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1440 012 in Landstuhl am 05.04.2023

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LANDSTUHL - GERMANY

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"The Blue House", Landstuhl, Germany [1980] _ Architect: Christine Hawley.

"The Blue House was part of a portfolio of house designs for a development in Landsthul, Germany, where the requirements were to create maximum energy efficiency. Although this is now a standard prerequisite for almost all design, in 1980 there was minimal awareness of how critical this was going to become in the future. The discussions of sustainability remained theoretical and the houses at Landsthul were one of the few pioneering projects of the time. We worked closely with an environmental engineer who established the technical principles the designs had to adhere to. There were five typologies providing accommodation in a number of different spatial configurations. The organisational and positional principles were established to harness as much solar power through passive methods. The importance of describing the environmental requirements is needed to contextualise the design. The natural energy source came exclusively from sunlight and this became one of the principle influences in the design, both technically and symbolically. The house was situated on the edge of a disused quarry; the building was south-facing and organised around a semi-circular plan to allow the south façade to receive as much light as possible. The principal south-facing space was the living area, which rose through a double-height volume to accommodate a studio gallery. At the rear of this double-height volume was the ‘trompe wall’, absorbing and subsequently redistributing the heat; the south façade was predominantly constructed of glass to allow maximum light absorption. However, it was the rear north-facing wall that provided the entrance to the building where the narrative of the house could be expressed. 

The wall was constructed with 600mm block work and then a render was applied as a surface finish. The fenestration was limited in order to allow as little heat loss as possible. It was through the manipulation of the render that the narrative was told. It was critical that the dynamic of the light was captured; the geographic contours of the location were abstractedly inscribed on the surface, which not only functioned as the entry to the building but also acted as a metaphor for the first chapter of a book where the introduction to the main themes of the story are often told. The render was applied with different levels of thickness to create surface articulation. The geography of the site could be easily read geometrically and the arc of land on which the house sat was translated into a recognisable form that was profiled on the façade with the application of raised render. There were other contextual features – the presence of water, an escarpment and distant hills – and these were all acknowledged through forms of abstract representation on the façade by manipulating the surface so that the cement finish was differentially articulated. Shadow would be cast by the differentiated surface and as the day passed, so the shadows would lengthen and contract, both metaphorically and physically suggesting that the sun played an integral part in the working of the house. Fehn memorably talked about the use of light as part of the architectural palette and how the designer needed to respond quite differently according to latitude. Architecture is flat and characterless without the articulation of light, but the Blue House had surfaces that dramatised the use of light and shadow. The nuance described in text is impossible to reproduce with solid surfaces; perhaps the closest reference is the genre of film noir, where the self-conscious use of side- and up-lighting not only articulates profiles but also insinuates atmosphere. The front façade of the house obviously does not achieve this level of drama, but it is an inspiring quality to refer to."

Hawley, C. (2016). Transitions: Concepts + Drawings + Buildings, Abingdon: Routledge.

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Regional Health Command Europe for the US military is in Landstuhl the LRMC it is a kinda big deal

Ah, makes sense. Basically, it makes sense that they would send an injured marine there and it’s not hella sketch like I originally assumed. Maybe they’re looking out for Nile afterall! (....but it is also the us military sooooooo)

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Good morning Landstuhl

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