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Muuratsalo Experimental House
Paraskevi Komodromou, Maria Prodromou, Eftychia Nastou
Alvar Aalto
“ I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.”
Alvar Aalto-Experimental House
• Architect: Alvar Aalto • Location: Muuratsalo, Filand • Built: 1953 • Type of project: Experimental- Summer
House
Architectural Approach
• experimenting with building without foundations
• experimenting with free-form column structures
• experimenting with different types of materials
Materials
• Wood • Different types of brick • Different types of ceramics
Close to the environment
• Local materials • Local techniques • Frames the landscape
Court
Interior Features
Solar heating
Accessibility
Views
Sections
Abstract model
• Experimenting with spatial arrangement
“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper”.
Alvar Aalto