This
project was designed by Selim Vural during his employment
with Eisenman Architects in 2003. The competition was
organized by the MAK Center, and organization in LA responsible
of the preservation and promotion of The Schindler House;
a canonic modern house designed by the Austrian architect
Rudolph Schindler.
The objective of the project was to
re-interpret the modernist values of the Schindler house
in our era and generate a maze of galleries
below the ground level. The figuration
process developed by disintegrating the original
Schindler scheme into striated figures. The striated concrete
slabs in the new site were derived from the original 3'
concrete slabs developed by Rudolph Schindler and applied
as a transformational erosion on the original image.
The
program consisted of underground galleries lit by skylights,
a semi-open auditorium for conferences and performance
arts, administrative offices and rose gardens.
