An Architectural Analysis of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House
This project was completed for a course in interior design drafting and graphics. The purpose of the assignment was to analyze a certain aspect of a work of architecture. This included drawing a site plan, ground plan, elevations, and section, as well as creating diagrams to illustrate characteristics of the building - in this case the idea of the Farnsworth House as temple or cottage, as described by Simon Unwin in Analysing Architecture. The final product was a poster and presentation
The ground plan, elevations, section, and axonometric of the house were drafted by hand, traced in pen, scanned, and modified in Adobe PhotoShop for presentation.
Section, facing north
Site Plan. Recreated from a drawing in Maritz Vandenberg's Farnsworth House (Phaidon, 2003).
Ground plan
South Elevation
Comparing elements of the 'temple' and 'cottage'
These diagrams were produced to show how elements of the Farnsworth House compare with the archetypal 'temple' or 'cottage'.
Exploded Axonometric
