The Dancing House “Your best work is your expression of yourself.” -frank gehry Introduction Those were the words the renowed creative architect who designed the world’s creative house hotel ‘ The Dancing House’. What differs this hotel with the other hotel is the structure of the hotel. Lets Spaces Structure Materials take a look on this game changing design that captures the eyes of everyone. -the first volume of -glass tower has building with sur- the tower is a glass concrete structure face of 5824m^2 tower with a tower supported with se- -steel juts out and hangs ries of inclined col- on to the concrete umns from ground -prefabricated con- tower level creating porti- crete panels -glass tower is sup- co and finishes at -glass the end of the ported with incline -plaster columns that building. marks the entrance -tower is closed with Building parallel to -the second vol- double curtain wall river ume, which is the 3 with interior wall sturdy pillars that consisting of re- -99 concrete panels are characterized tracted wall and ex- with different by the undulating terior one with glass shape and dimen- modulation of its supported by steel sion façade frame that is sepa- rated by the main -the incoming and body of the building Sculpture of medu- outgoing windows sa on rooftop The history and concept of the are distributed non -support of steel project linearly displays tri structure is fixed to --metal tubes cov- dimensionality the structure of the ered with stainless With the amount of almost unlimited fund for building and T- steel the project and providing complete artistic free- -sinuous moulding sections are con- dom, the Dutch bank , Nationale-Netherlanden of its façade makes nected to create invited the famous French architect Jean it look more ambig- hollow profile sec- Nouvel who turned down the project but then uous with neigh- tions Frank Gehry accepted the invitation even bouring buildings though he was their second choice. The project -solid cylindrical was designed successfully by Frank Gehry and -twisted façade is concrete volume V.Milunic even though the surface area was lim- simple floor with joins with steel and ited, 491m^2. conventional con- glass structure The design was made adapting the concept of nection yin and yang, that is the contrast between static and dynamic figures. This can be seen through the panels square shape like pillow and a tower Interior designer-Eva Jiřičná. in a form of geyser. Since the design portrays Awards- the design category award from the prestigious American Time magazine 1996 -featuring on a gold 2,000 Czech koruna coin -completes a series called “Ten Centuries of Architec ture”. Location– center of Prague, Czech Republic Design- imitates the aerodynamic form of planes and sports cars that is used to design French aircraft. both yin and yang, it also reflects masculinism and feminism. That results the name of the Architects building, The Dancing House after the name of the famous dancers Ginger and Fred. The mas- Name-frank gehry and v.mulinic culine part of the building is seen through the Born-8 Feb and 3 March solid tower supported by three sturdy pillar and the feminine part is the glass tower with 8 col- Nationality-Canada and Czech republic umns at its base. The whole design shows the de- Project– The Dancing House constructivism and unusual form of design that DEVENDRAN A/L RAMESH A18BE0030 1SBEQ Ts.Dr SYAMSUL HENDRA BIN MAHMUD .