Tugendhat House Analysis

The Tugendhat House was a private villa designed by Mies van der rohe, which located in the Brno, Czech Republic. In this building, Mies used steel frame structure and glass material to create a unique flowing space, which connected the interior space and exterior space and also guaranteed the privacy of the residence at the same time
The Tugendhat house sits on a hillside with two story floor plan and a semi-underground room which looks as if it were insert in the hillside. The first floor is a public living space which use glass as the wall that combined the landscape and house together. The glass wall stretches from interior space to exterior space, blurred the line between inside and outside and created penetration effect from outside to
On the first floor of the house, Mies create a super open public space, and then breaks them to a small space with single walls. The small space linked to each other and exist independently, which have different function. In this space, the living room and the study are separated by the agate slate wind, and the wooden curved wall separated the kitchen from other Spaces . Different function space is no longer separate by continuous walls, but independent wall. The gaps between the space allow people in different small space can interact with each other, which create a better living experience than before.
As a private house, Tugendhat house also needs to have a private space. The first floor is already set as a big open space, so most of the private space are happened on the second floor. To maintain the privacy of the space, Mies still use the old style way to separate room by closed walls. However, he created an opening space around the private room, which attract residents in a private space to go to the outside
which is another important theory of Mies. In a large open space, which was separate to different part by single wall, can become a single open space again by removing the boundary wall, this large space can be reorganized by the owner. The idea not only create a flowing in sense of space but also create a flowing in sense of time. The Tugendhat house reflected the idea of “total space” in the living space. However, the concept of “total space” become mature in Mies’s later work- Crown hall, which located in the IIT campus. Compared with Tugendhat house, crown hall have a more simple construction form, looks like a simple glass box, the hall has no internal support structure but composed of steel frame structure and glass curtain wall in the outside. The interior space was separated by wooden partition. The flexible blocking part creates an interesting total