"La casa y el porche": el porche como recursos arquitectónicos en la obra de Marcel Breuer. Cinco casos de estudio

Abstract

The main objective of the following analysis is focused basically in the interest of knowing, save, diffuse, study and analyze exhaustively the use of the porch in the modern living places. Since it has become an architectural option with a diversity of formals, functional and technological values. This study made a priority focus on the porch as an organizer and articulating space, analyzing different processes graphics and theorist that allowed me to study it, understanding and appreciating from different points of view. For this purpose I have chosen five houses made by Marcel Breuer, whose attribute was the porches, within these are: the House for an athlete Berlin, 1931; Breuer II USA Massachusetts House, 1939; Robinson House, Massachusetts USA, 1946; Wise House, USA, Massachusetts, 1963; Stillman II House, Connecticut, 1965, exemplaries in which I can note that the porch is a differential and obvious elementary and not only linking spaces among themselves; but these become spatial projections, on arrivals and transition areas, shelters and in viewpoints or balconies getting a direct connection with the external environment. The methodology used for the analysis of the housing part of the identification of each architectural element on the site and the place, location and implementation, focusing into the special distribution and linkage of each one with the porches pretending to determine certain parameters of evaluation to let us understand the porch like an intermedium element between the inner and outer area housing and at the same time determine the influence or the climate.