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Lecture 5 discusses the concepts of home, place, and architecture, emphasizing the emotional and spatial qualities that define a home. It explores how architecture can express and enhance the experience of home through familiar materials, welcoming designs, and the relationship between inside and outside spaces. The lecture also references various architectural works and theorists to illustrate the importance of home as a reflection of personal identity and human experience.

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Lecture 5 - HOME

Lecture 5 discusses the concepts of home, place, and architecture, emphasizing the emotional and spatial qualities that define a home. It explores how architecture can express and enhance the experience of home through familiar materials, welcoming designs, and the relationship between inside and outside spaces. The lecture also references various architectural works and theorists to illustrate the importance of home as a reflection of personal identity and human experience.

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Design Theory: Lecture 5

B. Arch Level Two 2024


Department of Architecture
University of Moratuwa.
09/08/2024
LECTURE FIVE

Home, place, Architecture


Place, Home and Architecture (House)

• What is a home?
• Spatial qualities of a home.
• Architecture for define and express the spatial qualities
• Aesthetics of home/ house.
• Home and house.
What is a place? place is defined by architectural/ natural elements, to experience within the
human levels and human senses: Experiencing here in relation to there.
What is a space? Space is not defined, unlimited.

Place is defined by natural elements Place is defined by built elements


Share your ideas:

What is a home?
 How does it become a place of our own?
 your experiences/ feelings/ childhood
memories of the home
What is a home?

• Home is the most attached place, among the rest of other places around the world – Hideout

• Close to one’s soul, close attachment

• All our childhood memories are attached with our homes

• We learn about the rest of the world in relation to our homes

• It is our first place, that we have been learning the world through it.

• Home is a mini cosmos – mini world


Spatial qualities of a home
Spatial qualities of a home

• Hideout – to lie down.


• Feel free and relax
• Closeness with the self – intimacy
• Warmth, affection, motherly quality
• Place to dream; trigger imagination, creativity, to find one’s soul.
• Central pillar, to support your self against the outside chaos.
• Experience of the inside in relation to the outside.

• Sense of attachment with the home emphasise ‘sense of place’,


which is ‘dwelling’ (Heidegger).
• When someone feel these qualities in their houses, only that house
would be a home, a dwelling (Heidegger).
Poetic of Space, Gaston Bachelard –
Spatial experience of the house through poetry.

‘At the door of the house who will come knocking?


An open door, we enter
A closed door, a den
The world pulse beats Beyond my door’

“I dream of a house, a low house with high


Windows, three worn steps, smooth and green
A poor secret house, as in an old print,
That only lives in me, where sometimes I return
To sit down and forget the gray day and the rain”
How architecture (HOUSE) express/ define the home
How architecture (HOUSE) express/ define the home

• Image – welcome, embracing character


• Scale – close to the body scale
• Familiar places, materials, textures, colours – earthly character
• Freedom of relax, lie down, relax spaces.
• Human quality, touch – crafting techniques; rather than machine made.
• Define inside/ outside relationship.
• More close attachment with the house

Physical and Visible side of the HOME is HOUSE


Architectural determinants of the House to experience as a Home

Image – how do you recognize the house from outside

Entrance – how would you enter , experiencing the homely character, welcoming.

Inside – how people experience the inside of the house, its familiar qualities

Inside/outside relationship – how people experience outside in relation to the inside of the house.
These are primary human needs (psychological, ontological, anthropological).

All these determine the aesthetics and beauty of the house.

All others are secondary factors……

House is to explore thyself ; not to exhibit …….

House/ home could be described as the main element of architecture.


Review these based on the ideas discussed above

Image of an African house

Inside of a igloo house


The Villa Savoye in Poissy by Le Corbusier (1928-31)
The Robie House Falling Water
by Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago (1909
House design –
Thisara Thanapathy

House – Palinda Kannangara

Holiday hideout – Thisara Thanapathy


Concept of Home – What’s wrong in Farnsworth house, although it marks a statement in
Architectural History

"I thought you could animate a predetermined, classic


form like this with your own presence. I wanted to do
something 'meaningful,' and all I got was this glib, false
sophistication," Dr. Farnsworth complained.

Mies van der Rohe was baffled by her complaints. Surely


the doctor did not think that this house was designed for
family living! Rather, the Farnsworth House was meant to
be the pure expression of an idea. By reducing architecture
to "almost nothing," Mies had created the ultimate in
objectivity and universality. The sheer, smooth,
unornamented Farnsworth House embodied the highest
ideals of the new, Utopian International Style.
Farnsworth House, Illinois
1945 - 1951
As long as there are human beings and their challenges, there will be architecture: Ole Bouman

Authentic architecture is always about life; man's existential experience is the prime subject
matter of the art of building. (Pallasmaa)

Home is an expression of personality and family and their very unique patterns of life.
(Pallasmaa)
REFERENCES

•House, Form and Culture – Amos Rapoport


• Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard
• Dwellings: the house across the world – Paul Oliver
• Shelter, sign and symbol – Paul Oliver
• Shelter and society – Paul Oliver
• The psychology of place – David Canter
• House as a mirror of self – Marcus, Clare Cooper
• Identity, intimacy and domicile: Notes on the phenomenology
of home – Juhani Pallasmaa
THANK YOU

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