Title page for ETD etd-120799-102257

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

Kruhm, Kathryn Elizabeth

Author's Email Address

kruhmy@yahoo.com

URN

etd-120799-102257

Title

Four Houses A Language of Transition from Earth to Sky

Degree

Master of Architecture

Department

Architecture

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Hunt, Gregory Keane	Committee Chair
Holt, Jaan	Committee Member
Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.	Committee Member

Keywords

enclosure wall
light
stone wall
courtyard
room
balcony
stairs
hearth

Date of Defense

1995-09-01

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

The thesis of this project is to develop a language of architecture for the design of a rural house.

Parameters for this language are specified through program, ideas about living in a country home, and the importance of integrating the building with its site. The parameters are reaffirmed through the materials and elements of architecture.

In order to develop a cohesive language, four houses have been designed for four different sites. Each house implements the specified parameters in a manner appropriate to the setting of the surrounding landscape. The houses themselves become a transition between the inside and the outside and between the natural and the man-made. Thus this thesis is: Four Houses - A Language of Transition from Earth to Sky.

Our experience-space is necessarily in conflict with the space of nature. The space that nature offers us rises above the ground and is oriented entirely towards the earth's surface. The contrast between the mass of the earth below and the space of the air above, which meet at the surface of the earth, is the primary datum of this (experience) space.
Dom H. Van Der Laan, "Architectonic Space" (E.J. Brill, 1983), p. 5

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