Saturday 8 December 2012

Schindler House in Plan, Section and Elevation

"In 1921, with the impact of California fresh on my mind, I built my own house, trying to meet the character of the locale... I introduced features which seemed to be necessary for life in California; an open plan, flat on the ground; living patios; glass walls; translucent walls; wide sliding doors; clerestory windows; shed roofs with wide shading overhangs. These features have now been accepted generally and form the basis of the contemporary California house."

R.M. Schindler






Drawings based off plans by R.M. Schindler circa 1922

13 comments:

  1. Hi nice drawings! what scale are these at?

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  2. Thanks Alan! If I recall correctly, they were drawn at 1:100, however, I think that that might have been skewed somewhere between Illustrator and Blogspot, as they don't look quite right to me. Regardless, their purpose is to be more morphological than literal.

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  3. is there anywhere i can find finished dimensional drawings of this? i am doing a precedenyt study and anything at all would help.

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  4. Hello, Im a student of building engineering degree, and my final proyect is about shindler chase house, I saw many times your planes to help me, but I’m having a lot of problems with the scales and the cover.
    Have you some cad file? Could you send them to me? Please

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    1. my email is eloisa.molina88@gmail.com.
      thanks

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    2. Hi Eloísa, I can send you what I still have, which isn't much. Do you still need the plans?

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    3. hi, I am student in building engineering.and I need the plan of Schindler house for my final project to. if any one steel have that

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  5. Hi Mack! I'm Bárbara, architecture student,and I'm analizing this house, I would like to know if you could lend me your cad planes? Could you send them to me? :)
    bthierry94@hotmail.com
    Thank You !!

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  6. Hi Bárbara, unfortunately I've lost the CAD plans for these drawings over the years. These drawings here were drawn from the original plans of the house, so they are correctly scaled if you want to use them.

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  7. Hi Mack, do you happen to still have a copy of the original plans of the house so I can refer to the scale and measurements used on them? Thankyou!

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  10. Hi nice drawings! I go to a technical school in Austria that has a focus on architecture and carpentry. This year I am in the final year, therefore we have a school-leaving examination about the schindler chase house.
    So I would like to ask if you also have a plan for the second floor?

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