Adolf Loos Villa Muller - Picture

Adolf Loos Villa Muller - Models

From the outside the Villa Muller, its just a wite cube, simple and without decoration. Once you open the model, you will see how complex the internal is. We make the model moveable, inorder to can see more clearly about the structure.  We can see a very strong compare between outside and inside. Loos trying to create a different feeling for the people from street, and people from inside. He want give simple feeling for people to look from outside, and make people from inside feel comfortable and warm.

Adolf Loos Villa Muller - Drawings

Adolf Loos  Villa Muller

“My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces (cubes). I do not design floor plans, facades, sections. I design spaces. For me, there is no ground floor, first floor etc.... For me, there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces etc. Storeys merge and spaces relate to each other. Every space requires a different height: the dining room is surely higher than the pantry, thus the ceilings are set at different levels. To join these spaces in such a way that the rise and fall are not only unobservable but also practical, in this I see what is for others the great secret, although it is for me a great maer of course. Coming back to your question, it is just this spatial interaction and spatial austerity that thus far I have best been able to realise in Dr Müller’s house” Adolf Loos, (Shorthand record of a conversation in Pilsen, 1930)

Rumplan means" Solving the floorplan in Space". In Loos work, There are two things very important within his Raumplan. Firstly is a differentiation of the height of the ceiling in differently used rooms, with a strong link to the privacy which the room should provide, secondly the creation of room sequences with the different rooms, with a special importance on the visual connections of the rooms. That means precisely that more private annexes with lower ceilings are spatially connected through stairs, visually trough view-throughs etc. with higher more public rooms. The different heights of the ceiling cause a break-through of the established horizontal layeringof the house. This leads to complex space structures which were made aviable by as well complex vertical circulation by stairs. 

Sections and site drawing, from the site Loos trying to make the house stay as far away from the main road as possible. And there a a secret garden with plenty of trees surround. Because he want to cover some unwanted look from the road and keep the house in private. This Provide a very individual and personal space.

This is the plan drawing. The black solid line shows how each floor been support, and the use of defferent line weight seperate the funature, main wall, staircase and window.                        

"...this spatial interaction and spatial austerity that thus far I have best been able to realise in Dr. Müller’s house" Adolf Loos

The room-cast shows that the dominant room of the house is the hall and assigned to her are the other rooms. The ground floor and the first floor are the really interesting levels for the intrinsic spatial plan (grey tagged in the axonometric projection). The reason for this is that Loos situated in the
second level only the private rooms, like the sleeping room, robing-room and the child`s playroom. Rooms which have the same or similar functions. Based on his idea of the spatial plan Loos gave every room a height according to the function, so the height difference between the rooms arise only between rooms of different functions, which is not given in the second floor. The vertical organisation from public rooms in the ground floor to the private rooms in the upper part of the house is typical for Loos.