Bordeaux House
Undergrad Studio Project (2015)
Architectural Analysis is the 1st-semester 2nd-year course in the Department of Architecture at RISD. The prompt has been the same for decades. You'll be assigned a famous building and your assignment is to draw and model the building every week until you figure out how it works.
My building is OMA's the Bordeaux House in Bordeaux, France. An early residential project by the star architect Rem Kool Haus. For my final drawing series of the semester, I focused my attention on the placement of window portals that were placed all over the building envelope. The following is analysis drawings I completed to map the windows, their views, and what the architect had in mind with this project.
After modeling all 50+ windows and their site lines onto the surrounding landscape, I thought it might be interesting to include a drawing series of what the building my look like from the reversed point of view... looking inwards.
I used a black box, film, pinhole cameras, and light-sensitive paper to capture the building as an image then used these views to build a model of these frames as they collided. A house obsessed with optics then turned to an optical illusion.
