RAUMPLAN

It’s been stated that the “Raumplan” has never been defined. However, the concept has grown accordingly with each commission under Loos’ name. This conceptual model defines the Strasser House as a plan of volumes rather than simply an arrangement of two dimensional spaces. The Strasser House by Adolf Loos was set in the countryside of Vienna Austria, in 1918. It was one of the earliest attempts of the Raumplan in which each space would have varying ceiling heights based on the needs of each room. In order to dissect the qualities of the “Raumplan;” a conceptual model was created in which each void space and interior wall is represented. The interior masses were abstracted and combined based on their function and are represented using task-board coated in white paint. The representation of walls and floors were created using a combination of varying acrylic thicknesses in order to represent primary, secondary, tertiary divisions. Each etching on the acrylic represents an opening on the building’s interior, to better display circulation between rooms. Visualization in three dimensional space is needed to comprehend the complex elements displayed within the Raumplan. Aspects of this “plan of rooms” are better represented through a system of masses, that way critical elements are highlighted. By leaving just the voids that involve movement, the circulation of the house can be revealed as it spirals through the house. The use of split levels show the broken grid and how Loos was able to incorporate mezzanines in between pre-existing floors.

IN COLLABORATION WITH - Christian Martinez and Garrett Redditt PROFESSOR - Andrew Tripp CONTRIBUTIONS - Drawings, Digital Modeling, Physical Modeling

VOLUMES OUTLINING PRIMARY CIRCULATION PATHS

VOLUMES CONTAINING SPLIT LEVELS