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    House X 1975 (Unbuilt) : Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

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    House X was an unbuilt 1975 design by architect Peter Eisenman for a private residence in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It rejected traditional house designs by having no central core or exposed structural elements like columns. The design used the sloping site to split the house into four quadrants, reducing its perceived scale. Rather than being based on a simple initial form, the final design dissolved any connections to earlier concepts and was meant to reference a more complex future condition.

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    House X was an unbuilt 1975 design by architect Peter Eisenman for a private residence in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It rejected traditional house designs by having no central core or exposed structural elements like columns. The design used the sloping site to split the house into four quadrants, reducing its perceived scale. Rather than being based on a simple initial form, the final design dissolved any connections to earlier concepts and was meant to reference a more complex future condition.

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    House X was an unbuilt 1975 design by architect Peter Eisenman for a private residence in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It rejected traditional house designs by having no central core or exposed structural elements like columns. The design used the sloping site to split the house into four quadrants, reducing its perceived scale. Rather than being based on a simple initial form, the final design dissolved any connections to earlier concepts and was meant to reference a more complex future condition.

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    House X 1975 (Unbuilt) : Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

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    Photo: Physical model

    HOUSE X
    1975 (unbuilt)

    BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN

    Most houses are conceptually vertebrate. That is, in addition


    to their literal, necessary condition of structure they are
    metaphorically vertebrate. They have a center, usually a
    hearth or a stair; their roofs pitch from the center, and their
    construction exhibits a concern for an overall centrality. The
    center expresses both the functional core and conceptual
    unity of the house. In House X, the center is nothing.
    The vertebrate house is also mimetic; it mirrors mans upright,
    axial condition. In an attempt to produce a conceptual distance
    between man and object, House X is nonvertebrate; to this
    extent, it is nonmimetic. There are no exposed linear elements
    columns or beams. These are covered by solid vertical and
    horizontal surfaces, and further, two of the major horizontal
    living surfaces are void. This is a distortion of the Modern
    Movements preferred section two solid horizontal planes
    as well as of the houses traditional mimesis of anthropocentric
    man, who stands on a solid horizontal surface and dominates
    the landscape.

    The specific configurations of House X can be understood


    initially as the juxtaposition of four squares. This configuration
    is only an initial analogue, a heuristic device used to approach
    a more complex sign condition, which in itself is only a
    possible approximation of the reality it signifies. In fact, the
    final configuration is a cumulative attempt to dissolve its own
    seeming connection with any initial analogue. In other words,
    the final plan is only a series of traces that refer, in a sense,
    forward to a more complex and incomplete structure rather
    than backward to a unitary simple, and stable structure. It thus
    becomes a kind of pre-distillation of amore complex future
    condition.
    The 8,000-square-foot private residence was designed for a
    large, wooded, sloping site, adjacent to a country club and
    surrounded by a swimming pool, tennis court and summer
    house. The design used the slope in such a way that the
    natural landscape ran through the house, splitting it into four
    quadrants to reduce the scale.

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Study-sketch

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Axonometric model, North-East corner

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Site plan

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Plan View

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    East Elevation

    West Elevation

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Axonometric model

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Diagram of four els in a pinwhell


    configuration

    Diagram of five els with central space seen


    as two els of unequal legth contained within
    a perimeter

    Diagram of five els with the central space


    seen as two els of equal length but not
    contained within a perimeter

    Diagram showing center els in condition


    of shear thus fragmenting the el (X) in the
    northwest quadrant

    Diagram showing the transposition of the el


    in the northwest quadrant, again producing
    an ABCX reading due to position

    Axonometric drawing showing the cube as


    an expansion of the el

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Axonometric drawing, Scheme H,


    view from northeast

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Axonometric drawing showing four


    els with their vertical corners at the
    periphery

    Diagram showing two els inverted and dropped so


    that they form a mid-point congruence about their
    horizontal elements.

    Axonometric drawing showing four els


    with their vertical corners in the center

    Axonometric drawing showing two els


    inverted

    Diagram showing this same condition in the context of


    the final form of the house

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Scheme F, First floor plan

    Scheme F, Second floor plan

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Scheme F, Third floor plan

    Scheme F, Roof plan

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Axonometric diagram showing the relationship of


    all four interior elevations

    Axonometric diagram showing the relationship of


    the northwest interior elevation to its quadrant

    Axonometric diagram showing the relationship of


    the northeast interior elevation to its quadrant

    Scheme F, section BB

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Axonometric diagram showing the relationship of Axonometric diagram showing the relationship of
    the northwest interior elevation and the southwest the northwest interior elevation to the southwest
    interior elevation
    interior elevation

    Axonometric diagram showing the relationship


    of the notheast interior elevation to the
    southwest interior elevation

    Scheme F, section CC

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Scheme F, West interior elevation

    Scheme F, North interior elevation

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Scheme F, East interior elevation

    Scheme F, South interior elevation

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

    Model, Scheme G, view from northeast

    EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

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