Marin Center Renaissance Partnership Project


ELIMINATE THE BUILDING AS A BOX BY MAKING ALL WALLS ENCLOSING SCREENS. TAKE THE UNWHOLESOME BASEMENT AND MOVE IT UP ON THE GROUND, ENTIRELY ABOVE IT. FALLINGWATER – 1935	HARMONIZE ALL NECESSARY OPENINGS - DOORS, PASSAGES AND WINDOWS - WITH GOOD HUMAN-SCALED PROPORTIONS AND MAKE THEM ACT SINGLY OR IN A SERIES, TYPICALLY AS LIGHT SCREENS INSTEAD OF WALLS. WILLITS HOUSE - 1901

REDUCE THE NUMBER OF MOVING PARTS AND SEPARATE ROOMS. ASSOCIATE THE BUILDING AS A WHOLE WITH ITS SITE BY EXTENSION AND EMPHASIS OF ALL THE PLANES PARALLEL TO THE GROUND. ROBIE HOUSE – 1906	ELIMINATE THE COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS IN FAVOR OF MONOLITHIC MATERIALS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THIS EMPHASIZES THE CONCEPTION OF THE BUILDING, MAKING IT CLEARER AND MORE EXPRESSIVE. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM - 1959