Exercise 1a

https://youtu.be/Bp55Wz7A_mg


My video is based on these three houses:

Blas House in Sevilla la Nueva (Madrid), by Alberto Campo Baeza

House in Lège, by Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal

Can Lis, by Jørn Utzon

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.” 
― Louis I. Kahn

In my perspective, architecture is not about the architect – it is about the building, the user of it and the lifestyle of the user.

“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.” 
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

In my video I want to show that sometimes you do not even need to see the building to get the feeling of the lifestyle. The doorstep and the view through your window – you can read a lot from it. Door and the view could tell you a lot about the way of living – the neighborhood, location, people’s personal style and basically the kind of lives they live. Architecture fills in the gap between the door and the view and architects job is to fill in the gap to suit the lives of the users best.

“The door handle is the handshake of the building.” 
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

Therefore, my video will show a bunch of the entrance to the building and the view through the windows. The doors represent individuality and the view is the essence.

Music – based on the song ‘Kings and queens’ by 30 seconds to mars.