Looking at Architecture Design Seagram Building, New York
Friday, May 6th, 2011 by admin # Architecture
Seagram Building was established in 1954-1958, as the business center of New York, adjusted for social class users of the building. The building was born of the demands of modern times are so sophisticated and classy want social status, so that drive the spirit of Mies Van Der Rohe to create a spectacular architectural masterpiece by referring to:
Adaptation of buildings to express your style images of buildings with users of social class does not ignore the motto “Less is More”.
Simple fixation and graceful, but still reflect something glamorous clan war is always sparkly.
Rectanguler blocks.
Uniformity (uniformity) fixation and Monumental (monumentality).
Mies still exist against the platonic world of his imagination with no thought of relations site, climate, internal activity, in designing buildings. Mies tehadap prefer the integrity of the building environment and exploit the touch of modern technology and the use of building materials.
Seagram Building is a skyscraper that was born in the 20th century. Building designed by Mies in conjunction with Philip Jonhson who organize the interior space therein. Seagram Building Tower comprises 38-storey spacious ats 520 square feet per floor and only occupies 25% of sitenya. Part podium whose height is relatively low (4-10 floor) placed on the back that looks like a backbone and stand on its own rectangular block with a plaza that surrounds it, as if a maid who is always ready to accompany the main tower. Canopy that juts out, as if to provide protection and greeting ‘welcome’ to visitors.
Seagram Building a Platonic form, consists of modules in the form of grid-kaiak kaiak repeatedly that usually causes stiffness, but in this building actually looks more supple and balanced. As a consequence, seen two square modules contained in the window and half-square module contained in a window and a half square module located on panelspandrel that looks proportional, all contained on the facade of the building. Building materials like bronze and glass thin ink (Sheer Tint glass), travertine, granite, the whole thing is to create the image and expensive modem.
In the Seagram Building, Mies attempted to reduce the dimensions of the existing beam shapes embellish, and make the profit column as kerangga curtain wall that serves as a frame mullion spacing and arranged meetings from edge to edge, from top to bottom to cover the entire facade of the building. Every detail, including elevators, stairs, lighting fixtures, door handles, kaiak letter from bronze, all designed with great caution. The main focus is the curtain wall (curtain wall) with the details on each corner. The walls are made available does not cover the corners in order for the corner piers are exposed, so that visually, the angle of the building shows the traditional robustness. On the other hand, the curtain wall looks as if the thick as the thickness flutings on piers and I-beam, so that the edge angle may seem like a relief skliptural. Refinement Optical contained in the spandrel panels and ladder-shaped reliefs figura window. From all that, it can be said that the success of Mies Van De Rohe in the process of building facade, where the actual profile of the column structure wrapped with chasing the concrete is placed standing slightly to the inside corner of the pseudo-column, the thickness of the curtain wall (curtain wall) is as thick as window sills , his expertise lies in the processing of every detail of the corner of the Seagram Building.
Criticism and Architectural Views
seagram_building_frontSeagram Building as one of the skyscraper was designed in accordance with the form of the International Style, consisting of a grid pattern over and over so it looks solid. Powerful and robust image that should appear prominently in this building became confused understanding with the use of curtain wall (curtain wall) as cladingnya. Maybe Mies still hold fast to the principles of visual improvement (visual refinement) with the use of glass rather than ceramic clading, manner or concrete. But on the other hand, strong and sturdy images become inconsistent with itself. While the desired visual refinement menimbulan Mies to a dramatic impression, so far not been able to solve the visual effects of interior angles of geometric shapes Seagram Building.
Action imposition of turmoil seen in the column are not regular, sometimes scrambling tenuous, it is very critical for Mies. Structural forms is only used as decoration only for the purpose of war just like the Romans who use the system of Greek structures such as column and column head (entablatur). Architecture Mies has a classical analogy in the use of rigid columns, order, simplicity, which is displayed in the building facade.
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