Year: FALL 2016
Typology: residential
About: Undergraduate studies/ Judson University
Project Location: Plano, IL
Advisor: Stacey Burtleson
Media
Drawing: Ink on Mylar
Model: Museum board
Drawing: Ink on Mylar
Model: Museum board
Project Brief
Farnsworth House, designed by a great modernist architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, sits by the Fox River in Plano, Illinois. Mies' masterpiece holds a strong relationship between the house and nature by opening up the entire space to the woods around it.
The big glass windows framed by the floor, ceiling and structural columns to maximize the view to the outside; however, the openness also became a privacy issue for its client. This proposal for the addition to Farnsworth House both maintains the openness to nature and secure the privacy needed for its residents. Public and social spaces open up to the outside views maintaining Mies' idea of blurring the spatial distinction between the interior and exterior space while the most private and intimate space, the master room, is concealed by the walls around it. Not even a glimpse of the room is exposed from the outside. However, the private space opens out into nature through the adjacent courtyard, space where vertical openness is emphasized.
The general design is composed with the proportion and grids of the structural columns. The floor planning also borrows Mies' planning strategy which eliminates the needs for doors unless for a security issue.
