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pIArch Daily’s/I got some great photos, diagrams and renderings up of A HREF=”http://www.archdaily.com/50533/vitrahaus-herzog-de-meuron/” VitraHaus/A, Vitra’s Herzog de Meuron-designed campus showroom that resembles a series of individual houses, ripped from their foundations and stacked chaotically by some Modernist giant:/p

blockquote…The primary purpose of the five-storey building is to present furnishings and objects for the home. Due to the proportions and dimensions of the interior spaces – the architects use the term ‘domestic scale’ – the showrooms are reminiscent of familiar residential settings. The individual ‘houses’, which have the general characteristics of a display space, are conceived as abstract elements. With just a few exceptions, only the gable ends are glazed, and the structural volumes seem to have been shaped with an extrusion press. Stacked into a total of five stories and breathtakingly cantilevered up to 49 feet in some places, the twelve houses, whose floor slabs intersect the underlying gables, create a three-dimensional assemblage…./blockquote

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