GROUP PRESENTATION ON LOUIS I KHAN’S BUILDINGS

"I always start with squares“- said Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn (February 20th 1901 – March
17th 1974) was one of the United States'
greatest 20th century architects, known for
combining Modernism with the weight and
dignity of ancient monuments.
 The Fisher House, also known as the Norman Fisher
House, was designed by the architect Louis Kahn and built
for Dr. Norman Fisher and his wife, Doris, a landscape
designer, in 1967 in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
 The juxtaposed cubic volumes broke free from the
orthogonal plans of both Kahn’s and his contemporaries’
architecture. MidCentury Modernist houses were often
seen as cold and rigid, minimal in their interior
arrangements and devoid of ornamentation. The
technological spoils of modern materials allowed for a
minimization of structure to free up floor plans and
increase the quantity and dimensions of apertures.
The Fisher House uses form to separate the different programmatic
uses of a home. The public and private are divided between two
distinct two story nearly cubic volumes. The private volume is aligned
along the north south axis and the public, which is rotated exactly 45
degrees, is aligned along a northeast southwest line which runs
parallel to the driveway. The public volume intersects the north face
of the private with its southeast corner. The public space, which is
perfectly square in plan, holds the entrance corridor and the master
bedroom at ground level and two other bedrooms above.
Uhh.. The second volume is slightly off square, having a rectangular
plan, and holds the living, dining and kitchen space in a double height
room. Throughout the house there are deeply recessed windows. These
allow light in during winter and keep out direct light in summer. The
deep recession also allows them to be opened during storms without
allowing rain to come into the house.

Structure
The house stands on a platform, built with a
lattice of wooden pillars on which to build
the beams that lead to the construction of
the plants below.

To adapt to the slight inclination of the

terrain, Kahn gave Fisher the house of a
stone base that compensates for the change
of slope and offers a lower level overlooking
the garden.
 Materials
 A loved Kahn stone, the materials from the
ruins of antiquity that had so admired during
his stay in Rome. Pennsylvania was cheaper to
build in wood, so that, for the house Fisher,
Kahn took smoothly traditional technology of
the platform structure. But the sun was
leaning toward a river and there was a need for
a basement for storage. Therefore, Kahn was
able to use masonry walls as a base for the
wooden structure, taking it even to the heart
of the living room, in the form of a home
semi.
The facade of the entire house is made of
wood. The outer coating of the facades is of
cedar wood. The house consists mainly of a
vertical wood siding.
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