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/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Renaudie & Gailhoustet 1969

Todo el centro de la ciudad de Ivry fue construido entre 1969 y 1975 por Jean Renaudie y su compañero Renee Gailhoustet. El complejo se caracterizaba por el apilamiento desordenado de diferentes viviendas, donde todas las composiciones se basan en geometrías triangulares. El resultado es una acumulación aleatoria de viviendas en gran parte acristaladas y que tienen un ecosistema vegetal propio, ya que la mayoría de las residencias tienen amplias terrazas-jardín, que con el paso de los años adoptan todo el protagonismo expresivo del edificio.

(source: VAUMM)

/  by Thomas DeVoss

“Wright’s design of 1923 responded to the expansive qualities of the Doheny site, respected local vegetation, and accommodated the automobile in both spatial and architectural terms. It was nothing less than an idealized prototype for wh…

“Wright’s design of 1923 responded to the expansive qualities of the Doheny site, respected local vegetation, and accommodated the automobile in both spatial and architectural terms. It was nothing less than an idealized prototype for what American suburbs might have become, but did not. As surviving perspectives demonstrate, buildings, roadways, and plantings are conceived as an integrated totality; it is the vision of the suburb as one structure.

Roadways depicted as powerful visual elements appear to terrace the hills, providing a unifying pattern. Developed in the manner of viaducts, they bridge intermediate ravines on gracefully arcuated spans or massively embank the steep terrain. Walls defining these roadways extend to become walls of the houses themselves.

Numerous roof terraces broaden the horizontal planes of the connecting roads, amplifying an architectural image of vast scale. Both roads and houses are clustered in ways that structure the site by selectively shaping and retaining the natural slopes. The more fragile segments of valleys and the steepest slopes are left largely untouched, but are joined in the full composition to achieve an effect of extraordinary unity.”

-LOC

/  by Thomas DeVoss

ryanpanos:

The Dome in the Desert by Wendell Burnette via Archdaily

“A glass house in the desert? Was it an architectural caprice, a folly, or was it a solution to the problems of desert living whose appropriateness is still not recognized? Having had the experience of living in The Dome for a full year, through all the seasons, I felt it incumbent upon myself to take a fresh look at this remarkable work of architecture.”