Paulo Méndes da Rocha's Home: LANGUAGE

1.- THE MODERN LANGUAGE

It is closely related to the pictorial vanguards. It begins to raise its own reality. Authors such as Picasso, which pose new roads, new possibilities. Impressions of reality (Impressionism) cubism, pointillism, appear Neoplasticism is represented. An essential element that characterizes the art sought, and your answer will be the level where upon it, it represents things. The flat as a compositional element.

Mendes da Rocha makes its language from raw materials (), looking for that spectacular and sensual effects more internalized. The inverted trapezoid Contemporary Arts Museum of Sao Paulo (1975) and moved Bauhaus building facade of Sao Paulo (1984) seem to contradict this aesthetic, however confirmed by discrete titrations Jaraguà residential buildings (1984) and Aspen (1986), the design studio Form (1988) and residence Gerassi (1990). His designs are based on straight lines and the use of concrete level.

2.BASES OF MODERN LANGUAGE:

1.-Neoplasticism (De Sijl): It is an attempt to return to the purity and nobility of architecture.

The language happens to be an absolute value to a mere communication tool.

Architects design based on the classic architectural style buildings, but was restrained in decoration.

Are based on pure volume: cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.

2.-Wright and the box rupture.

3.-Systematization of language:

-Free plant: The ground floor of the house is an open space where there is an entrance to the first floor.
-Pilotis

-The house is suspended on four pillars, leaving the ground floor.
-Window run

3.-SPACES:

- Private/public spaces:

Butantã house rises on the site of a small hill looking light and a relationship with the trees and the city. The ground floor is free and the home of this mode is suspended. The interior wall of housing does not reach the ceiling, creating a fluid space that favours the ventilation inside. In this way it does not favour the separation between public and private space.

The ideal architecture Mendes da Rocha is the creation of public spaces as far as possible the extension of public space. Generate architecture that does not privatize the space and instead extend the public. If the work is private and cannot generate public spaces remain, Mendes da Rocha extends the space with the view; it generates no boundaries or a wall as there is an intention that no limits have been marked.

"All space is attributable to a value to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space you can imagine is the human mind. If you are a poet, the first idea you have of a poem is to publish"

The idea of social architecture that seeks to generate public spaces is supported by the fact the privatization of architecture and city of Brazil. The project tries to make the public house as possible, leaving open spaces on the ground floor and the first floor. While the private part is closed and all is bounded by walls that frame the spaces.

This framing of space is perceived as a control space, understood as a control to the private sector.

The ideal of Mendes da Rocha of making architecture which will foster public character is reflected in the Butantã home.

-Area served/server:

-Access:

4.- House Butantã VS. Ville Savoye

-Elevations: The elevations of both houses have their similarity in piles that are responsible for sustaining the houses and structures in the rectangular shape of the upper floors.