GOOGIE ARCHITECTURE.pptx

ABOUT GOOGIE ARCHOTECTURE

1. GOOGIE ARCHITECTURE (1945-early 1970s) SUBMITTED BY: ANAMIKA PATIL KHYATI GARDE

2. INTRODUCTION Googie architecture is influenced by car culture, jets, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age.GOOGIE architecture originated in southern California in the 1950s. Googie, comes from the long-gone Googies Coffee Shop designed by the great John Lautner in 1949. As the story goes, Googie got its name when the architecture critic Douglas Haskell was driving around Los Angeles researching a story about all the new splashy coffee shops he spied in the city. He saw Googies, a West Hollywood coffee shop with a bold red roof, and decided to name the style after it.

3. Googie describes a futuristic, often flashy, building style that evolved in the United States during the 1950s. Often used for restaurants, motels, bowling alleys, and assorted roadside businesses, Googie architecture was designed to attract customers. Add a footer 3 Materials: The materials included glass blocks, large sheets of glass, asbestos, plywood and plastic. Steel was used as a design element in addition to being used for support.

4. Features: F eatures of Googie include upswept roofs curvaceous, geometric shapes as well as glass used as design, not just to serve a function. The elements of Googie design included: Upswept roofs Cantilevered ceilings Domed roofs Glass as a design element Boomerang and amoeba shapes Atomic shapes based on the atomic model Starbursts Buildings resembling spacecraft Exposed steel beams Add a footer 4

5. Starbursts are an ornament that is common with the Googie style, perhaps the most notable example of the starburst appears on the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign, which has now become famous. BOOMERANG SHAPE The boomerang shape was another design element that captured movement. It was used structurally in place of a pillar or aesthetically as a stylized arrow. Hess writes that the boomerang was a stylistic rendering of a directional energy field R oofs sloping AT AN UPWARD ANGLE Many Googie style coffee shops, and other structures, have a roof that appears to be 2⁄3 of an inverted obtuse triangle. A great example of this is the famous, but now closed, Johnie's Coffee Shop on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Add a footer 5 STARBURsTS

6. BUILT IN 1957. The Caribbean Motel is an historic motel located in Wildwood Crest, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States,[3] in an area now known as the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic Dist. The first motel to use the full-size plastic palm trees that now adorn most of the motels in theAREA. Incorporating such elements as a crescent- shaped pool, a "levitating ramp", and canted glass walls, Individual climate control in each room, Free parking for one car per unit. All rooms have microwave and refrigerator. All kitchenettes and most other rooms have in-room coffee maker. “Cabana” lounge for socializing and relaxing in style. with plasma TV and Bose sound system. Caribbean Kitchen serving a special menu for special occassions! CARIBBEAN MOTEL Add a footer 6

7. ARCHITECTURE Two-story motel with many details typical of this era in Wildwood motel construction. • Features such at the levitating ramp and lean in/lean out glass walls of the second-floor lounge demonstrate the time's preoccupation with "futuristic" effects, while the fake palm trees and C-shaped pool are examples of the motels' pursuit of exotic vacation themes. • The design shows a particularly creative use of neon and other night lighting—angular roof moldings are embedded with multicolored lights. • Extensively-used plate glass emphasizes the era's design preoccupation with making ambiguous distinctions between inside and outside. The motel rooms have frame construction with cinderblock walls. 4. Structural system, framing: Wood framing with cement block walls; deck supported by steel columns; ramp supported by steel braces discreetly connected to triangular steel columns—which gives the ramp the illusion of floating. The ramp marks a graceful sweep from the second-floor deck to the inner court. The inside courtyard on the first and second floors are lined with 6' wide open porches. The second floor porch has a simple, open iron railing, with three horizontal rails, and vertical posts spaced several feet apart. The motel rooms have plate-glass windows which comprise the entire wall facing the inner court. The lower portion of these windows were originally louvered to allow for air circulation, but have now been covered with siding. Flat built-up roof, recently renovated with rubberized covering. Angled roof moldings with embedded lights described above. At night the Caribbean takes on an a different dimension because of the main sign, the multi-colored lights embedded in the roof and porch moldings, the glow of the pool. There are no interior halls in which to house stairways; the open stairways are along the motels exterior. A "levitating" concrete ramp is used in lieu of a stairway to access the second floor of the motel from the pool area. The floors are of 2' x 12' plywood boards. 4. Wall and ceiling finish: Cinderblock walls have a stippled plaster finish. Bathrooms have original tiles in four color schemes. 5. Decorative features: The motel's "decorative" distinctiveness lies in its external details; the room interiors are intentionally sparse or unornamented. Add a footer 7

