Rufer House
Stuart Jacome Arch 211- M11 Prof. Khorsandi Blog Post Rufer House This structure is a house for Josef and Marie Rufer designed by Adolf Loos in 1922 was built in Schliessmanngasse which is located in Vienna, Austria this is a densely populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also large areas of forest. This house exemplifies a cube having an internal space of 10m by 10m the general layout through the home is exterior walls that are load bearing leaving the interior walls to partition space as a central column runs through the house hiding the plumbing and also acting as a framing device on the second floor. This central column is a grounding agent, connecting the entire house and acting as a point of reference. This is the considered the first example of the new style of Raumplan Regarding the structure as a whole Adolf loos uses Raumplan a planning method based on discret rooms and dynamic sections; which places emphasis on the scale of indi...