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Jan 25, 2011 · Completed in 1998, Maison Bordeaux sits on a small cape-like hill overlooking the city of Bordeaux. Save this picture! The house was designed for a couple and their family, but before Koolhaas and ...
The Maison à Bordeaux is a private residence of three floors on a cape-like hill overlooking Bordeaux. The lower level is a series of caverns carved out from the hill, designed for the most intimate life of the family; the ground floor on garden level is a glass room – half inside, half outside – for living; and the upper floor is divided into a children's and a parents' area. The heart ...
Mar 2, 2020 · The Maison à Bordeaux is a stunning private residence that spans three floors and sits on a hill overlooking the city of Bordeaux. Designed by Rem Koolhaas for a client who became partially paralyzed in a car accident, the house was created to cater to the needs of an active family man that was learning to use a wheelchair.
The Client’s Needs: A Guiding Concept. Covering a total area of 500m², the Maison à Bordeaux was designed as a futuristic residence for a couple and their family who previously resided in an old beautiful house in Bordeaux. Two years before OMA commissioned the project, a fatal car accident had paralysed the husband of the family and left ...
Mar 17, 2019 · Three-Layered House. Middle level interior of Maison à Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas, 1998. Ann Chou/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped) Rem Koolhaas designed a house to accommodate an active family man confined to a wheelchair. "Koolhaas started with this," wrote architecture critic Paul Goldberger, "—the client’s needs— not with the ...
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The Maison à Bordeaux is a private residence of three floors on a cape-like hill overlooking Bordeaux. The lower level is a series of caverns carved out from the hill, designed for the most intimate life of the family; the ground floor on garden level is a glass room – half inside, half outside – for living; and the upper floor is divided ...
Maison à Bordeaux : Architects : KOOLHAAS, REM : Date : 1994-1998 : Address : Bordeaux, FRANCE : School : Floor Plan : 500 SQ. M. Description : The Maison à Bordeaux is a private residence of three floors on a cape-like hill overlooking Bordeaux.