The Research On The Path Sections Of Seven Single Houses

The crazy scope and speed of constructions make China to be the biggest building site in the world. The basic architectural education misleads some architects into paying attention to the external visualize of buildings and the presentations of drawing, neglecting the primary concept of space in modernism. Space, time and the movement of people have many affinities. We discovered the method of path section from the works designed by Rem Koolhaas. It can describe the relationship of space, time and movement adequately . The paper tries to use this method to analyze the single houses designed by seven famous architects. The value of this method for the research on architectural space is needed to be discussed.According to the characters of different cases, they are analyzed in three different methods. The first method is used to analyze four cases. They are the Muller house designed by Adolf Loos, the Bernasconi house in Carona designed by Luigi Snozzi, the Vieira de castro house designed by Alvaro Siza, and the Turegano house designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. Four factors are chosen to describe these sections. They are the height of space, the length of path, the times of turnnings and the distance between turnnings. The second method also analyzes two cases by using four factors which is the height of space, the way of enclosing, the condition of interface, the times of turnnings and the distance between turnnings. The last method is used specially for Villa in the forest designed by Kazuyo Sejima. Then the paper divided these cases into several groups, which composed of two cases each, in order to discover the resemblance and the difference of cases by comparing them. At last, we can conclude that these cases can be divided into two kinds: one is the series-wound space with the alternant emergence of the node space, and the other is the assembled space with the well organized special interface.Being different from the traditional section, the path section has the characters of motility and uninfication. It has the correlation with people's movement and reflects the whole process of moving.