The House at Regensburg was built in 1979 and is located in Regensburg, Germany. It was designed by Thomas Herzog a German architect born in Munich 1941. Many of Herzog’s buildings are associated with bioclimatic architecture and eco-friendly buildings mainly due to the fact Herzog was involved in the concept of solar power technology.
During this essay I will analyse Thomas Herzog’s House at Regensburg and explain the themes and principles behind different aspects of the house in comparison to two other bioclimatic or eco-friendly houses in the 20th century.
Herzog used a wide variety of materials for the construction throughout his career, but the type of materials used is influenced by the proposed purpose and or appearance of the design. For example the House at Regensburg uses reinforced glass to the south of the house to control the suns solar energy distributing throughout the house when and where appropriate is resulting in saving fifty percent of the energy that would be required by a normal house. To achieve this there is a conservatory/greenhouse with a sloping roof which also shares the roofline of the first floor. As a result this aspect of the house acts as a normal greenhouse by trapping the suns heat and distributing it in a variety of ways whilst acting as a normal greenhouse and
conservatory resulting in a more natural looking building.
The types of materials used for this purpose also have a function and specific aesthetic qualities. The reinforced glass has the function of trapping the suns solar energy, but also aids good aesthetic qualities increasing the sense of space. The veneered chipboard and plywood repeats this aspect of the house by heavily insulating the walls and decorate the house. These mat...
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...As a result I can conclude that these houses are similar in terms of their main purpose of being eco-friendly and all use different ways of doing so for example solar energy and conserving heat loss through different methods. The House at Regensburg and The Hockerton Housing Project both use these energy saving techniques for form and function for example wood and glass is used for aesthetics and a natural atmosphere while acting as insulation. Also these houses can arguably be vernacular it terms of style, materials used and technique, but maybe to a stretched view of being vernacular. Therefore these ideals also follow Frank Lloyd Wright’s ideals of ‘form and function are one’ (Jackie Craven, page 1 2009). All the houses also have similar layouts in terms of zoning and how each part of the building is used aiding the user even though they were built decades apart.
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The architect of the house: Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) was a German architect who studied as an apprentice carpenter before studying architecture at a building trade school in Leipzig, followed by the technical University of Munich. ‘He was in no sense an official fascist ideologue: he was an outspoken anti-Nazi and at one time a member of the ring, but with Hitlers coming to power lost the teaching post.’ K.Michael Hays, Feb. 1989, Tessenows Architecture as National Allegory: Critique of Capitalism or Protofascism [ebook], MIT press, available at J Stor, http://links.jstor.org,sici?sici=0889-3012%28198902%290%.
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An architect must take into account the design of the space and its approach by daylight through the openings, there should be numerous opportunities to get the desired amount of daylight in t...
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