MODULORA

Client / Open House Geneva
Materials / plywood, solid spruce
Design / Rahbaran Hürzeler Architekten

In the Modulora Prototype, a central cylinder connects four rectangular spaces of different proportions and function and leaves the rest to the landscape. The cylinder allows doors to slide and open or close the spaces. The interior is either closed to the outside and the four spaces are revealed, or it is open and one can only pass through it without seeing inner spaces.
It is up to the visitor to experiment with the possibilities that develop around this « center », each room being devoted to a different relationship between body and space. One thinks standing up, communicates sitting down, relaxes when leaning back, dreams lying down. In response to the measurements established by Le Corbusier, the spaces correspond to the average female measurements adapted to these positions, hence the name given to the prototype, Modulora.