Study of a house with a garage, September, 1979.
Joost Meuwissen
A detached house never stands alone. It shares its space with minor architectures, such as playgrounds, barns, porches, swimming pools and garages. Adjacent to a detached house, the garage is conceived of as being just a wing mostly, following the same style as the one of the house but either protruding towards the street or pushed further back into the garden. If it is laid far back into the rear of the garden, it may remember the old coach house with its horses.
When situated along the same line as the front of the main house though, the garage door, by its sheer size, may easily spoil the proportion system. If this door is removed to the side, the garage may still do so, this time by its being too much of a volume or too much of a plane. This study handles this difficulty by neither proportion nor scale but through Elementarism. Doors and windows are also substances, as are the railings to the roof terraces. By varying the height of the railings, either house gets the portable look.
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