Floor Plan Richard Meier Smith House

The smith house built amidst the rocks and trees of a one and a half acre site overlooks long island sound from the connecticut coast.

Floor plan richard meier smith house. It is similar to the approach at meier s smith house which sits on a rocky promontory in connecticut. Richard meier home design plans house plans scale floor plans house design tattoo how to plan interior design. Saved by richard brand. Meier s douglas house meanwhile is situated on an isolated site that slopes down to lake michigan.

A dense cluster of evergreens stands at the entrance to the property. The smith house is part of a series of single family homes rationalists that mark a first step in the work of meier when it was part of the group the five architects. The smith house was built between 1965 1967 by richard meier partners architects. This paper addresses the aesthetics of how a building is designed.

The smith house was planned starting in 1965 and completed in 1967 in darien connecticut and overlooks the long island sound from the connecticut coast. Light architecture architecture design pools for small yards richard meier house elevation home design plans house plans floor plans layout. These autocad blocks are in dwg and dxf format. One day i had a call from carole smith asking if i would be interested in designing a weekend house for her in darien connecticut.

Richard meier recalls of the project that would later propel his career as an architect. Autocad library of the smith house by richard meyer architect autocad drawings of plans ground first and second floor site plan and elevation. I was working out of. Through the morphological analysis in 2 d and 3 d drawings both relational and constructive of the smith house 1965 1967 the paper aims to read the intellectual form of the.

The compact prismatic shape of the house expresses a certain attitude toward the place besides being a refuge is also an object reflecting and refracting the surrounding natural scene. Smith house richard meier plans. She was looking for a young architect who would give full attention to her house. I was working out of one room of a two room apartment shortly after leaving the office of marcel breuer.

Behind the land clears and rises to the center of the site then drops sharply to the rocky shoreline and a small sandy cove. Meier s american homes look like the penthouses of skyscrapers with the hills providing all the elevation. Description for this autocad block.