| Entrance Hall |
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| The entrance hall shows to the left
the wardrobe, next to the entrance door. To the right we see the niche
with wash basin and toilet door. On either side to the wash basin are
mirrors, which give the impression of the niche to extend beyond the wall.
We can look however through the window in front of the basin into the
carport and beyond into the street. What adds to the illusion of depth is
the doorframe of the living room connecting the hall with side windows the
width of the mirrors. This creates an ambiguous sense of space
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Photo: Sri Jugiarti Notohadinegoro |
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| Looking up from the entrance door one looks into the
nook of the house. The walls reaching for the nook separate the 2 sides of
the house only connected with a bridge. A stairway leads up to the bridge. |
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The
Structural Language of the House
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We have shown on this pages two main sight lines both viewing
East through openings or doors (, that may interrupt the view and only
allow it when open) and end with the walls of the West elevation. These
lines thread the spaces along it like a sentence connects words, or
letters making words. The South line divides the side spaces of the house
(2.60 m wide). This axis runs through its center and follows a modular
line going East-West. The axis through the washbasin is located between
the main modular lines that are 1.30 m apart. In the East elevation this
corresponds with the opening between the columns set on the modular lines
1.30 cm from axis to axis. In-between the columns are 86 cm, the columns
being half, 43 cm wide. This sets the rhythm of the patterns around the
house. |
East elevation with 3 openings of the carport. The storage space
forms a separate volume, like a little house as part of the main-house. |
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Upstairs |
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The door of the up-stairs toilet has a window with milk white glass
and is repeated in the niche with the doors going into the bedrooms. |
Niche with doors going into toilet (left), bathroom (back, open) and
master-bedroom (right, door open). Far right we see the stair come up. |
This niche shows the doors into the
bedrooms open (!). The bridge comes out from the wall that reaches into
the nook of the house. |
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hall connects the two bedroom sections of the top-floor. The niches as
extensions of the bridge are a structural repeat of the downstairs
openings. The openings are cut out into the structural walls on both sides
of the hall that reach into the nook of the house from the ground floor.
The stairs are made of 2 halves with a platform in-between. The
bathroom has a door into the hall and into the master-bedroom. Above the
bathroom and niches are attic/storage spaces, which creates low ceilings
in the niches and entrances spaces of the 3 bedrooms. The ceiling of the
master-bedroom reaches towards the nook. |
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