Guggelhopf?

[feigetl]

Our current project is a timber holiday retreat. To put my concept into a nutshell, I have a cube looking box, that stays closed during the year when the family isn't using it, but when they do, it opens up-windows opening, walls folding down and folding out.

By design tutor told me to look at something for reference, where an architect had a design that folded out and down etc. It looks like she wrote guggelhopf, tried googling it with no result, does anyone know what she could be referencing to?

The page she wrote it on, with the general idea is below:

[goldthang]

B"H

At Student congress this year, a speaker said anything that can be explained in a nutshell must stay in a nutshell... :P

Elaborate... :D

[feigetl]

Elaborate on the concept?

[primocordara]

I knew it! had to go for a book for the correct spelling, I even posted it HERE (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=453&highlight=gucklhupf).

GUCKLHUPF (http://www.a.tu-berlin.de/architekturdarstellung/3_grundst/dg1/dg1_3axo_gucklhupf.html)

[goldthang]

B"H

Elaborate on the concept?

Yip...

[feigetl]

I knew it! had to go for a book for the correct spelling, [/URL]

Thank you so much! That's perfect :)



Yip...

I was thinking about the site we were given: It is completely natural, nothing surrounding it, Just a mountain, a lake, tree's etc. Anything we design is going to be sitting in the midst of nature. In nature you have insects and animals, some of them hibernate into themselves during winter or night, eg: a bat covers itselfs in its wings and then folds out, a turtle retreats into it shell, a butterfly starts off as an egg and burts through etc.

I wanted my house to do that, at first when I started with a very geometric symmetrical cube (which has changed), It was this unnatural object that didn't seem to belong in its environment, but as I started folding out walls, and patios, and windows opened etc. It started looking like it belonged.