Villa Mairea Drawings

Final Model- Villa Mairea

This is our groups model of the Villa Mairea at scale 1:100. We used balsa wood and white card. We tried to represent the duality of natural and man-made materials in the model by using the white card to represent all artificial materials such as brick, render and tiles and the more natural materials such as timber and stone, by using balsa wood. This allowed us to see how cleverly Aalto interweaves the two in order to achieve a strong relationship with the natural environment but also to narrate the social and domestic uses of the house. We also tried to highlight this relationshop through our representation of the timber columns and the trees of the surrounding forest which we made identical. This is to emphasise Aalto's naturalistic approach and the way in which he tried to blur the boundary between the natural landscape and this man-made.

Villa Mairea Model Progress