Dancing Building - Secondary Research

The Dancing House, or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the NationaleNederlanden building on the Rašínovo nábřeží in Prague, Czech Republic. It is an interesting building with its architecture making it an attraction found in Prague.

The building is made of 3 main parts with the glass, squashed cylinders, the cylinder window section with the metal on top as well as the side facade being tens of windows that are not placed in completely straight manner.

To study this space I drew the plan view as well as the elevations of the 2 sides the building is visible since it is a corner lot. On the corner we can see the cylinder with the long and short windows being warped around it with curves following the building. The higher up you go the wider the cylinder gets. To the right the glass section seems as if its naturally squeezed down the middle as its gets thinner and has a wider top and base. This part breaks up the windows as all the blue glass breaks up the large about of smaller windows. The rest of the building is designed in a similar way and it heavily contrasts the neighbouring traditional builds and stands out.