A previous PPB THREAD (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1796&highlight=pawson) about JOHN PAWSON (http://www.johnpawson.com/) gave me the idea to model the TETSUKA HOUSE (http://www.johnpawson.com/architecture/residential/world/tetsukahouse) . I found this "exercice" very exciting and highly educationnal, at least for myself. Actually, I kind of fell in love with this project. Thanks to Jason for the first thread, to Mimi for posting the pdf from which Ryo was able to bring back the dwg, and to Page for posting back Wegner's Y-chair to complete the interior furniture :not worth .
So, here it is...

outside...

living room towards kitchen

living room towards courtyard

tatami room

ground floor

first floor

bedroom

courtyard 1

courtyard 2

courtyard 3

And here's the skp for you to walk around it :D . The file is pretty heavy, sorry for that, but I had some :craqueur: pleasure modelling the interiors... :peace:

:craqueur: thanks for sharing michel , very nice work ! :not worth

When do you guys at ARJM have the time to do all these things?
Ryo - to do all the renderings ( and the hoaxes)

And you - "modelling for fun (?!)"

Don't you have architecture to handle?
contractors to fight with?
Clients to be frustrated of?
:bang head :bang head

...
contractors to fight with?
Clients to be frustrated of?
:bang head :bang head

So you have this kind too ? :)

Michel : thanks for your great work.

:craqueur: for sure

:rollbite:
:hihihi:
:stormf***er:
:rock on:
:clap:
:craqueur:

:craqueur: :craqueur: :craqueur: :craqueur: :craqueur:
SIMPLY THE BEST... MICHEL

Michel

An extraordinary thing, to be able to understand the nature of apprenticeship, the idea of learning from submerging ourselves in reliving the experiences of others, retracing the work we find fascinating.

I've posted earlier that the words "to learn" and "to make ours" are almost the same, "Aprender" and "Aprehender". This is what you've done here Michel, you've learned from it by making it yours. Rarely are we able to do this. Imagine, to go beyond pretty images, to be able to enjoy the pleasure of walking it through.

Wonderful!

And not only do you do this for yourself, but you come around and share it with all of us, as a gift, which in itself is an invaluable gesture and one much appreciated.

Thank you, once again

Saludos

Juan

yeah i think often copying fine details and plans for your own interest can be great i found myself gaining a huge amount of respect for Geoffrey bawa after tracing his plans...

on another note.. Ryo is the tetsuka house also being released in the special edition GA Tamiya model collection???

Great work Michel congratulations :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Thanks to Jason for the first thread, to Mimi for posting the pdf from which Ryo was able to bring back the dwg, and to Page for posting back Wegner's Y-chair to complete the interior furniture
Sounds as if you were recieving an oscar or some prize "Thanks to everybody who made this possible, bla bla..."

Sounds as if you were recieving an oscar or some prize "Thanks to everybody who made this possible, bla bla..."
Didn't you hear the public ovation? :wondering

on another note.. Ryo is the tetsuka house also being released in the special edition GA Tamiya model collection???
Why are you asking to me? :confused:
Ask M. Tamiya and Futagawa! :D

Sounds as if you were recieving an oscar or some prize "Thanks to everybody who made this possible, bla bla..."
eheheheh, it's a team work Cesar! :D

WELLL M8 s!!!! this is great, !!! of course I wouldn't expect less, I am geting spoiled...

simply fanstastic michel!!

Hey Takesh- kun ! any hints to find the kmz??

Great job Michel , especially because it it was a collaborative effort :not worth :not worth

Hey Takesh- kun ! any hints to find the kmz??
I'll check it out. So far couldn't find the address.

