VitraHaus
Herzog & de Meuron
The famous Vitra Haus has been designed in
2006 by the architects Herzog & de
Meuron. The construction of this building answers the need of space expressed
by Vitra. The space was needed to expose a new furniture collection.
The house
furniture collection of Vitra was the first one directed to particular clients.
The idea of a show room for houses is what inspired the pitched roof shape of
the structure.
The building whose clabs intersect the
underling gables creates a three dimensional assemblage. The composition of
houses makes believe at an almost random disposition at first.
The composition is made out of twelve
different houses creating a five level building. The different houses have been
following the general shape of the houses of the region.
The house are stacked one on top other
and have up to five meters cantilevers. Those long cantilevers give the
impression that they stand by balancing.
The idea was to go away from a
longitudinal building and try to have the minimum footprint. The circulation of
the building is made so that the visitor will arrive and exit on the same
place.
The building joins on the Vitra campus
building created by Frank Gehry or Tadao Ando.
The exterior charcoal color contrasts
with the inside perfect white. The continuous white has been chosen to put the
furniture in value.
The building transforms itself at night
when the landscape surrounding disappears and the building interior spaces
seams like floating houses.
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