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MASTER’S STUDY

F. L. WRIGHT(1867-1959)

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• He is known as Frank Lloyd Wright .

• F.L.Wright was born in

Richland center, Wisconsin

on June 8, 1867.

• He died on Phoenix,

Arizona, on April 9, 1959, at

the age of 91.• His mother wants him to be

an architect.

INTRODUCTION



• Wright spent a year and a half inthe School of Engineering at the

University of Wisconsin.

• Wright by training was a

structural Engineer before

leaving school early.

• Wright started work with Louis

Sullivan and Dankmar Adlerafter training, who were working

on the auditorium theater in

Chicago.



Basic Principles of Wright Designs



HIS PROJECTS

• Florida southern collage

• Winslow house 1893)

• Larkin building 1904)

• First National Bank of Dwight, illinois

•Robie House 1906)

• Unity temple.oak park 1905)

• Taliesin School of Architecture

• The Marin County California) Civic Center 1962)

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The Johnson Wax building in Racine, Wisconsin 1939)

• Falling water Mill Run, Pennsylvania, 1937)

• Guggenhium museum,new york 1959)



WRIGHT’S MAIN PROJECTS

• FALLING WATER ,1936

•GUGGENHEIUM MUSEUM,1959

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LocationOhiopyle, (Bear Run),

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Date 1935-1939

Building Type House

Construction Syst

emreinforced concrete, stone

Climate Temperate

Context Rural

Style Expressionist Modern

Notes S.230. Edgar J. Kaufmann

residence. Cantilevers

dramatically over rock outcropping

and rushing stream.

TOTAL COST $155,000 (Included $8,000

architect’s fees, and $4,500 for

installed walnut furnishings)

AREA The main house uses 5,330 square

feet. while the guest house uses

1,700 square. feet.

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•Designed in 1935 and completed in 1939, Fallingwater isrecognized as one of the most

unique houses ever built in America.

• It is a monument to Wright's concept of organic

architecture .•Edgar J. Kaufmann, who wanted a home near the waterfalls

of Bear Run. Wright took that notion to its extreme. "I want

you to live with the waterfall," he is said to have told

Kaufmann

• The home was owned and used by the Kaufmann familyuntil 1963.

• Mr. Kaufmann once said that “Fallingwater is not an

institution, it is a humane experience….” This guide

encourage you in order to heighten your own experience.

FALLING WATER



•

The structure rises more :than 30 feet above the falls, thus creatingthe sheltering effect.

• Two outdoor terraces extending prominently from the living room

and master bedroom comprise almost as much floor space as the

interior oft he house.

• Wright planned each face of Fallingwater to blend with the natural

surroundings.

• A series of four large bolsters built into a natural sandstone ledge

comprise the structure's foundation.

• Three of these bolsters are made of reinforced concrete, and one ismade of stone masonry.

• Three-foot wide girders daringly cantilever outward from the

bolsters approximately 15 feet over the stream.

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These girders are the primary support for the main level terrace.



•Perhaps this is most especially true of the home Fallingwater, where

house and land truly have merged to become one.

• The structure is positioned over the falls in a series of cantilevered

concrete “trays” anchored to sandstone masonry walls.



Fallingwater

(Mill Run,

Pennsylvania,

1937) is

generally

considered to

be Wright’s

residentialmasterpiece.



•Concrete joists (four inches wide) spaced at four feet on center

span.

• The slab works integrally with the girders as a load-carrying T -

beam, while providing an aesthetically pleasing smooth finish on

the structure's underside.• The master bedroom terrace cantilevers (approx. six feet)

farther out than the main level terrace.

•Four vertical structural steel T-shaped members span upward

from the main level to support the master terrace cantilever.Interestingly, these members are also used as window mullions.

• The problem Bar reinforcement is generally placed in the top

of cantilever members to carry tension.





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The Fallingwater renovation plan

calls for both strengthening and

concrete repair.

• At the main terrace level,

strengthening will include bondedpost-tension tendons parallel to

the cantilevered girders, and

unbonded tendons in the

transverse direction.• The strengthening plan also calls

for steel channel beams to be

bolted to each side of the master

level concrete joist directly above

the four 'T'-shaped mullions

Repair Procedures



•Bar reinforcement is generally placed in the

top of cantilever members to carry tension

stresses creSuch loads ated by dead and live

loads.

•at the master and main terraces includestone flooring, furniture, people, and snow.

While the cantilever girders at the main level

contain sixteen one inch-square re-bars each.

•

This deficiency has caused both terraces tosag downward towards the stream.

• Cantilever deflections of up to seven

inches over the l5-foot cantilevers caused

tension cracks to appear at the parapet walls

at the master terrace.

THE PROBLEM :





• The building itself became a work of art. From the street, the building

looks like a white ribbon rolled into a cylindrical shape, slightly wider

at the top than at the bottom. Internally, the galleries form a spiral.

•

When asked why he chose a ramp rather than conventional floors, Wright replied that the ramp was more welcoming to visitors, it was

better to rise to the upper levels and to descend slowly around an

open patio.

• The reason of tilted wall- Because its founder Soloman R

Guggenhium and architect thought that the paintings in a gentlysloping wall can be seen with a better light and better than if they

were hung in an absolute vertical position. This is the main feature of

our building, the assumptions on which the project was conceived.

CONCEPT



•

In 1958 Wright designed the GuggenheimMuseum in New York city it is one of his

most famous buildings rising in a spiral

shape.

• First museum established by the Solomon

R. Guggenheim foundation, dedicated tomodern art, founded in 1937.

INTRODUCTION

• Between 1943 and 1956, the start of

construction suffered numerous delays

due to changes in the conditions of thesite, changes in the agenda of the museum

and the increased costs of construction

materials, but finally, on August 16, 1956

the work of construction could begin.



• Guggenheim died before construction was completed in 1959, but when Wright died in April 1959, construction was finished, leaving

only some final details. Six months later, on October 21, the

museum opened its doors to the public.

•

In 1992, the building was supplemented by an adjoining rectangulartower, taller than the original spiral, designed by the architectural

firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.

• The exhibition, open to the public visiting the museum, also displays

the technology and technical instruments.

• The materials used in its construction were basically precast concrete

blocks.



• The white paint used on the internal walls

makes the works of art stand out.

• The skylight is supported by steel joints.

INTERIOR

• Wright directs visitors via a ramp to the

top of the building, and down a gentle

helicoidal ramp so that almost without

realizing it, the work set out at different

levels is interconnected, yet distinct

from one another by a small transitional

space that is almost imperceptible.



• The tour begins at the

entrance and slowly leads

visitors to a path where theartworks are exposed along a

spiral ramp lit by a large

skylight at its zenith divided

in the shape of a citrus fruit.







“An ideal

American

architecture

shoulddevelop in

the image of

trees.”

Frank Lloyd

Wright

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