Final Submission

In my parti diagrams I have attempted to represent the two distinct systems of organisation in Villa Muller. Much of the house is organised around a corridor system in which rooms lead off or terminate from a corridor. All the service areas use the corridor system. Rooms either lead off the core service staircase, offering an easy and discreet way for cleaning and maintenance to be carried out, or lead off other distinct corridors and terminate, giving these rooms a sense of being privately tucked away from the more public areas of the house. The corridor organisation is represented in light blue.

The more public domain within the house uses a combination of corridor and interconnected organisation to join spaces. This is important in Loos organisation of the house based on the theory of 'raumplan' in which storeys and spaces relate and interconnect according to their functional and symbolic importance. This organisation allows the viewer to have a visual connection with their movements,as cut away walls allow them to see into several rooms of the house from one spot. Interconnected organisation is represented in yellow.










My poche renderings attempt to show both the penetration of light in Villa Muller as well as the depth and level of the various spaces. I created these renderings by tracing the sections and plans onto clear trace paper, using different grades of pencil to emphasise the cut layers. I then used several different shades of grey copic marker and pencil to render the interior spaces. I decided to use tones of warm grey for the areas used by guests and patrons, and tones of cool grey for the service areas. The difference in the tones emphasises and separates the two uses of the building and emphasises how the distribution of windows and light creates a visual separation between these two sections.

The fact that the outer shell is white is very appropriate to the building which has an austere, plain, modernist exterior, giving emphasis to the warm and comfortably decorated interior.