Rem’s Fundamental Thinking

Rem Koolhaas…..how does a building go together?

‘Well, it has numerous parts to it’….and these parts have changed over time.

Bringing the methods of design and construction down to its simplest forms in terms that people with no Architectural or building knowledge can understand.

It is a massive exhibition, exhaustive and details, but simple.

My favourite rooms, ‘Door’ and ‘Ceiling’ and ‘Window’.  The chronology of how each of these elements has been used in building and has evolved…

ie:

A door has always been a threshold and a barrier, a means of security.  Once it was a portcullis, then an opening in a forts walls, now this threshold is a metal detector at the airport.

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Fundamentals Pavilion - 2014 Venice Biennale

Approaching the Fundamentals of Architecture

 

Fundamentals Pavilion - 2014 Venice Biennale

Above the ceiling?

Fundamentals Pavilion - 2014 Venice Biennale

The floor provides direction

 

Window manufacturing sure has changed

Window manufacturing sure has changed

A history lesson

A history lesson

 

Humans always provide direction...

Humans always provide direction…

...to another corridor!

…to another corridor!

 

Multiple facades to keep the rain off.

Multiple facades to keep the rain off.

Layers!

Layers!

The door as a method of security

The door as a method of security

Fundamentals Pavilion - 2014 Venice Biennale

Representing Architecture!

Fundamentals Pavilion - 2014 Venice Biennale

Corb’s Maison Dom Ino as a scale model. Modernity as scale?