Above is the horizontal enclosure, revealing the heaviness of the lower floor converted from water tanks carved out the mountain, and the lightness of the 'free plan' inspired upper floor. The weight of enclosure increases from the front to the back of the house in coherence with privacy.
Below is the ertical enclosure, represented by the section of three paths through house. First of a guest coming in from the main entrance, through the living room and out onto the front porch daybed. Second is Eileen Gray coming up from the garage stairs, through the porch, living area, bedroom, wardrobe, and into the bathroom. Third is the maid entering from the kitchen, through the service area and into her bedroom. Eileen Gray critiqued the free plan's lack of spatial diversity and distinction by defining pockets of positive and negative spaces through the interplay of changing heights in the ceiling and floor.
Integration of plan and section to reveal insights into the circulatory relationship of walkable space in Tempe a Pailla. Below is a time map, with contours marking out the distance by time to each part of the house. Representing the way people move through space.
Circulation, a flattened version of the axonometric diagram below, map of the floor area.
Structure, the upper floor employes Le Corbusier's free plan, with thin structural column ns set in a grid pattern and redundant walls. Eileen Gray concealed the columns by snapping the walls onto the column grid in plan, another critique of Le Corbusier's free plan by reconnection structure with space. In the lower level, retaining walls define the subtractive spaces out of infinite wall thickness.
Above is the horizontal enclosure, revealing the heaviness of the lower floor converted from water tanks carved out the mountain, and the lightness of the 'free plan' inspired upper floor. The weight of enclosure increases from the front to the back of the house in coherence with privacy.
Precise suggestion of complicated spatial qualities using concise graphical forms.
