FINAL TEST

Full name : Ana Elizabeth Coronel Chimoy

Career : Architecture Date: 02/11/21
1. Match the pictures with the statements above (6 marks).
AMAZING BUILDINGS
Longaberger Home Office, Ohio, USA, Crooked House, Sopot, Poland, 'That
Roundhouse', Wales, The Headington Shark, UK, Dancing House, Prague, Czech
Republic
a. It is a seven storey head office of the Longaberger Company……………………………………4
b. It’s a three storey building inspired by Jan Marcin Szancer‘s fairytale illustrations and the art of Per
Dahlberg……………………………………………………………………………………………………5
c. The unusual shape of this building was inspired by the dancing form of Ginger Rogers and Fred
Astaire……………………………………………………………………………………………………………3
d. It's become the country's most photographed building…………………………………………………..5
e. It is in a residential street……………………………………………………………………………………..2
f. It’s made of wood, a straw insulated turf roof and recycled materials…………………………………….1
h. It was created by sculptor John Buckley and installed at the request of owner Bill Heine in 1986……2
i. It relies on solar power and a wind turbine for electricity, and has a compost loo……………………….1
j. It was designed to be a political statement to reflect the times…………………………………………….3

1. That roundhouse 2. The heandington shark

Dancing House Longaber homenaje office

3. 4.

Crooked House
5.
Strange Architecture
2. Match the depicted buildings with the corresponding descriptions. (6 marks)
3) What kind of weird buildings you’ve already seen in your life and where? (4
marks)
4) How you’d like your future home (house or apartment) to be once designed
(both internally and from the outside).(4 marks)
1 2
4
5
What looks like left-over boulders from the Stone Age is
actually a house. Casa do Penedo or the 'House of Stone', was
built in 1974 with four different boulders. The Portuguese
getaway has no electricity so the homeowners use candlelight
to see when indoors. That said, the house boasts a cozy
fireplace, a swimming pool carved into stone and logs for
stairs. 6
The original idea of these cubic houses came about
in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these
cubic houses that were built in Helmond.
The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top
of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic
houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he
tries to create a forest by each cube representing an
abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes
a forest.
This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, represents
one of the pioneer projects behind the revitalization of
downtown. The people of Kansas City were asked to help
pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City.
Those titles were included as ‘bookbindings’ in the
innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to
inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library. 5 architecture. The "Dog" building houses the town's
3
WonderWorks is an entertainment
center focused on science exhibits
with five locations in the United
States. The company's slogan is "Let
Your Imagination Run Wild". The
exhibits are housed in a themed
building designed by architect Terry
Nicholson, looking as if it were
picked up by severe weather and
dropped upside down on an
existingbuilding. 4
The “Crooked House” is an unusual piece of
architecture located on Monte Cassino
Street in Sopot, Poland. Completed in 2004,
the building was designed by Szotyńscy &
Zaleski who were inspired by the fairytale
illustrations and drawings of Jan Marcin
Szancer and Per Dahlberg as well as designs
by Antonio Gaudi. The magical effect draws
many visitors to the property which
housesrestaurants, cafés and shops. 1
2
A trend that started and continues to this day in
town Waikato in New Zealand is the use of old,
discarded, corrugated iron to create "works of art".
Perhaps the most significant of these are the
"Sheep" and "Dog"buildings on Main Road, Tirau.
Housing a wool and craftstore the "Sheep" building
would be considered a great example of mimetic
Information Center. 3
3. What kind of weird buildings you’ve already seen in your life and where? (4 marks)
In the many trips that I have made in Lima, I have come across quite a few conceptual buildings, for
example; the cultural building of literature, its construction was molded to the form of books stacked
interspersed, which makes it quite interesting at first glance. Another example, already international, was
when you can analyze a skyscraper in the shape of a guitar, based on the functionality of the building,
which in this case would be a cultural music center.

4.How you’d like your future home (house or apartment) to be once designed (both internally and
from the outside).(4 marks)

My ideal home would have a large garden where I could grow all kinds of flowers and shrubs. In addition,
the porch must be wide, so that multiple people can enter the building. The pillars of preference would
put a circular section, since my facade would have slopes at the top of the roof, for when it rains.

Once inside the house, there will be a welcoming hall, with furniture that suits the space, then we would
find the living room, where there would be large sofas with their respective coffee table, then the dining
room would follow, which would have a large shelf to store crockery and multiple collectibles.

At the end of the corridor, there would be the kitchen, whose distribution would be in a U, and in the
middle a large island with the multiple inputs that are needed for cooking. This in turn leads to an interior
terrace, where we can cool off thanks to the large pool that will be located there.

Last but not least, the bedrooms that this house would have would be five, which would be distributed
thanks to a hall, which would fulfill double functionality, which would also be where the whole family
converges, and they can all be gathered there .