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 Michael Bell ¦ Design

House with No Style ι Everywhere ι Developed World ι “avoid all nostalgia, avoid the 50s, avoid the 60s, avoid palm trees, avoid (almost all) angles that are not 90 degrees, avoid color . . .”



 
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Michael Bell Architect House Japan Architect Houw with no No Style
 

Michael Bell ¦ Design

House with No Style ι Everywhere ι Developed World ι “avoid all nostalgia, avoid the 50s, avoid the 60s, avoid palm trees, avoid (almost all) angles that are not 90 degrees, avoid color . . .”



Client Japan Architect

This project was created for an annual open competition sponsored by Japan Architect magazine. Each year an invited juror sets the parameters and judges this competition, which is dedicated to themes of housing and domesticity. In 1992, Rem Koolhaas was invited to act as author and jury. In his call for entries, he solicited designs for a “house with no style,” encouraging designers not only to avoid “the frivolous and decorative,” but also to “avoid all nostalgia, avoid the 50s, avoid the 60s, avoid palm trees, avoid (almost all) angles that are not 90 degrees, avoid color . . .”

This submission proposed that the house be turned inside out and that occupation take place in the city. A torus-shaped space with a glazed front area faces a suburban street; as one progresses through the house, it alternately opens vertically to the sky and horizontally to the landscape. The court is connected to the site with a covered passage. The project is diagrammatic as an architectural proposal; it functions as both architecture and narrative. It won a fourth place/ honorable mention prize and was one of sixteen projects recognized out of 732 international submissions.