 27 meters to a point 18 meters above the terrain below.
franck bohbot traveled to richard neutra's VDL research house II and documented it, capturing two generations of architectural experimentation.
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the micro-hotel room is enclosed by a tiny topography of stepping terraces.
the architects say that the building, and the activity that takes place within it, is meant to transform the way in which buildings are designed, engineered, and built.
I think the transparency of the seating was exactly the point: it looks like a theater because it IS a theater. If it didn’t resemble what it was, there would be no consistency or coherency between the architectural object and its program.
i know these guys are not formalists, so i wouldn’t expect them to have the most resolved form, but i think the goal of creating a “pure presence” is not achieved, because the architectural object is too recognizable. what i mean is, we see very clearly that this is a theater with stadium seating. when there is a visual bother, it becomes impossible to attain a “pure presence.” im not sure what the curator sought in this commission.