Seasonal touch: clay and concrete combine to make a house for all seasons.Sixty-three Adj. 1. sixty-three - being three more than sixty 63, lxiii cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" year old Mrs Seifert commissioned this radical house after her nineteenth-century home burnt down. Unlike the former property, her new home allows her to experience the changing seasons. Balancing privacy and openness was therefore the architect's principal challenge in a design process that investigated the relationship between spatial determinism and freedom of use. Analysing Rietveld's flexible arrangement and Mies's static space, which opened up more opportunities of use? In the end the latter was the strategy of choice, producing a plan that sets two solid cores within a crystalline Like a crystal. It implies a uniform structure of molecules in all dimensions. For example, phase change technology, widely used for rewritable optical discs, uses crystalline spots (bits) to reflect the laser beam. Amorphous, non-crystalline bits do not reflect light. glass envelope. The concrete cores--materially consistent with the soffit--contain all the necessary cellular spaces, with living and sleeping areas being arranged around the glazed glaze n. 1. A thin smooth shiny coating. 2. A thin glassy coating of ice. 3. a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. b. perimeter The boundary of a system or network, which defines the inside and outside. It is typically determined by firewalls and addresses. See DMZ. . A concrete wall that defines the entrance court serves to conceal conceal, v to hide; secrete; withhold from the knowledge of others. the garden from view until visitors have entered the house. The house was built in under seven months, and has been happily occupied since the beginning of 2006. R.G. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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