Project Two: A Spatial Analysis of Adolf Loos Raumplan

“My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces (cubes). I do not design floor plans, facades, sections. I design spaces. For me, there is no ground floor, first floor etc.... For me, there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces etc. Storeys merge and spaces relate to each other. Every space requires a different height: the dining room is surely higher than the pantry, thus the ceilings are set at different levels. To join these spaces in such a way that the rise and fall are not only unobservable but also practical, in this I see what is for others the great secret, although it is for me a great maer of course. Coming back to your question, it is just this spatial interaction and spatial austerity that thus far I have best been able to realise in Dr Müller’s house” Adolf Loos, (Shorthand record of a conversation in Pilsen, 1930)

Figure 1: A 3d and plan analysis of the overall collection of spaces created within Loos' Villa Muller with the larger public spaces colour coded Red.

Figure 2: A 2d representation of all the spaces found within Loos' villa muller with the spaces ordered from Plan 2 at the top down to plan 6 at the bottom and largest spaces left to smallest right.

Figure 3: The collection of spacial analysis models.

Figure 4: My architectural proposition for a residential housing complex that explores a re-interpreted version of Adolf Loos' Raumplan using all the spaces found within the Villa Muller as a new building proposal. Through my conceptual proposal I explored the new ways/forms that the spaces of the Villa Muller can be intertwined and joined and how the allocation of larger public spaces towards the front can be mixed with the more private housing spaces towards the back in this imaginary landscape.

Figure 5: A 3D exploded model of the spaces found in plans 5 and 6 of the Villa Muller.

Figure 6: A 3D exploded model of the spaces found within plans 2, 3 and 4 of the Villa Muller. The aim of the exploded models was to really emphasise to the viewer the intricacy of spaces within the building and how they relate together yet operate as separate entities and spaces. Public (Silver), Private (white)

Figure 7: A 3D levelled model of the spaces found within the Villa Muller and how the public (silver) and private (white) spaces relate and exist together on a level basis showing that most of the spaces lie on the different planes and follow unique lines.