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2. CONCEPT
Figure ? shows Herzog and de Meuron’ Vitrahaus, Vitras Flagship store which
functioned as a showroom of the company’ home collection, displayed throiught the
space. The building was playfully designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre
de Meuro, with the inspiration of the typical shape of a house in light of it being a
display of furniture for the home. The structure features 12 gable roofed stretched
houses stacked ontop of one another. The gable roofed house is the same shape
seen in made by Pen , I will be mimicking these stretched gable roof structures, in
the wooded dog house style of the dog room however, to create similar interjections
into the existing space as seen in Vitrahaus. They will oppose the materials of the
existing space to continue to build on the constructivism aesthetic. (Vitra. 2010).
Figure 58:VitraHaus, Germany. By Herzog and de Meuron.
(Etherington, R. 2010)
Initial sketches exploring ways that the stretched
houses in the style of VirtaHaus could interject
with the existing Rowing club structure.
Figure 59- 62: Sketches of Vitrahause and Rwoing
club. (Author, 2020).
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