Great work michel!! it looks really super!
Actually using sketchup is a very good way to understand a building. It's not that hard to model as max of cad. And you can learn really a lot of it!
You can really understand (of course, only if you want to :P ) to way things are organised, build,..

couldn't find the excast adres, but I could find the district.
SETAGAYAKU, Toky (can also be SETAGAYA KU)
Link (http://www.view.captureweb.co.uk/imagedetail.php4?Image=32614)

Found the kmz location thanks to the aerial photo from the new El Croquis 127 of Pawson. Unfortunately the house is not build yet... anyway, maybe Takesh can grant us with a 'reportage' :D

CRAQUEUR!!! cher ami!!

Wonderful! That is a really nice model, thank you for sharing it.

Every time I show my wife a picture of Pawson's work I see her silently dreading the day when all of the "things" in our house will start to disappear.

It is interesting that the structural column in the living room was not "squared off" in keeping with all of the other elements in the house , but rather, was made circular & echoes the shape of the planting bed of the tree. A lesser architect would not have added these grace notes.

By the way, I have been researching the lighting that Pawson uses behind his benches and at the ceiling/wall junctions. I have been told by a photographer of one of his buildings that it is an inexpensive tugsten "strip light". I also see that on page 142 of the El Croquis "John Pawson" that he specifies it as being a 30cm unit at 35 watts. Would any of you readers know specifically what product it is?

A previous PPB THREAD (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1796&highlight=pawson) about JOHN PAWSON (http://www.johnpawson.com/) gave me the idea to model the TESTUKA HOUSE (http://www.johnpawson.com/architecture/residential/world/tetsukahouse) . I found this "exercice" very exciting and highly educationnal, at least for myself. Actually, I kind of fell in love with this project. Thanks to Jason for the first thread, to Mimi for posting the pdf from which Ryo was able to bring back the dwg, and to Page for posting back Wegner's Y-chair to complete the interior furniture :not worth .
So, here it is...


Wow, I feel honored to have inspired someone :clap:

Thanks, Michel.

I think the enchantment of this house is that you need to understand architecture to appreciate it.

This house is a good example of architecture as a whole definition of space. Very plain exterior, not what many uneducated people would expect as architecture. Most people would expect modern architecture to be fllashy with large cantilevers a la Fallingwater or sculptural forms a la Gugenheim Bilbao.

The skp file is also a good test for SketchUp and your PC. It runs very slow in my computer, which again makes me think about the low speed of v5. Apart form the internal furniture goodies, this is just a house! I am running it in an 820 Intel Pentinum D, with 1 GB 3200 DDR2.

Fran, try to switch off the furniture, tree, carpet, site and window layers... you should be able to move around easily. Well, that actually was the purpose of so many layers... :D
Thx for all the kind replies. Looks like people here are enjoying such models. Shall I continue? :wondering

PPPUUULLLLEEEASSSEE, S'IL VOUS PLAIT, TI PREGGO !!

( no begging emoticon BTW...) :not worth :not worth

Michel,
Thanks for the hard work, I love the house even more now!
I believe I would give this 10 craqueurs up if I was sure that I knew what that meant.
:clap:

Shall I continue? :wondering
Shall we dance? Shall we? shall we? :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Michel,

Thank you so much for sharing your efforts. :craqueur:

Shall we dance? Shall we? shall we? :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

That movie was horrible.. :bang head

Shall I continue? :wondering

:rock on:

Michel

My expression ability in English is limited...
But this time I can get over :
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Thanks so much
(excuse my errors)

That movie was horrible.. :bang head
SO YOU HAVE SEEN IT? :wondering
GUILTY :D

SO YOU HAVE SEEN IT? :wondering
GUILTY :D

He was a client of ours...I kind of had too :rolleyes:

He was a client of ours...I kind of had too :rolleyes:

Lamest excuse of all times :wondering

Lamest excuse of all times :wondering
don't mind;
he's just increasing his post record :D

don't mind;
he's just increasing his post record :D

Post whoring is an art form in itself.

