CASTEL BERANGER

INTRODUCTION EXTERIOR
• Architect: Hector Guimard
• This is shown through different use of materials throughout
the facade and placement varies across the façade.
• Location: Paris, France
• Date: 1890 (Circa)
• Windows of different shapes (arch window, rectangle) and
sizes are used.
• Style: Art Nouveau
• Building Type: Apartment Building
• Pediments use and Exposed brick work and Iron elements
• Construction: Bearing Masonry, Brick, Cast Iron
System.
• Context: Urban

• Graceful asymmetrical iron entry gate, precedent to work of

contemporary American blacksmith Albert Paley. CENTRAL
COURTYARD
• The Castel Beranger is a six-storey high tenement of thirty-six
apartments VESTIBULE
• Inspiration- Victor Horta’s Hotel Tassel
Hippocampi or mask like
• The stem and branch-like character of both the interior STUBBY Cast iron seahorse like
COLUMNS figurines cling to the facade figures on the railing
furnishing and the exterior ironwork stand in a curious and brittle
contrast to the elements that make up the mass of the building's MAIN
exterior. ENTRANCE
• It was the first residence in Paris built in the style known as Art GRUOND FLOOR PLAN
Nouveau. It is a 6 story apartment house built around central
courtyard which is entered through a vestibule passage.

Curvilinear wrought iron Ceramic art at the base of

grills on windows corner windows.

INTERIOR
• The design of furniture and smaller objects & of decorative
Brick masonry arches elements such as castle Beranger proved a part of the
DESIGN integrated with rubble global design- floors panelling stained glass, fixtures
• Describing the Castel Beranger, the architectural historian and masonry in stone. fireplace & door handles were specifically in context with
critic Simon Texier wrote: “The Art Nouveau had as its the rest of the building.
characteristic trait a naturalist approach, which made a
building or a simple object into a work which was at the
same time complex, in motion, and unified by its lines.”
• There were many elements of the new building that were neo-
Gothic, though Guinard's interpretation was very far from the
pure Thirteenth century style advocated by Viollet-le-Duc
• The ground floor plan of Castel Beranger demonstrates
Guimard’s approach to applying Art Nouveau concepts in the The structure is
plan. ELEVATION embellished by materials
• The overall plan is asymmetrical. Building elevation completely asymmetrical like brick, stone, iron and
ceramics Curvilinear lines incorporated Stained glass windows
• The rooms branch off a central courtyard. even in elements such as
• Each apartment is designed differently Guimard put into the ENTRANCE GATE balustrades and door handles
building a multiplicity of different forms, materials and colors,
some of them inspired by the colors of the villas of seaside • The entrance it is A cast iron gate designed in Stencilled ceiling with Curvy
towns. A-symmetrical whiplash lines.
• The ornament was abundant, but carefully designed and not • Its much more free flowing decoration.
overwhelming; it moved away from gothic into a more personal • The iron entrance gate & the vestibule with its Cast iron retaining bars
and original style. moulded terracotta tiles its metal tile- forming an arch show
• The interior decoration was also diverse and personal. retaining bar and its stencilled ceiling & Arch patterns from Nature.
• Then entrance arch hints at Romanesque but a closer look at the resting on two Stone columns
stubby columns at either side with swirling carved ornament • Asymmetrical wrought iron gate showing curvy Moulded Terracotta Tiles
makes it clear that the design is original. and whiplash lines

PRATIBHA VREMA SIGN. SHEET NO.

ART NOUVAEU ARCHITECTURE 14ARCH021

B ARCH IIIrd YR – VI SEM
ACA AGRA
DATE
1

20-03-2017
 CASA MILA
INTRUDUCTION EXTERIOR
Architect : Antonio Gaudi • The front of the house looks like massive rocks, relaxed only by the wavy line
Location : Barcelona, Spain iron and beaten ornaments.
Date: 1905-1907 Viewed from the outside the building has three parts:
Building Type: Multifamily Housing • Formally, the façade can be read in three sections: the street façade, spanning the gro
Construction: Masonry And Concrete System floor; the main façade, including the main and upper floors; and the roof structure, w
Context: Urban houses the attic and supports the roof garden.
Style: Art Nouveau • Expressionistic, fantastic, organic forms in undulating façade and roof line, l
court.
• "La Pedrera’-the quarry—was the name an astounded • Their presence contributes to the almost flowing dynamism of the buildin
population gave to this completely unique building. but aesthetic.
today it is a landmark of Barcelona.
• It could be compared with the steep cliff walls in which
African tribes build their cave-like dwellings.
• The wavy facade, with its large pores, reminds one also of
an undulating beach of fine sand, formed, for example, by
a receding dune.
• The honeycombs made by industrious bees might also
spring to the mind of the observer viewing the snake-like
ups-and-downs that run through the whole building FLOOR PLAN
Inside the Casa Mila-Balcony,
courtyards of the showing the self-
Casa Milà supporting stone
facade, also supported
by curved iron beams
INTERIOR
• Inside the courtyards of the Casa Milà (La Pedrera) natural colours and
rounded shapes decorate the walls.
• The stairs in the yard which lead to the entrances of the apartments, twine
along the walls. Many of the interior walls can be moved.

TOP VIEW OF THE CASA MILA FRONT OF THE CASA MILA ELEVATION

DESIGN
• The building is 1,323 m2 per floor on a plot of 1,620 m2.
• The house as a constant curve, both outside and inside, CATENARY ARCHES UNDER
incorporating ruled geometry and naturalistic elements THE TERRACE
• Casa Milà consists of two buildings, which are structured
around two courtyards that provide light to the nine storeys: STAIRCASE Patios, structurally, are The two halls are fully Composed of 270
basement, ground floor, mezzanine, main (or noble) key as supporting loads polychrome with paintings parabolic brick arches of
floor, four upper floors, and an attic. of interior facades. oil on plaster surface, varying height, the
• The basement was intended to be the garage showing a repertoire spine-like rib structure
MEZZANINE
• The main floor the residence of the Mila's (a flat of all 1,323 eclectic references creates a varied
FLOOR
m2), and the rest distributed over 20 apartments. mythology and flowers. topography of attic.
• The resulting layout is shaped like an asymmetrical because
of the different shapes and sizes of the courtyards.
• The attic housed the laundry and drying areas SECTION THROUGH CURTYARD
• One of the most notable elements of the building is the roof,
crowned with skylights, staircase exits, fans, and chimneys.
• The stairways were intended as service entries, with the ROOF
main access to the apartments by elevator except for • The most famous feature of Casa Mila is the roof and the sculptured chimneys.
the noble floor, where Gaudí added a prominent interior • The chimneys have the look of helmeted Greek warriors or the imperial guards
staircase. in the Star Wars movies.
• There are also several tiled and stuccoed sculptured forms that house the
stairwells, giving the roof a playful feel that the rest of the building lacks. Casa Mila have a spectacular roof chimneys

PRATIBHA VREMA SIGN. SHEET NO.

ART NOUVAEU ARCHITECTURE 14ARCH021

B ARCH IIIrd YR – VI SEM
ACA AGRA
DATE
2

02-03-2017