Fluidr / schromann's "bruno fioretti marquez" set

gropius villa 2.0

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Dessau, Germany
bruno fioretti marquez, arch.

a very abstract train of thought was built here on the foundations of the old Meisterhaus by Walter Gropius. In order to appreciate what the architects did here, one needs to briefly look at their train of thought.

Seeing as two of the original seven houses had been destroyed during the war (one half of a duplex and one single-family house), and that in the meantime a completely different house had been erected on top of the existing Gropius-foundations, the architects felt it would be wrong to simply reconstruct the original houses as if nothing had happened during the last 70 years. No war, no DDR, just life as usual.

So their proposal was to rebuild the houses as an 'abstract memory'. The original volumes of the structures were filled-in, as were the placement of the windows within the facade, but as an abstract form--flush with the concrete and treated with a translucent ceramic coating. The interiors are new in design and are not out of concrete, but are 'inserted' into the hulls in a light construction.

It is a consequential continuation of the original Bauhaus thesis.

I was there with a group of 4th semester students, who, I think, for the most part appreciated the abstract thought process behind it.

I really enjoyed the exteriors and the extremely well crafted concrete. Very sculptural...I could have stayed there a lot longer.

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Gropius Villa 2.0

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N 55 B 3.4K C 9 E Apr 26, 2016 F May 5, 2016

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Dessau, Germany
bruno fioretti marquez, arch., 2015

Being there was actually somewhat haunting, as the buildings are so abstract that it seems that they are only a model-- or one is within a collage where a figure placed within a colored setting had been desaturated.

Tags: 2016-04-29 meisterhäuser dessau bruno fioretti marquez dessau villa bauhaus concrete beton brut abstract abstrakt conceptual konzept erinnerung memory fuzzy destroyed rebuilt

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