The document discusses the concept of minimalist architecture. It defines minimalism as stripping a design down to its essential qualities and achieving simplicity. Minimalism aims to reduce ornamentation and consider how all parts, details, and joinery can be simplified. The document provides examples of minimalist architects and characteristics like pure geometric forms, limited materials, and open spaces. It then analyzes two case studies - Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House and Bijoy Jain's Copper House - as examples of minimalist residential architecture employing steel, glass, and other simple, plain materials.

1. MINIMALISM
PRESENTED BY: MAAYESHA Mohammed Sayeed PESHIMAM
V –SEM
s.a.u.d.p

2. WHAT IS MINIMALISM?
• The concept of minimalist architecture is to strip everything down to its essential quality and achieve
simplicity.
• The idea is not completely without ornamentation, but that all parts, details, and joinery are considered
as reduced to a stage where no one can remove anything further to improve the design.
• MINIMALISM WAS THE REACTION TO ABSTRACT EXPRESSION
• Minimalism has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture.

3. MINIMALISM STARTED IN 1960’s IN U.S

4. THE ARCHITECTS WHO PRACTICED MINIMALISM ARE :-
• Tadao Ando (Japan, 1941)
• Alberto Campo Baeza (Spain, 1946)
• Luis Barragán (Mexico, 1902 – 1988)
• John Pawson (UK, 1949)
• Antoine Predock (USA, 1936)
• Claudio Silvestrin (Italy, 1954)
• Álvaro Siza Vieira (Portugal, 1933)
• Vincent Van Duysen (Belgium, 1962)
• Peter Zumthor (Switzerland, 1943)

5. COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF MINIMALIST ARCHITECTURE
INCLUDE:
• PURE GEOMETRIC FORMS.
• SIMPLE, LIMITED AND PLAIN MATERIALS.
• NEAT AND STRAIGHT COMPONENTS.
• REPETITION TO GIVE A SENSE OF ORDER AND UNIFICATION.
• SIMPLE, OPEN SPACES.
• 'CLEAN' LINES.

6. FRANSWORTH HOUSE
ARCHITECT: LUDWIG MIES VANDER DER ROHE .
LOCATION: SPRINGFIELD ,UNITED STATES.
Floor AREA: 206 sqm
It’s a simple rectangular RESIDENTIAL structure.
The elongated rectangle of the house lies parallel to the course of fox
river.
Two distinctly expressed horizontal slabs, which form the roof and the
floor , sandwich an open space for living.
It’s a steel and glass structure
THE HOUSE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS SUBLIME ,TEMPLE
HOVERING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH, A POEM ,A WORK
OF ART.

7. SITE PLAN
FOX RIVER
SITE ENTRNACE

8. FLOOR PLAN
1. ACCESS PLATFORM
2. UPPER PLATFORM
3. LOBY
4. DINNING ROOM
5. BATHROOM
6. KITCHEN
7. MECHANICAL ROOM
8. LIVING ROOM
9. BEDROOM
B
A
C
D

9. ISOMETRIC VIEW

10. SECTIONS
5 M HEIGHT
2.9M HEIGHT
1.6M HEIGHT

11. ELEVATION’S
A ELEVATION
B ELEVATION
D SECTION
C ELEVATION

12. CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
• ‘I’ BEAM ARE USED
• THE STRUCTURE IS SUPPORTED BY 8 COLUMNS.
• 4 COLUMNS AT FRONT AND BACK
WHICH ARE AT 6.6M DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER
• THE ROOF,WHILE MOSTLY FLAT,IS SLIGHTLY INCLINED
TOWARDS THE CENTER TO FORCE WATER TO RUN
TOWARD EDGES

15. INFERENCE
• FRANSWORTH HOUSE IS THE EXMAPLE OF MINIMALISM EXPRESSING THE MINIMAL
NECCESSITY FOR STABILITY OF A STRUCTURE .
• MIES APPLIED THE CONCEPT OFAN UNOSTRUCTED SPACE THAT IS FLEXIBLE FOR USE OF
PEOPLE.
• THE BUILDING IS ESSENTIALLY ONE LARGE ROOM FILLED WITH FREESTANDING ELEMNTS THAT
PROVIDE SUBTLE DIFFERENTIATIONS WITHIN AN OPEN SPACE , ZONES FOR SLEEPING
,COOKING,DRESSING, EASTING AND SLEEPING.
• PROVED DIFFICULT FOR LIVING.
• LACK OF AIR CONDITIONING & THEREFORE , IN THE WARM SEASONS , PRODUCES AN EFFECT
SIMILAR TO THAT OF A GREENHOUSE .

