Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Landscape With Regards to Site
We try as architects in general to build into the context of the site. However, this decision on the way we will build on the site is a difficult task. What makes a building site specific? We looked at buildings like Falling Water and the Farnsworth house, both are considered masterpieces, but deal with their sites in very different ways. What makes these two houses successful? Is it the designer or the care with which the building and site coexist?
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I think it is the way the building acknowledges the site. If you took away the site of falling water, the building wouldn't be what it is. The site of Falling Water is really what makes the project. On other hand, the Farnsworth house is a little different, It can exist on another site. It wouldn't be as powerful of a concept if it was in the middle of a city somewhere though.
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