Our third assignment as students in the course of Architecture at the University of Dundee was called Analysis of Precedent. We were divided into groups of two or three students and each group was given a famous house. What we had to do was analyze the specific building, provide different models, sketches and drawings.
The building we were given was the Schroder House. Built in 1924 in Utrecht, Netherlands for Mrs Schroder and her three children, the house was designed by the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld. What is specific about the building is that it was radically different both inside and outside from the other structures of that period. Mrs Schroder wanted to have an open plan first floor but later decided that it should have separate premises as well. That is why Rietveld designed unique sliding partitions that divided the first floor into different rooms.
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| Schroder House- interior |
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| The model that we have built |
The house is maybe the only true building of De Stijl – an artistic movement found in the 1920s in Netherlands. Everything in it is reduced to its essentials. Only simple colors like red, yellow and blue are used as well as black, white and grey. Every element is subdued to the horizontal and vertical orientation.
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| Gerrit Rietveld's famouse Red and Blue chair |
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