TUM SoSe 2019
Master Seminar
Lehrstuhl für Entwerfen und Gebäudehülle
Prof. Schlenker, Rebekka
Dozent Dr.-Ing. Philipp Molter
TUM
Teamwork x 5
M. Guo & Y. Sun & M. Waske & E. Gomez & H. Li
TUM SoSe 2019
Master Seminar
Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice
Prof. Dr. Andres Lepik
Dozent Heß, Regine, Dr. phil.
Solo
Comparison between Meisterhaus Kandinsky/Klee at Dessau and Kruskal House and Halperin House at Tel Aviv
Meisterhaus Kandinsky/Klee by Walter Gropius, 1925/1926
The Kandinsky / Klee master house (fig. 1) is part of the ensemble planned by Walter Gropius for the Bauhaus masters in Dessau. It sits in the forest, where the big white volumes hide its appearance behind the green. It is in the sightline of the Georgium palace.
The ground plan demonstrates that the house is separated into two parts. Between the two halves, there is an invisible axis in the middle of the plan, where one half rotates to 180 degrees and unites the whole into one piece (fig. 2).
On the south and east elevation, these projecting balconies from the wall surface create a transitional space.
The enlargement of Tel Aviv was eventually constructed under Bauhaus architectural influences, from which many buildings tell. It was firstly conceived as a small garden city north of the ancient port city of Jaffa. .By the early 1930s, a large number of European Jews had immigrated to Palestine, which was under British Mandate. Among them were many from Germany, who had escaped as a consequence of the rise of the Nazis. Some of them had studied at the Bauhaus School in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, and were familiar with the contemporary trends exposed by architects such as Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Le Corbusier and Erich Mendelsohn.
Kruskal House by Richard Kauffmann, 1931
The main elevation has two main foci (fig. 3): the vertical stairwell window and the horizontal window, which cuts the façade along its entire length. Coming from the hot and dry climate, shading canopies were built over the horizontal windows, which also highlight the horizontal elements.
From the ground plan (fig. 4), Kruskal house is like the master house at Dessau separated into two parts. Also here, there is an invisible axis in the middle of the plan, where one half rotates to 90 degrees and unites the whole into one piece.
Halperin House by Sam Barkai, 1935
Halperin House’s main elevation faces Yalag street and, like Kruskal House it also has two main foci: the vertical stairwell window and the three projecting balconies (fig. 5). The elongated balconies give onto the Gordon street elevation and impact the horizontal flow of this façade.
At the southern end of the Yalag street elevation, these same balconies project from the wall surface and create a slight vertical emphasis at the corner. The building is raised on a plinth, and each of its details relates to the immediate surroundings, such as the palm trees planted along the central axis of the balconies.
Conclusion
Common features of these three houses include cubic volumes, lack of decorations, an asymmetric façade, a flat roof, and horizontal and vertical window hinges. The play of shadow and light at the façade is achieved by balconies and wall openings. The horizontal axes formed by the balconies often contrast with the vertical of the stairwell windows or a roof parapet. Features specific for Tel Aviv, coming from its hot and dry climate, are long narrow recessed windows shaded by balconies, which limit the heat and glare.
Mengxue Guo
Reference:
Nitza Metzger-Szmuk, Des maisons sur le sable. Mouvement moderne et Esprit Bauhaus / Dwelling on the Dunes. Tel Aviv. Modern Movement and Bauhaus Ideals, Publisher: L’Éclat, 2004
01. Comparison between Bauhaus-Building of Walter Gropius and ADGBBundesschule of Hannes Meyer
Wassily Kandinsky’s Course & Paul Klee’s Course
“rational irrationalism”
Selfie
https://www.archdaily.com/87728/ad-classics-dessau-bauhaus-walter-gropius
https://www.archdaily.com/87728/ad-classics-dessau-bauhaus-walter-gropius
https://www.archdaily.com/87728/ad-classics-dessau-bauhaus-walter-gropius
TUM SoSe 2019
Master Seminar
Urban Habitat & Munich Plan is a research programme which examines the urban structuring of the city of Munich.
Studio Krucker Bates
Prof. Stephen Bates & Prof. Bruno Krucker
Dozentin Claudia Düll-Buchecker
TUM
Gruppenarbeit x 3
M. Guo & Y. Sun & Q. Zhang
Große Gruppe x 8
Isidora & Mirco & Markus
Aaron & Eva
+3
Deconstruction & Reconstruction_Halensiedlung, Atelier 5 + Studiolo 3, Martin Huberman & Normal Studio
RÉPUBLIQUE GÉNIALE
EINE KOOPERATION VON KUNSTMUSEUM BERN UND DAMPFZENTRALE BERN
https://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/de/sehen/heute/741-republique-geniale-120.html
RÉPUBLIQUE GÉNIALE
EINE KOOPERATION VON KUNSTMUSEUM BERN UND DAMPFZENTRALE BERN
https://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/de/sehen/heute/741-republique-geniale-120.html
p18 Anarchy — Chaos
“For it’s not new techniques we need but new man.”
p78 + p153
“It seems that human brain is too slow to grasp the universal, too fast to grasp the particular, and its own deep processes. By definition, man is stupid.”
“Rot: We always behave as we could do something besides what we do.”
“Humans will always choose what they understand over what they do not.”
Westworld
p80 “Everybody will some day as specialized good-for-something work is left more and more to machines to do.”
p20 Leisure
“In spite of heavy school schedules, children partly because they do not have to provide food and shelter for themselves, have leisure during which to practice their natural imagination.”
“There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.” -- Leonard Cohen
p116 + p181
“Mila Repa … and by this process of not teaching, he ultimately educated him…”
“ZEN BUDDHISM EXPLAINED TO THOSE IN THE DARK
3 candles, an old shoe are disposed on a ring.
In front of the 1st candle is written:
you take a candle
In front of the 2nd candle:
first it is a candle
In front of the shoe:
then it is not a candle
In front of the 3rd candle:
then once more it’s a candle ”
