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Posted by hipstomp | 24 Feb 2010
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Arch Daily's got some great photos, diagrams and renderings up of VitraHaus, Vitra's Herzog & de Meuron-designed campus showroom that resembles a series of individual houses, ripped from their foundations and stacked chaotically by some Modernist giant:
...The primary purpose of the five-storey building is to present furnishings and objects for the home. Due to the proportions and dimensions of the interior spaces - the architects use the term 'domestic scale' - the showrooms are reminiscent of familiar residential settings. The individual 'houses', which have the general characteristics of a display space, are conceived as abstract elements. With just a few exceptions, only the gable ends are glazed, and the structural volumes seem to have been shaped with an extrusion press. Stacked into a total of five stories and breathtakingly cantilevered up to 49 feet in some places, the twelve houses, whose floor slabs intersect the underlying gables, create a three-dimensional assemblage....
via dvice
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It looks a bit like the Metz Centre Pompidou : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Pompidou_%E2%80%93_Metz (quite rough looking on these pics, but it's nicer now that it has a roof).