Post whoring is an art form in itself.
I see that :D

906- nearly at 4 digits Ryo! A lot to learn from JP still but you can get there :P

1005, shake baby shake! :D

Miki, beautiful surprice for me - thanks :not worth
Pawson is the best and your work is fantastic !!!

thank michel :cheers:

it's so cool your model and also the house
thx u

can't believe i missed this post...

:craqueur:

:not worth

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

I was just testing the new Cheetah3D/Piranesi combination on this model. Here's a shot for the heck of it.

*i made the one shot on my free time, the living room-view2, rendered in max7-vray ;)
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a377/kurdapya/Copy-of-f1_800.jpg

Nice nice :clap:

Shall I continue? :wondering


Please! Do!

And thankyou.

I was just testing the new Cheetah3D/Piranesi combination on this model. Here's a shot for the heck of it.
any other results, Jake? :wondering

Wow i was tricked at first, i thought this was real. What a gem of a thread i just read through all of the pages at once :P

any other results, Jake? :wondering

I got stuck doing chargeable work for a couple weeks. What a bummer.

I'm going to get it out again soon, because I want to try to figure out how to light interior spaces with Cheetah and I was kind of on to something when I was interrupted by real work. :D

As some of you are testing renderers, wouldn't it be nice and useful to post the files in the related sections? This way, everyone could participate in a maxwell or Artlantis file to make that rendered model evolve... What do you think? We have texture kings, lightings kings, modelling kings... :wondering

As some of you are testing renderers, wouldn't it be nice and useful to post the files in the related sections? This way, everyone could participate in a maxwell or Artlantis file to make that rendered model evolve... What do you think? We have texture kings, lightings kings, modelling kings... :wondering


I could do that. I'll post it when I get to the office. Only problem I foresee is file size, but we'll give it a try.

Cheetah file posted here (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2550)

hi to everybody......I love this Architect......may I have 3ds model??? I'm an Artlantis R user.....

thanks a lot

welcome maurop from kazakhstan!

hi to everybody......I love this Architect......may I have 3ds model??? I'm an Artlantis R user.....

thanks a lot

All you have to do is export the model from SketchUp as 3DS. If you're not a SketchUp user check HERE (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2785).

Welcome to [PPB]²:cheers:

you have outdone yourself... excellent!

I am really impressed by a number of things in the house. The first is the tea house within. The entry requires two turns(I wish it required ducking). It is naturally lit from the court (I wanted to see a sky light at the top of a two story shaft or space). It is small and fairly traditional being a 4 1/2 mat with a fire pit.

The one piece of furniture that was drawn is like something out the Robie House. The horizontal surface works well with the location. Was there any other furniture specified?

I assume a single person lives in this house.

He has the inside/outside thing down very well. For example, I would like to compare his work to Adjaye's. There hasn't been much serious comparison between the intentions of these two architects anywhere. Or really any serious attempt at qualifying why this Pawson work is any good or worthwhile. What distinguishes it?


And remember "I like it" / "I don't like it" isn't acceptable.

What do you think?

Cheers,

Wm

...

Very, very good job.

Sorry, I meant good job regarding the rendering. But I'm a Pawson fan as well. I guess it depends on whether you like Minimalism or not, really.

I could do that. I'll post it when I get to the office. Only problem I foresee is file size, but we'll give it a try.



Someone knows where Jake is?

I like the way the rooms look into the courtyard and your renderings are excellent, but this house has the feeling something to look at rather than one anybody actually lives in or would want to live in. The view towards the kitchen leaves me totally cold and overall the feeling is one of total sterility with some bad furniture thrown in for good measure. Honestly, your sketchup renderings look far far better than the 'reality.'

