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The Fisher House, also known as the Norman Fisher House was designed by the architect Louis I.

Kahn and built for Dr. Norman Fisher and his wife, Doris, a landscape designer, it was built in 1967 in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. It took Kahn seven years and many different designs to complete this work starting from 1960.The Fisher House was located on a site which sloped gently down from a main road to a small stream. It consists of three cubes, two large ones connected to each other and a small, separate one. .

+ . For Kahn a house is not just a place for a specific person, rather it is the abstract concept of spaces good for living. This devotion for creation of living areas is evident through his installation of benches and built in chairs that are indivisible from the rest of the house. In the living room of the Fisher House Kahn has installed a bench in the window frame He also uses extensions of window sills in the bedrooms to create the same effect.
. The Fisher House uses two cubes to separate the different programmatic uses of a home . The public volume which is perfectly square in plan intersects the north face of the private volume with its southeast corner. Those two cubes are connected to each other at forty five degrees angle The first cube contains an entrance lobby and the master bedroom suite with dressing room and bathroom on the first floor and two smaller bedrooms on the second floor. The second cube is connected by a large opening to the entrance lobby. The two-story-high first floor contains the kitchen, and the living areas separated by a free-standing stone fireplace .

Due to the nature of use and function of each cube, they have stylistically different designs The one-level public area has a more fluid and open plan. in this space there are no dividing walls, the fireplace and the kitchen cabinets are used as partitions to define the living spaces. In the private section however, the building is divided into further squares to define the rooms and resting areas. To Kahn, the structure was the giver of light, the true mechanism. The diagonal intersection of the planes of the house make possible for the walls to face different direction and therefore allows them to capture different views and absorb Variety of different qualities of light.The large windows, window bays and the vertical slits on the facade create the impression of depth and massiveness of the walls, though not true, The foundation of the home is built entirely of stone , for Kahn, a traditional style of building. The stone foundation was necessary because the home was placed on a slope . The exterior and interior portions of the home are made from the same cedar wood sourced from the local Pennsylvania area. This was done to keep down costs

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