Richar Meier Curved Roof House

These work areas offer varying degrees of privacy in response to slightly different programmatic needs.

Richar meier curved roof house.

So steep is the fall of the land from the road down to the water that the house appears to have been notched into the site a machined object perched in a natural world. The smith house by architect richard meier was built in darien connecticut united states in 1965 1967. An internal courtyard connected to the living room a tennis court and a granite terrace. The overall form of the house is a large rectangle set on end.

Richard meier douglas house usa michigan. Sunlit courts and a play between verticl and horizontal spaces. Perched on the foothills of the coastal mountains that form the santa ynez valley this house recognizes the language of local building typologies updated with a modern site specific approach. Modern structure with a flat roof clad with redwood.

It mediates the extremes between the pacific ocean and the mountains along the coastal highway bby maximizing the sea view and minimizing the highway noise. The overall composition is subtly inflected by a curved roof plane and a bowed curtain wall to the north in order to unify blocks of discrete workspaces on each floor. Meier house richard meier partners architects. The house is built of redwood vertical tongue and groove boards and is.

This house a first commission in private practice stands on a one acre suburban lot in a typical residential neighborhood of pseudo colonial houses. In 1965 richard meier completed the meier house for his parents nestled in a natural setting in essex fells with references to mies and frank lloyd wright. In all his work he refuses to bend to the trends of modern architecture. L shaped in plan the house looks out over three adjacent courts.

By referring to the indigenous courtyard types of southern california their sunlit courts and play between vertical and horizontal spaces the ackerberg house mediates the contextual extremes of the mountains along the coastal highway and the pacific ocean. Richard meier ackerberg house malibú beach 1984 the ackberg house design is based on the indigenous courtyard types of california. The owners wanted a one story house. Douglas house richard meier partners architects the douglas house is dramatically situated on an isolated site that slopes down to lake michigan.

Ackerberg house richard meier partners architects. Santa ynez house richard meier partners architects. The site is accessed by a private 1 kilometer drive through a small arroyo that gradually winds uphill.