Floor Plan Oscar Niemeyer House

3 august 2015 by brian vermeulen.

Floor plan oscar niemeyer house.

Brazilian modernist architect oscar niemeyer built only one residential home in the united states and he did it all by snail mail. Oscar niemeyer s only us house is on the market. Das canoas house now is open to the public offering visitors a permanent exhibition on oscar niemeyer. Here niemeyer has designed the rooms to be refuges with small windows revealing only a tiny part of the luxuriant growth outside.

Beside the pool are sculptures by niemeyer s friend alfredo ceschiatti whose elegantly curved female bodies fit perfectly into the context of fluctuating forms. The house is considered amongst the most significant designs of modern architecture to exist in south america s largest nation brazil. Oscar niemeyer s only us house is on the market. The glazing meets the roof with a minimal frame and combined with sliding floor to ceiling glazed walls niemeyer has created an illusion where outdoors and indoors are indiscernable landscape and architecture are one.

Brian vermeulen on oscar niemeyer s canoas house. Project name das canoas house location rio de janeiro brazil client owner oscar niemeyer project types single family year completed 1951 shared by august king project status built by. Oscar niemeyer designed the das canoas house in 1951 as family home. Designed by oscar niemeyer in the shape of the tilde above the a in são paulo the copan celebrated its 50th birthday last year with middle age starting to take its toll.

The most interesting feature is the fusion of organic architecture and minimalist architecture. But the relationship between house and landscape changes if we go into the bedrooms. As it is an obvious tribute to the farnsworth house das canoas puts geometric regularity in crisis but does not alter the formal purity. Das canoas house oscar niemeyer.