The Bauhaus Building by Walter Gropius

            Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in Weimar (Germany), by Walter Gropius. The school moved to Dessau in 1925 and disbanded in 1933 in Berlin. With the relocation Bauhaus, Walter Gropius had the opportunity of creating his own building which would be built in the most efficient way for the teachers and students to develop their own Bauhaus designs. The Bauhaus Building designed by Walter Gropius opened its doors in 1926. The building took advantages of new industrial materials like reinforced concrete, rolled steel and plate glass in large sizes. Iron and concrete structure forms the skeleton. In order to make building look lighter with an optical illusion, walls had a base of rough plaster and grey. Inside the building rooms were colored in different colors. Both sides of the school are covered with big windows made out of steel. Gropius has used a lot of light effects and optical illusions, while designing the building in order to create an environment for the people who worked and studied in it. The total are for construction was 113,400 sq. ft. However, the building itself contains approximately 250,600 sq. ft. As Bauhaus adopted in their style “Form follows function”, the building itself also obeys to the rule and follow its function.

           The Bauhaus building in Dessau is a beautiful design by the founder of the school Walter Gropius. Since Bauhaus had many rules about geometry – symmetry – typography and form/function I am willing to investigate the interior design of the building. Bauhaus was a school, which had many different art and design branches in it – a research on the classroom placement inside the building can serve some interesting information. Big windows and the possible natural lighting inside create the feeling of motivation and dedication. A research on the products that are produced through-out the time while the school was located in that building can give away lot of information about the feelings and concepts that the building itself brings.

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