Raumplan is a design strategy best exemplified by the works of Adolf Loos. The Loos projects examined included the Tzara House, Villa Moller, and Villa Müller, each of which feature rooms of different scales and floors of different heights. As such, the implementation of stairs between the individual rooms becomes a key part of the plan’s circulation. My task was to implement raumplan in my design while housing a given number of bathrooms, bedrooms, and so on on a sloped site.
I chose to implement the ideals of raumplan in a manner different from Loos. My design is essentially two main walls into which floors and half-floors are “snapped” into, with glass covering the other two sides of the exterior. For each floor above ground level, the outer edges of the floorplate are cut and dropped down, forming a half-floor, which becomes greater in size on the upper floors. A rectangular segment is also cut out from each floor and raised up. Floor height decreases on the way up, as does the area of the floor plate itself. As such, there is a greater level of privacy achieved on the upper floors, which hold the bedrooms. The rectangular structures are at first used as a functional stair landing on the ground floor, before being employed in a free plan-esque manner on the upper floors and allowing people to see through to the floors above and below them.