Nick Fox,
Perhaps the photographs are misleading.. Does this one help? The lighting ensures that the spaces are not cold. If you find the place sterile try imagining it cluttered; does it take to the clutter?
When I saw Josef Hoffman's Austrian pavilion and Venice it had been vandolised and there was plenty of junk lying around in it. However, the order present in the building allowed for the trash, it consumed the disorder. It seems to me that Pawson's highly ordered work is generally able to consume the inescapable chaos of daily life.

and Hoffman's Pavilion:

Nick Fox,
Perhaps the photographs are misleading.. Does this one help? The lighting ensures that the spaces are not cold. If you find the place sterile try imagining it cluttered; does it take to the clutter?
When I saw Josef Hoffman's Austrian pavilion and Venice it had been vandolised and there was plenty of junk lying around in it. However, the order present in the building allowed for the trash, it consumed the disorder. It seems to me that Pawson's highly ordered work is generally able to consume the inescapable chaos of daily life.

It just doesn't look like a house that people live in. A lounge with wooden arms a bowl sitting on a concrete/stone bench don't create a space with any warmth even though it might make a pleasant picture. I get the contemplative nature of the lounge looking into the courtyard but if the tree dropped its leaves in the courtyard or you dropped a magazine on the floor, you'd have a fit as it would destroy the illusion of serenity that's trying to be created. Don't get me wrong, I think the courtyard and the spaces around it are very nice; but for me it's a house that's purely concerned with the creating some form of Zen illusion rather than a house people would actually choose to live in and this is after all supposed to be a house for people to live in and not a Zen garden. I think the choice of furniture/decoration, such as it is, is just so bad it's beyond calling dreadful. The second photograph doesn't help change my mind (nice composition though) as it's a distorted view of what is a relatively small internal courtyard

Great!I like the light color!
By the way,which software did you use to make these renders?
I 'm a new comer.

Someone knows where Jake is?

i always enjoyed reading jake's post.

i always enjoyed reading jake's post.

Jaaaaake?
Where are youuuuuuuu????
:D

Jaaaaake?
Where are youuuuuuuu????
:D
he has been lurking...

he has been lurking...

cool :D

Hey Ryo, my friend, you should be sleeping by now after that huuuuuuge "charette" :D

It just doesn't look like a house that people live in. A lounge with wooden arms a bowl sitting on a concrete/stone bench don't create a space with any warmth even though it might make a pleasant picture. I get the contemplative nature of the lounge looking into the courtyard but if the tree dropped its leaves in the courtyard or you dropped a magazine on the floor, you'd have a fit as it would destroy the illusion of serenity that's trying to be created. Don't get me wrong, I think the courtyard and the spaces around it are very nice; but for me it's a house that's purely concerned with the creating some form of Zen illusion rather than a house people would actually choose to live in and this is after all supposed to be a house for people to live in and not a Zen garden. I think the choice of furniture/decoration, such as it is, is just so bad it's beyond calling dreadful. The second photograph doesn't help change my mind (nice composition though) as it's a distorted view of what is a relatively small internal courtyard



Would be interesting to see some lived in shots; not clutter, though a few signs of life...I think this kind of pre-lived in setting has a context of its own and needs to be read as such

Yes I agree totally with you that there is a context for pre lived-in shots and that can be something as simple as a magazine lying open a countertop or a single flower in a vase. Without such 'human' touches the architecture (in my opinion) lacks a soul and appears sterile.

It just doesn't look like a house that people live in. A lounge with wooden arms a bowl sitting on a concrete/stone bench don't create a space with any warmth even though it might make a pleasant picture. I get the contemplative nature of the lounge looking into the courtyard but if the tree dropped its leaves in the courtyard or you dropped a magazine on the floor, you'd have a fit as it would destroy the illusion of serenity that's trying to be created. Don't get me wrong, I think the courtyard and the spaces around it are very nice; but for me it's a house that's purely concerned with the creating some form of Zen illusion rather than a house people would actually choose to live in and this is after all supposed to be a house for people to live in and not a Zen garden. I think the choice of furniture/decoration, such as it is, is just so bad it's beyond calling dreadful. The second photograph doesn't help change my mind (nice composition though) as it's a distorted view of what is a relatively small internal courtyard

ummm...thats why it called minimalism? open your eyes and think out of your box.

