Modern Rustic Korean House And Art Gallery | Daeyang Gallery | Seoul | Korea | Steven Holl Architects

The private gallery and house is sited in the hills of the Kangbuk section of Seoul, Korea. The project was designed as an experiment parallel to a research studio on "the architectonics of music." The basic geometry of the building is inspired by a 1967 sketch for a music score by the composer Istvan Anhalt, "Symphony of Modules," discovered in a book by John Cage titled "Notations."

Three pavilions; one for entry, one residence, and one event space, appear to push upward from a continuous gallery level below. A sheet of water establishes the plane of reference from above and below.

The idea of space as silent until activated by light is realized in the cutting of 55 skylight strips in the roofs of the three pavilions. In each of the pavilions, 5 strips of clear glass allow the sunlight to turn and bend around the inner spaces, animating them according to the time of day and season. Proportions are organized around the series 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55.

Views from within the pavilions are framed by the reflecting pool, which is bracketed by gardens that run perpendicular to the skylight strips. In the base of the reflecting pool, strips of glass lenses bring dappled light to the white plaster walls and white granite floor of the gallery below......more

TURBULENCE HOUSE New Mexico, United States | Steven Holl Architects

TURBULENCE HOUSE
New Mexico, United States, 2001-2005

PROGRAM: guest house
CLIENT: Richard Tuttle / Mei Mei Berssenbrugge
SIZE: 900
STATUS: completed

Adjacent to adobe houses built by the artist Richard Tuttle, this small construction sits atop a windy desert mesa. It is imagined like the tip of an iceberg indicating a much larger mass below. The form allows turbulent wind to blow through its center. The stressed skin and aluminum rib construction is digitally prefabricated in Kansas City then bolted together on site. A total of 31 metal panels, each with a unique shape are fabricated to form the "shell" of the house. The second Turbulence House, made for an exhibition in Vicenza, Italy, is in a private sculpture park in Italy. The metal fabricator utilizes digital definition combined with craftsmanship to produce intricate shapes. By means of parametric logic, materials can be converted into engineered assemblies with an accuracy once considered impossible.
CREDITS

architect
Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl (design architect)
Anderson Lee, Richard Tobias (project architect)
Arnault Biou, Matt Johnson (project team)

local architect
Kramer Woodard Architects

structural engineer
Delapp Engineering

metal panel fabricator
A. Zahner Company

Lakeside House | Sun Slice House,Lake Garda, Italy | Steven Holl Architects

SUN SLICE HOUSE
Lake Garda, Italy, 2006

PROGRAM: private residence
CLIENT: withheld
SIZE: 3,800 sf

This weekend house on Lake Garda for an Italian lighting company owner and his family is organized to frame slices of sunlight. While the owner's profession revolves around artificial light, slices of natural light and their change in space throughout the day and year is the focus of the house. While most elevations are simple rectangles strategically sliced and cut for the play of light within, the north façade is made of glass with views of Lake Garda. In order to emphasize the bends and changes in the strips of sunlight, simple cubic volumes form the basic building geometry. These are loosely joined in topological sheet rubber-like geometry, which also inscribes wind-protected courts on both sides of the house. Changes of season and weather allow different courtyard opportunities.
The steel frame and concrete structure is skinned with an alloy of copper, steel, chromium, and nickel, which weathers to a leathery red color. Interiors are white plaster with terrazzo floors on the ground level while bamboo floors cover the second. Natural ventilation and geothermal heating and cooling are part of the energy plan.

CREDITS

architect
– Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl (design architect)
Alessandro Orsini (project architect)
Francesco Bartolozzi (project team)

local architect
– Luca Pellegrinelli
Luca Pellegrinelli

structural engineer
– Gianni Pellegrinelli
Gianni Pellegrinelli

Desert House | Steven Holl Architects | Planar House, Arizona USA

PLANAR HOUSE
Arizona, United States, 2002-2005

PROGRAM: private residence
CLIENT: withheld
SIZE: 3,320 sf
STATUS: completed

This house is to be a part of, and vessel for, a large contemporary art collection. Great 20th century works by Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Jeff Koons and Jannis Kounellis are part of the collection which includes important video artworks. Constructed of tilt-up concrete walls, the flat and rotated nature of the walls merges with the simple orthogonal requirements of the interiors for art. Shape extensions and light and air chimneys connected to cooling pools articulate the planar geometry. From a courtyard experienced at the entry of sequence, a ramp leads to a rooftop sculpture garden - a place of silence and reflection.

CREDITS

Architect
– Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl (design architect)
Martin Cox (project architect)
Tim Bade (schematic design)
Robert Edmonds, Annette Goderbauer, Hideki Hirahara, Clark Manning (project team)
Structural Engineer
– Rudow & Berry
Mechanical Engineer
– Roy Otterbein
Roy Otterbein
Civil Engineer
– Fleet Fisher Engineering
Electrical Engineer
– Associated Engineering
Landscape Architect
– Steve Martino & Associates