Richard Meier Opaque facade facing Transparent facade facing

road, woods, land. lake.

Private
Rare

Public
Main lake
October 12, Entrance
View

1934
The Jubliee Church

Richard is an Smith’s House

American
abstract artist
and architect
Post-Modern Architect with Rationalist and Cubist approch.
His philosophy is grounded in using light as the main
material to give form to his orderly, sculptural, and linear
architecture. Profoundly influenced by Le Corbusier,
Richard Meier refines his principles of geometrical
progression by playing with structure, space and elements
of formal precision.
Smith’s House
Spatial Organisation Materials Used
Meier tries connect the building and its surrounding Richard Meier uses Concrete or Bricks for walls
environment. He uses glass and makes the facade trasparent and structures and glass for windows.
to view the nature. The flat, white aesthetic is therefore also For exterior finish he uses, White enamel
a way to interact with the landscape. The building clearly coated steel or Porcelian enameled metal cladding
stands out and demands attention. or Stone and Tile cladding.
This is clearly seen in his projects such as, Smith’s House In he’s Jubliee Church project he used con-
and The Getty Center. crete mixed with titanium oxide to reflect
sunglight and maintain temperature.

Smith’s House

The Getty Center

The Walt Disney Company
by Michale Graves
Gallery of Oxfordshire Residence

Colour Geometrical shapes and Structure Differerence in Ideology

Early in his career, Meier worked with artists such as
painter Frank Stella and favoured structures that were
white and geometric. Hence,Meier's buildings are almost
exclusively flat white, both inside and out. This absence of
colour allows the viewer to focus on the structure simply
in terms of its geometric components, with each building
being a compilation of basic geometric shapes
Richard uses geometrical shapes such as cubes, cylin- Meier is quite different from the other post-
ders, square and circular shapes in his projects. He uses modern architects. Architects in this timeline
French windows in most of his buildings, which have square made buildings colourful, and used many symbols
frames spanning through out the facade. and decorations, Classical orders which Meier did
not use. He was following the principles of
He shows the structural elements evidently. They are modern architects like Le Corbusier and Mies Van
aesthetic pleasing and invlove in the casting intresting Der Rohe, and made very simple forms.
shadows and play with light.
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Site Context Design

try - The site has

N En canteen on the east side,
lawn on north, football
Canteen 15200
ground on south and
SSAA block on west side.

- The east side view is not

Site Canteen attractive while the other
28700

three are.

- The entry to the site is from

SSAA
Block
North-East and North-West.

- The sun in this region

moves from east to west via Plan
south Area - 205 sqm

W E
North West Facing

Design Evolution
Basic geometric - The Pavilion is
shapes, circle accessed from the
and rectange north.
are used
- The curved east-
part is viewing the
ground and SSAA.
And west is opaque.

- Congruational South East Facing South West Facing

Roof Plan
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 cental space is

Design Elements Materials used

- Walls, roof and columns is
made of RCC and Cladded
with white porcelian tiles. North Facing East Facing

- Glasses are fixed with White

Structural elements used - coated aluminium frames.
Column and vertical supports
and Pargolas, to create - Pargolas are made with
intresting shadows. These White coated aluminium box South Facing West Facing
elements are used by Richard sections. Srujan Anand Gajjala
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