8. Add a footer 8 CARIBBEAN MOTEL PLAN

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10. Add a footer SPACE NEEDLE A 1962 construction of seattles landmark. The architecture of the Space Needle is the result of a compromise between the designs of two men, Edward E. Carlson and John Graham a 14,400 square foot (1337.8 square meter) site WITH The first step was to dig a hole 30 feet (9 meters) deep and 120 feet (36.6 meters) across into which the building’s foundation could be poured. This concrete pour would be the largest attempted in the West to that date: over the course of an entire day, a total of 467 cement trucks worked to fill the gaping hole. The structure comprises a steel tripod, with each of the three legs pinched just above the middle of their height. T he height of structure is 184m. The Space Needle has an observation deck at 520 ft (160 m) [ Visitors can reach the top of the Space Needle by elevators The trip takes 41 seconds 2 restaurants at the height of 150m. The main stairwell has 848 steps from the basement to the top of the observation deck.

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13. Add a footer 13 THEME BUILDING, LAX The Theme BUILDING is an iconic MODERNIST STRUCTURE at Los Angeles International AIRPORT(LAX). The initial design was created by James Langenheim, of Pereira & Luckman, subsequently taken to fruition by a team of architects and engineers headed by William Pereira and Charles Luckman, that also included Paul Williams and Welton Becket. The distinctive white building resembles a FLYING SAUCER that has landed on its four legs. The Theme Building is made up of two parabolic arches created by topping four steel-reinforced concrete legs extending approximately 15 feet above the ground with hollow stucco -covered steel trusses . When it first opened, it contained a restaurant in the central part of the structure and an observation deck above it. Families would come to eat dinner together and gaze at the 360 degree view of Los Angeles. After dinner, they could go up to the observation deck and watch planes take off and land. A screen wall of decorative concrete block surrounds the building.

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15. Add a footer 15 CHEMOSPHERE One of the most modern buildings of it’s time, the Chemosphere by architect John Lautner, is praised for it’s unique design and for it’s ingenious solution to the problem of building on a lot with a dramatic angled slope of 45 degrees, making construction nearly impossible. However, for the Chemosphere Lautner took the daunting task and engineered a new method for a home to be built. He decided the home should be a one story, octagon house, built on a 30 feet high concrete pole which is supported by a pedestal buried in the earth. This approach reduced the building cost to almost half of the conventional solution of building retaining walls. This method also left the natural surroundings untouched and unspoiled.

16. Add a footer 16 The structure of the Chemosphere is made of steel, timber and the roof is supported by curved frames of laminated wood. The perimeter of the house is lined with windows to provide stunning views of the surroundings. The transition to the outside is made through the edge detail. This edge zone, while accommodating storage, a seat and at one point a small terrace, has also a structural function. The interior is divided into several designated spaces. The northern side facing the views contains the public spaces such as the  living room, kitchen and dining area, while the side facing the hills contains four bedrooms and bathrooms. At the center of the house, there’s a spectacular fireplace, surrounded by an exposed brick wall and a skylight above, to let the daylight flow in freely. The upper structure is constructed with laminated beams subjected to a compression ring in the central steel upper platform deck and all eight arms rests on steel on a single supporting concrete pillar diameter of 6 meters and height 8.7.

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