Metamorphosis of the domestic spatial language: The Tugendhat house 1928 -

Abstract

This work investigates o n the domestic space language that Mies van der Rohe elaborates through the project and the publications of the house Tugendhat (1928 -1930). It superimposes two spatial languages in the house, the free plan and the articulation of volumes. It is in the use of the free plan where his language undergoes a radical change. It begins to elaborate a series of spaces through objects that do not have associated a certain function. These places are made up of the furniture, walls and the enclosure and represent the stages for the "the house´s life ". He uses the geometry of a virtual grid of cross -shaped steel pillars to fix these places and establish relationships that order the plan. The itineraries that are formed are associated with gaps left by the scenarios and relate places and objects. These elements take value through the quality of its construction and its material. Mies proposes a new vision through the union between technology and crafts that involves not only material but techniques of its transformation and affect the value of the experience of the domestic scenarios. The perception of these places advertises the domestic and it is through the transparency of glass, light and reflection that objects take "life", dematerialize and extend their limits to ex pel them from the imposed order. They become "extraordinary objects".