ARCHBURST_Ennis House

by Frank LLoyd Wright






















The Ennis House in LA is one of our favorites.























We specially like the idea of how the house conceptually grows from the design of the textile block applied to the walls to the whole living container as if in an organic process. Sure it was not thought or designed like this, but in this case we like the "wholeness" of the design.



















Probably the main reason we like this house so much, apart from the obvious architectural facts and context is how the film industry has completed the process of this organic growth.





As most of you might know, this house is featured in Blade Runner film, 1982.





What we are mostly interested in is how the film presents the house where detective Deckard lives as part of a bigger dwelling, not just as a stand alone building.





We believe this makes even stronger the idea of repetition, organic generation through reproduction of main element (the textile block) and timeless design (the house was built in 1924 and the film story happens around 2019)





It is interesting to think about which kind of "democratic" (or demographic) buildings we would be able to build if we started converting the classic houses from the Greatest Hero Architects in collective dwellings as opposed to unaffordable one-in-a-time ar(q)t objects...





If we calculate an estimated construction period of 2 years, this means that the Ennis Apartment Blocks featured in the film were started in 2017 or so...

Almost 100 years of time span should be enough for us to start thinking of quality collective dwellings for the 21st Century.

We just have to choose from the Masters Catalogue.