In my opinion it looks calm and peaceful. Nick, yeah there is staging for the photos as in all projects, but the people who live in it make the home. Pawson is merely providing the construct for the serenity. Providing for the opportunity of calmness. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the people who choose to live in that house buy into the idea of your "Zen illusion" more so, obviously, than you do.

:D

Yes I agree totally with you that there is a context for pre lived-in shots and that can be something as simple as a magazine lying open a countertop or a single flower in a vase. Without such 'human' touches the architecture (in my opinion) lacks a soul and appears sterile.

you might as well subscribe to "Architectural Digest" or "Homes and Garden" or "Burke's Backyard" - I'm sure they're really "liveable"....

Pawson is a cut above the rest when it comes to understanding reductivist architecture. His approach is not even "minimalist" per say. But pure "minimum". Zen? no way... he's beyond Zen. Have you seen a Zen garden with spirals in the sand? you will not ever find another architect that matches his extremity. Most, if not all will compromise and say, "that is too starck, too cold, I'll have to do something to break up the space" - but a true connoisseur will say, "that is powerful architecture, it exudes warmth and calmness like nothing else".

You want to know what is minimalist and cold architecture? - SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima. There is a difference. Why so? Pawson says that a seasoned eskimo can differentiate between 26 different shades of white in the snow. Can you? Which shades of white exudes warmth? Which shades of white exude coolness/coldness? You haven't even begun to scratch the surface / depth of Pawson's understanding and there you go criticising.

Engelen Moore (when they were together), also said that coldness / warmth isn't determined by the way the space looks, but whether there's proper and adequate heating, and goes on to relate an episode where people were taking off their jackets in one of their starck houses saying, "it's really warm in here."

In my own experience, when I first showed starck spaces from images to my then girlfriend who's not an architect, she was hesitant she could ever like living in such spaces. Then the marriage came and it was time to move to an apartment - making everything bare minimum was top priority, though not as extreme or "expensive" as Pawson, I tried my best with an extremely limited budget. She has now changed her mind on such "sterile" thinking.

Michel

An extraordinary thing, to be able to understand the nature of apprenticeship, the idea of learning from submerging ourselves in reliving the experiences of others, retracing the work we find fascinating.

I've posted earlier that the words "to learn" and "to make ours" are almost the same, "Aprender" and "Aprehender". This is what you've done here Michel, you've learned from it by making it yours. Rarely are we able to do this. Imagine, to go beyond pretty images, to be able to enjoy the pleasure of walking it through.

Wonderful!

And not only do you do this for yourself, but you come around and share it with all of us, as a gift, which in itself is an invaluable gesture and one much appreciated.

Thank you, once again

Saludos

Juan

Very Well Said! and Michel..........:craqueur: :craqueur: and of course :not worth

can you attach the skp file, your model is great

:confused: Hi there! I'm Davide, a student from Italy. I'm searching about a photo of a model of th House in Germany of John Pawson. Can you help me? please, I'm desperade!

Just go to your local library and look for EL CROQUIS nr 127 (http://www.elcroquis.es/MagazineDetail.aspx?magazinesId=141&lang=en).

Just go to your local library and look for EL CROQUIS nr 127 (http://www.elcroquis.es/MagazineDetail.aspx?magazinesId=141&lang=en).

There's no picture of a model in this book...

Nice work with the model of the tetsuka house! I use it for my paper i'm writing about Pawson.. Tetsuka house is one of the projects i want to study.. So thanks!

I assume a single person lives in this house.
...

The articel says that a single family lives in this house, a middle aged couple with no children...

great work as always!we are running out of comments michel!

hello


this is my design in the tetsuka house

render in vray the house its woauuuu:not worth john pawson

other render

Tetsuka house is finally visible on google earth... but wait, surprise! The neighborhood is getting crowded :D