RESEARCH

TUGENDHAT CURVE

Designer

Peyman Soleimani

Period

MA+U year two 2017-2018

Mentor

Filippo Maria Doria , Marc Schoonderbeek

INTRODUCTIOn

The project which was a part of the first semester of the second year of Master of Architecture Study tried to translate the architectural detail into another form of graphical representation which could be transience the definite and literal meaning of the former drawing.
In this process, “Tugendhat House” designed by “Mies Van de Rohe” in 1929 in “Czech Republic” in a city named Brno, was selected and each participant focus on one of the details from the building. My part was to study the detail of the curved wall and the final result supposed to be a drawing like a painting which could show the meaning that I understand from the detail and the house itself.

 

OBJECTIVe + SOLUTIOn

By observing an examining both the image and the construction details of the wall I choose “Unity“ and “ Pluralism” as two keywords which represent my experience from the picture. The next step was a writing description of my understanding of the image and detail which bring new words and ideas like convex and concave spaces and double articulation regarding the spaces of the Tugendhat house.
The final task was to translate all these ideas and concept into one final drawing which represent these qualities into meaningful observation.

 

 

RESULt + LEARNINg

“As a place “the house” is heterogeneous, albeit, its heterogeneity becomes a totality in relation to the homogeneous space defined by the columnar system. In this sense, shiny chromium columns with the cruciform section which defines the direction of an orthogonal grid, manifest a continuous and homogeneous space.”
Description of “Schultz” about the house is crystallized the autonomy of each space while a paradoxical sense could be understandable. Thus, for me, it resembles the act of loving where always a hidden denial make it mysterious and joyful at the same time. Also, here people need to discover new territory inside the arena of sensible which totally similar to the inside and outside places of the curved wall.