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    Villa dall’Ava is located outside Paris and was designed by OMA architects. It consists of three separate spaces - two apartments and a common living room - across three levels. The client wanted two separate apartments for the parents and daughter with panoramic views of the landscape and Paris from the rooftop swimming pool. The villa's design uses inexpensive materials like corrugated aluminum alongside expensive stone, which architect Rem Koolhaas uses to mock modernism. It has unconventional features like sloped floors and ceilings that provide unique views but can impact functionality.

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    Villa dall’Ava is located outside Paris and was designed by OMA architects. It consists of three separate spaces - two apartments and a common living room - across three levels. The client wanted two separate apartments for the parents and daughter with panoramic views of the landscape and Paris from the rooftop swimming pool. The villa's design uses inexpensive materials like corrugated aluminum alongside expensive stone, which architect Rem Koolhaas uses to mock modernism. It has unconventional features like sloped floors and ceilings that provide unique views but can impact functionality.

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    Villa dall’Ava is located outside Paris and was designed by OMA architects. It consists of three separate spaces - two apartments and a common living room - across three levels. The client wanted two separate apartments for the parents and daughter with panoramic views of the landscape and Paris from the rooftop swimming pool. The villa's design uses inexpensive materials like corrugated aluminum alongside expensive stone, which architect Rem Koolhaas uses to mock modernism. It has unconventional features like sloped floors and ceilings that provide unique views but can impact functionality.

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    Villa dallAva by OMA architects

    Villa dallAva is located in Saint-Clouds, which is a characteristic area with a typical landscape
    in the west of Paris. With a view over de Seine and the city of Paris. The villa is design by three
    architects of the OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, constructed by three different
    spaces, two apartments and a common living room. Also three different levels the ground floor,
    first floor and the rooftop with a swimming pool.

    The client wanted a glasshouse with a swimming pool on the roof and two separate
    "apartments" - one for the parents, the other for the daughter. They also wanted a panoramic
    view - from their swimming pool - of the surrounding landscape and the city of Paris.
    The site is like a big room, with a boundary made of greenery, garden walls and slopes. It is
    composed of three parts: a sloping garden, the main volume of the villa, the street level garage
    with access in a cavity.
    The house is conceived as a glass pavilion containing living and dining areas, with two
    hovering, perpendicular apartments shifted in opposite directions to exploit the view. They are
    joined by the swimming pool, which rests on the concrete structure encased by the glass
    pavilion.

    The design is made with cheap material such as corrugated aluminium panels combined with
    expensive material such as natural stone, which is also a significant of Rem Koolhaas. Which

    for him is a way of mocking modernism by using materials and building structures that are
    different of what is commonly esthetical accepted. Another way of mocking modernism is by
    using different building systems that can have practical disadvantages such as sloping floors or
    ceilings which you can also see in the design of Villa dallAva.

    Rem Koolhaas used unconventional ideas in its earlier projects, and is still using his ideas
    nowadays. But because of that his design can turn out to be less functional. And for certain
    spaces it can become an obstacle. The design of De Kunsthall a art gallery he designed in
    Rotterdam got a lot of critic because one of the main connection floors from one space to
    another space was a sloping floor. It is quiet a sloping floor with can be very unpractical for a
    certain visiting public. And the question is if that is acceptable for a space that should be
    accessible for everyone who wants to visit a art gallery.
    First I wasnt sure why I choose this marquette and why exactly I liked it. I found it interesting
    that these marquettes were made in a simple way out of some cardbord and paper.
    Also I think it is nice to see several designs for one house. Because it makes me think of the
    research the architect went through and you can wonder what he was thinking while he was
    working on this project.
    But what for me was more interesting, was that when I started my research I saw the actual
    pictures of the house of which we saw in the NAI.

    I was surprised of the outcome of the project, I didnt realise the design was really used and
    I was also surprised that the marquette was build in 1991. The marquette seemed to me to come
    from an earlier time period, while the actually villa didnt seem like that.
    I started to wonder about villa dallava and its architects; how it would be to live there and
    who would live there but especially why it looked the way it did and why did it become such a
    famous and appreciated building. What makes this building so special that when people speak
    about this apartment they say the person that lives there is privileged to live there.
    Personally when I look at the pictures I get a bit confused, when I look at the pictures and see
    the use of aluminium panels its reminds me of cheap industrial building that I saw before many
    times in Holland.
    I think it is nice that Rem Koolhaas wants to criticize modernism. It adds something that is
    unique to the villa. Still when I look at the Villa it is not visually very appealing to me at first
    sight. After having another look it start to have its own charm and it actually start to look more
    pleasant. Maybe eventually I will end up liking Villa DallAva.

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