The Eames HouseCase Study House #8

Vannessa DiazModule 4 Digital MediaProfessor: Darci Pappano

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION The EamesAbout The Structure Location The Programming MaterialsTHE DESIGN Plans and Sections

THE EAMESCharles and Ray Eames, born in 1907 and 1912 respectively, worked together as architects to create The Eames House. They had built this home around the ideas of playfulness and having public areas being visible to the outside. This particular structure was part of the case study Program which included homes meant to be affordable after the war and eventually became home to the designers themselves. They brought modernism to the world through not only structures, but through toys, films, books, etc.

The home is located onto a hillside in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles Spaning about 1.4 arces. Due to the war industries the Eames went in search of the good life within nature. During the process of design-ing they are always thinking of how else to improve the structure to make it unselfconscious. To meet theirs and their guest’s needs all the while using straight forward connections towards nature.

LOCATION

The house is made of two glass and steel rectangular prisms that provide two different services, one being for residential life and the other for work all the while including double heighted space at certain parts throughout the structure. The structure is backed by a 200 ft long retaining wall, and includes a court on the ocean side of the house, a court between the structures and a parking lot. Public and private spaces defined by the areas you can and cannot see respectively. The panels used to cover private areas are made from different materials and colors.

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This structure’s cost was 1 dollar perfoot during th time of its construction. The material were prefabricated and used in a simple cobnstruction to lower the overallcost. Some ways they were used includes a retaining wall, the steel frame and other technological advancements developed during world war II. Vegetation planted in ways to connect the structure to nature, while also providing shading throughout the day. Which of course is an addition to the window arrangement which also emphasizes the shifting of light.

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INFORMATION PROVIDED BY:http://eamesfoundation.org

http://www.archdaily.com/66302/ad-classics-eames-house-charles-and-ray-eames

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