SCHRODER HOUSE- final

Question 1

ARTIST

Answer 1

Rietveld

Question 2

DATE

Answer 2

1924

Question 3

building structure material

Answer 3

STEEL FRAME

LOAD BEARING BRICK AND CONCRETE

Question 4

HOW IS THIS AN EXCPLICIT ARCHITECTURAL VERSIPON OF DE STIJIL

Answer 4

use of primary colours on the plain, painted surfaces, rectangular shapes and projecting horizon-tal shapes.

Question 5

PATRON

Answer 5

young widow Truus Schröder-Schrader

Had significant imput on design (BASICALLY A CO-ARCHITECT)

Question 6

what did patron want

Answer 6

-DELXIBLE ROOMS TO BE CLOSE TO HER CHILDREN

-WANTED TO LIVE WITHOUT WALLS AND HAVE A STRONG OUTSIDE- INSIDE CONNECTION

Question 7

Exterior key features

Answer 7

-Connected to apartment block

-little distinction between intyerior and exterior

-rectilinear lines and planes, allows flowimg transition areas

-VOIDS and VOLUMES of space created by the planes

-asymmetrical

-GREY and WHITE walls surfaces, planws articulated by thin window mullions and railings (coloured black, blue, red and yellow)

Question 8

kEY INTERIOR FEATURES

Answer 8

-continuity from exterior

Downstairs 2 bedrooms, studio, kitchen/living

-Upstairs working/sleeping, balconies, living room = entirely removed creating a free and open plan.

-flowing space, Sliding partition walls on the upper floor

-attention is given to small touches - ledges, stairs, shelves, window ledges and mullions. This attention to detail recalls Rietveld’s training as a cabinet maker

-The Schröder house is therefore a ‘total work of art’ where sculpture, architecture and practical applied arts are fused together in harmo-ny.

Question 9

effect of transitional areas

Answer 9

smooth transitional areas between the exterior and interior

Used sp0ace dividing elements and transitional elements like balconies

-5 transitional areas in the house

EXAMPLE OF 1 TRANSITIONAL AREA:

patio on the ground floor leading into the servant bedroom. It is covered by a balcony extruding from the living/dining room and Truus Schröder’s bedroom above on the second floor.

Question 10

materials

Answer 10

affordable and standard materials: concrete, glass, steel, brick wood and cork

concrete and its production too costly for such a small building

FLOORS made of wood

SLIDING PARTITION WALLS- layered cork

Question 11

WHAT DID RIETVELD MAKE FOR THE HOUSE

Answer 11

-made furniture for house (link to applied arts)

Question 12

INFLUENCE OF DI STIJIL

Answer 12

influence of mondrains framed grid paintings

style based on strict geometry of horizontals and vercles

reflected in….
- horizontals and verticals
-Geometric
-use of blcok colour

Question 13

16 POINTS OF PLASTIC ARCHITECTURE

Answer 13

treatise ‘16 points of Plastic Architecture’, published the year the Schröder house was completed. In many ways the Schröder house can be seen as the expression in architecture of these principles

ANTI- CUBIC

Question 14

Bauhaus

Answer 14

CHARACTERISTIC EVIDENT IN SCHRODER HOUSE:

Form follows function

lack of space definers, removal of heavy load bearing walls

Question 15

Utopian ideal of what architecture for the modern age should be

Answer 15

LINKS DE STIJIL AND BAHUAS

▪Form should follow function

-rejection of applied ornament

-after ww1 idia that human condition could be healed by new principles of art and architecture (rationality)

-TECHNOLOGY to archieve social improvement AND IMPROVE DAILY IFE