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Open your mind, your heart to other cultures
Abra su mente, su corazón a otras culturas
You will be a better person
Usted será una mejor persona
RM
Abra su mente, su corazón a otras culturas
You will be a better person
Usted será una mejor persona
RM
The Douglas House is dramatically situated on an isolated site that slopes down to Lake Michigan. So steep is the fall of the land from the road down to the water that the house appears to have been notched into the site, a machined object perched in a natural world. The entry to the house extends beyond the building envelope. Here, as the sharp downhill grade of the land requires the house to be entered at roof level, it takes the form of a flying bridge that seems to shear off the top of the frontal plane.
The east side, facing the road, is the private zone, protected by a taut white membrane pierced by square apertures and horizontal strip windows. The unimpeded flow of space between this wall and the hillside is accentuated by the roof-level bridge, and experienced as an activated void that further seals the private zone from the road.
Once inside the entry vestibule, the view opens to the West, down to both the living and dining levels, and out to a large roof deck overlooking Lake Michigan. As in the Smith and Hoffman houses, the living-room fireplace is located directly opposite the entry, but in this case it is two stories below. At roof level, its stainless-steel smokestacks act as a foil to the entry and frame the view.
Horizontal circulation moves along four open corridors, stacked one above the other behind a screen wall. Internal and external staircases provide vertical passage at the corners.
A skylight running nearly the full length of the roof-deck focuses sunlight into the living room, reinforcing the separation between the public and private sectors of the house.
The living room virtually hovers in the landsape within three glass walls. The fireplace anchors the room, binding the floor to the lake's horizon as if the water itself were cantilevered from the bricks. The house's levels can be traced in the mullions of the glazing. The dramatic horizontals of the lake's surface, the horizon, and the shoreline elide into these articulations. Vertical mullions fan out from the corners, carrying with them the lines of the great trees alongside the house. The unimpeded flow of space from inside to out, so powerfully inscribed in the Smith House, is rendered more profound.
http://www.richardmeier.com/current/PROJECTS/Douglas.html
The east side, facing the road, is the private zone, protected by a taut white membrane pierced by square apertures and horizontal strip windows. The unimpeded flow of space between this wall and the hillside is accentuated by the roof-level bridge, and experienced as an activated void that further seals the private zone from the road.
Once inside the entry vestibule, the view opens to the West, down to both the living and dining levels, and out to a large roof deck overlooking Lake Michigan. As in the Smith and Hoffman houses, the living-room fireplace is located directly opposite the entry, but in this case it is two stories below. At roof level, its stainless-steel smokestacks act as a foil to the entry and frame the view.
Horizontal circulation moves along four open corridors, stacked one above the other behind a screen wall. Internal and external staircases provide vertical passage at the corners.
A skylight running nearly the full length of the roof-deck focuses sunlight into the living room, reinforcing the separation between the public and private sectors of the house.
The living room virtually hovers in the landsape within three glass walls. The fireplace anchors the room, binding the floor to the lake's horizon as if the water itself were cantilevered from the bricks. The house's levels can be traced in the mullions of the glazing. The dramatic horizontals of the lake's surface, the horizon, and the shoreline elide into these articulations. Vertical mullions fan out from the corners, carrying with them the lines of the great trees alongside the house. The unimpeded flow of space from inside to out, so powerfully inscribed in the Smith House, is rendered more profound.
http://www.richardmeier.com/current/PROJECTS/Douglas.html
Richard Meier
Douglas House
Entry bridge - Entrada en puente
Richard Meier
Douglas House
Exit - Salida - Terraces - Terrazas
Richard Meier
Douglas House
Exit - Salida - Terraces - Terrazas
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Douglas House
Interior
Steel frame
Marco de acero
Richard Meier
Douglas House
View from the house
Vista desde la casa
Richard Meier
Douglas House
Interior
Richard Meier
Douglas House
Interior
Bibliography
Davis, Douglas, and Mary Rourke. "Architecture: Real Dream Houses." Newsweek, 4 October 1976, pp. 66-69 (passim).
Futagawa, Yukio, ed. "Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan. 1974." Text by Paul Goldberger. Global Architecture 34, 1975. Reprinted in Global Architecture Book 3: Modern Houses. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita Co., 1981, n.p.
Goldberger, Paul. "Architecture: Richard Meier." Architectural Digest, December 1988, pp. 186-191.
Goldberger, Paul. "Purism on the Lake." The New York Times Magazine, 22 September 1974, pp. 72-74.
"House in Harbor Springs." A + U, November 1972, pp. 27-30.
Hoyt, Charles, "Richard Meier: Public Space and Private Space." Architectural Record, July 1973, pp. 89-98.
"L'Ultima Villa from The U.S.A." Domus, January 1975, pp. 19-22.Morton, David. "Douglas House." Progressive Architecture, July 1975, pp. 58-61.
Raggi, France. "Templi e roulottes." Casabella, October 1974."Record Houses of 1977." Architectural Record, May 1977, pp. 68-71.
Richard Meier Architect 1. Rizzoli International Publications, 1984, pp. 70-81.
Richard Meier Houses. Includes "The Dance of Composition." by Paul Goldberger; "Richard Meier's Ideal Villas." by Sir Richard Rogers. New York: Rizzoli, 1996. Reprinted in Italian. Milan: RCS Libri e Grandi Opere S.p.A., 1996. Reprinted in London: Thames and Hudson, 1996."Vorsicht Glashaus." Hauser 3, 1980, pp. 71-75.
"Wohnhaus am Michigan-See, U.S.A." Baumeister, July 1977, pp. 617-619.
Davis, Douglas, and Mary Rourke. "Architecture: Real Dream Houses." Newsweek, 4 October 1976, pp. 66-69 (passim).
Futagawa, Yukio, ed. "Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan. 1974." Text by Paul Goldberger. Global Architecture 34, 1975. Reprinted in Global Architecture Book 3: Modern Houses. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita Co., 1981, n.p.
Goldberger, Paul. "Architecture: Richard Meier." Architectural Digest, December 1988, pp. 186-191.
Goldberger, Paul. "Purism on the Lake." The New York Times Magazine, 22 September 1974, pp. 72-74.
"House in Harbor Springs." A + U, November 1972, pp. 27-30.
Hoyt, Charles, "Richard Meier: Public Space and Private Space." Architectural Record, July 1973, pp. 89-98.
"L'Ultima Villa from The U.S.A." Domus, January 1975, pp. 19-22.Morton, David. "Douglas House." Progressive Architecture, July 1975, pp. 58-61.
Raggi, France. "Templi e roulottes." Casabella, October 1974."Record Houses of 1977." Architectural Record, May 1977, pp. 68-71.
Richard Meier Architect 1. Rizzoli International Publications, 1984, pp. 70-81.
Richard Meier Houses. Includes "The Dance of Composition." by Paul Goldberger; "Richard Meier's Ideal Villas." by Sir Richard Rogers. New York: Rizzoli, 1996. Reprinted in Italian. Milan: RCS Libri e Grandi Opere S.p.A., 1996. Reprinted in London: Thames and Hudson, 1996."Vorsicht Glashaus." Hauser 3, 1980, pp. 71-75.
"Wohnhaus am Michigan-See, U.S.A." Baumeister, July 1977, pp. 617-619.
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