Schroder House

The Schroder house was built in 1924 by architect Gerrit Rietveld. It was commissioned by Mrs. Truus Schroder to shelter herself and her children in the Netherlands . It is a small one family house, with a flexible interior, spatial arrangement, and the visual and formal qualities. The Schroder house plays a part in the modern movement as it was a masterpiece and that cleverly expresses its ideas and concepts developed by the De Stijl movement. The planar qualities were used to derive interior spaces and also creating different armature per floor. The Schroder house is the only house that was designed and strictly followed the De Stijl style which was marked with primary colors that can be seen throughout the entire building. The small two-story dwelling had 2 stories, the first floor is the public and transformable area with all the necessary living spaces while upstairs were more private separated by portable partitions. There was no hierarchy in the floor plans because of its flexibility. The kid’s bedroom had direct access to the outdoor with proper drainage and water supply. The colors were used for different functions. The architect frames the very few views beautifully. He utilizes his ideas with the use of an open plan, a functional window screen and the use of spaces to strengthen the concept. The main structure of the house is reinforced slabs and steel profiles. The materials used in the building was wood brick and plaster. The intersecting planes allowed the windows to open perpendicular to the walls. The house did not fit in with the surrounding houses instead it stood out it was clear it stood for something greater than its time.
It is easy to see the Schröder House, as the locals did at the time it was built, it is an eccentric manifesto little suited to living in but it’s worth the wealth of practical and poetic details that only a visit to the house can truly illuminate. Among these are the hot-water pipes designed to run underneath the built-in shoe rack to keep boots warm. There are the tables that fold out from the walls to save space.
Thus, the house still seems remarkably beyond its time, despite the fact that besides telephone and gramophone, there is not a single electric gadget in sight. The recent renovation work has been entirely true to Schröder and Rietveld’s original vision, giving present-day visitors the same thrilling experience as those who arrived in the 1920s.

Overy, Paul. The Rietveld SchröDer House. MIT Press, 1988.

Kuipers, Marieke. "Rietveld-Schröder House (NL) Inscribed on World Heritage List." Journal / International Working-Party for Documentation & Conservation of Buildings, Sites & Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement (Docomomo), no. 25, July 2001, pp. 32-33. EBSCOhost, arktos.nyit.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=455032&site=eds-live&scope=site.

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