ANISH KAPOOR HOUSE, BAHAMAS, ELEUTHERA ISLAND
Located on top of the hill, perpendicular to the slope and cantilevers out on both sides, OMA proposed 2 different strategies for a summerhouse. Both designs are very rigid, yet the appearance of the house is very modest. It is barely visible from the road but has maximum views towards the sea. OMA
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Personally i like the stacked design, with the smaller surrounding cottages better...
the top one looks more swiss...
oh, and seriously for a firm that size, how hard is it to find someone who knows how to take photographs? or is it always their intent to have out of focus model shots?!?
They just don't [need to] care about that end of detail anymore.
Neither of these are particularly interesting, are they? Maybe too early, but both seem pretty bland and unimaginitive.
i'm a sucker for bars.
I am too, but it's always tough to get a bar layout that's not awkward. This floor plan sucks! So much wasted space and awkward dimensions. Maybe these are just early schematic.
yeah, i'm sure.
i would have loaded everything on one side, and just have one corridor, rather than having one on either side.
, ie, take away the columns
i don't think there is a corridor - I think they intend it
to be open and the boxes (spaces) form the enclosure under/over the two slabs - pretty interesting to me - could be misreading it though
rem's been reading klotz
Wes Jones has been doing MUCH more interesting variations on the bar scheme using their "PRO/dek" system of sliding/collapsing/unfolding program components. Imagine folding up your bedroom and unfolding your kitchen when it's time to get up and make breakfast. Check out their latest monograph. Pretty cool stuff.
P.S. I don't work for them.
the project date says 2006...are there not more interesting images than photos of a blue foam model in TWO YEARS?!
Israel- You meant 10 years? They
oh REM your sucha Mies lover... thats (again) another barcelonian pavilion!
i like it... at least he doesnt pretend too much for as simple as a summer house should be... what u guys wanted?? a ghery?? a blob??
think about it if you came up with this scheme in school you would probably get a C
ONCE AGAIN, who says clients think or live like a teacher architect???
U N L E A R N !
_John Singelton
"Master, I don't understand."
"That is why you fail."
YODA
These designs fail more than "architecture." They fail the client. Anish Kapoor is one of the more important three dimensional artists of our time. The phenomenology of his work is so strong, and the architectural response to his needs is so bland. I hope he didn't suppress his yawn looking at these schemes.
And yeah, it's Mies. But even worse, did you get a close look at the stairs in that model? Did these guys even learn how to hold xacto knives? No wonder the photos are out-of-focus. Were I he, I'd fire OMA and go find someone with some creative expression and some craftsmanship.
this is a nostaligic program and an extremely nostaligic design. how did this horizontal pancake of space become the boutique default move? especially with Kapoor´s more complex understandings of material organization. it´s confusing why didn´t he hire a materialist instead of a "style" office. . .
Looks very cold and very boring (even for a concept-model).
Every thing in such a house will be out of place.
Absolute lack of the artistical perfomance.
No innovations.
Looks like a model with the main parts lost.
People hardly can bear 2 days living there. `Cos people need something .. more. I hope...
after recent more shapey (but rational, etc.) projects one suspected that the riffing-on-Miesishness was over. One was wrong.
is it going to be equipped with geothermal system and metallic oxide applied to the outer layer of glasses? miesian summer house in a tropical island sounds as though it asks for tropological interpretations of the doctrine of modernism. the project does remind of me of prof. michael bell's only built project on which there is an article in metropolis' january issue, although without a courtyard nor for that matter wings, which carries the attention to the second scheme with all the considerations of courtyard and shading for the climate. i guess i am interested in how the details will be worked out in either scheme, but more so if the bar scheme is selected.
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