16. REFRENCE
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth_House#/media/Fil
e:Farnsworth_House_by_Mies_Van_Der_Rohe_-_porch.jpg
• https://www.slideshare.net/d1e9ig/casa-farnsworth-
33052936
• https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Minimalist_arch
itecture
• https://www.slideshare.net/anlak2/farnsworth-house-
41914542

17. COPPER HOUSE
 ARCHITECT: BIJOY JAIN
 LOCATION: CHONDI, INDIA
 FLOOR AREA:
 IT’S A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.
 The project begins by the making of an artesian well; soil from the excavation is
used to create a high ground for the house in case of flooding in the heavy
monsoon.
 STRUCTURE IS MADE OF STONE, CONCRETE AND RECYCLED teak &
mahogany WOOD.
 screening devices ARE made of fine netted frame in traditionally crafted wood,
fluted glass which diffuses the light and greenery .
 A thin copper skin clads the upper part of the house to protect it from the heavy
monsoon rains. The same solution is adopted for the cantilevered kitchen roof.

18. SITE PLAN
ENTRANCE TO THE SITE
MAIN ENTRANCE

19. GROUND FLOOR PLAN
1. LIVING AREA
2. KITCHEN
3. DINING
4. COMMON TOILET
5. SITOUT
6. BEDROOM
7. STAIRCASE.
8. INDOOR FAMILY ROOM
MAIN ENTRANCE
1
4
4
3
2
5
6
7
B
A
8

20. FIRST FLOOR PLAN
1. BEDROOM
2. TOILET
3. LIVING AREA
4. STAIRCASE
5. STUDY ROOM
1
52
2
3
4

21. SECTIONAL ELEVATION AT A

22. SECTIONAL ELEVATION AT B

23. 1. THE FIRST IS THE CREATION OF TWO DISTINCT BLOCKS,
VARYING IN WIDTH BY A FOOT, SEPARATED BY THE STONE-
PAVED COURTYARD ON THE GROUND, AND UNITED BY THE
CUPRIC ROOF PLANE AT THE UPPER LEVEL. This spatial strategy
also allows for varying levels of communication, visual and otherwise,
between the upper and lower spaces of the house.
THE LANGUAGE AND LOGIC OF THE BUILDING ARE LOCATED IN THREE
PRIMARY ARCHITECTURAL MOVES.

24. 2. The second definitive move is the layering of light
through a series of material gestures, each one
tuned to the direction that light takes and the
need for changing degrees of privacy

25. 3. The last is the inclusion of the element of water,
whether in the form of the monsoon rain which is
relentless in its action on material and mood, or in
the form of the well, the stream and the pool beyond
the house.

28. INFERENCE
• THE STRUCTURE SUPPORTED SUSTAINABILITY .
• THE STRUCTURE IS BUILT IN A MANGO WOOD, BUT ALSO A FORTRESS AGAINST THE INTENSITY OF
TROPICAL STORMS, WITH THE nature so near, THERE WAS really NO need FOR additional ornaments. That’s
why the house was designed according to minimalist principles.
• Wood makes the minimalist design look warmer and familiar.
• COPPER HOUSE IS AN EXAMPLE OF MINIMALISM AS MINIMALIST WAYS ARE USED TO CREATE AN
INTERSTING STRUCTURE AS spaces communicate very well with the exterior.

29. REFRENCES:-
• https://www.archdaily.com/225365/copper-house-ii-studio-mumbai
• https://www.archilovers.com/projects/61416/copper-house-ii.html#info
• https://www.archdaily.com/292297/bijoy-jain-spirit-of-nature-wood-
architecture-award-2012
• https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2012/04/28/monsoon-
house.html

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