-by Frank Lloyd Wright

INTRODUCTION
• Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home
and school in the desert from 1937 until his death in 1959 at
the age of 91. Today it is the main campus of the Frank Lloyd
Wright School of Architecture and houses the Frank Lloyd
Wright Foundation.
• The complex drew its name from Wright's summer home,
Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. CASE STUDY

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• Climate – dry and arid weather with a strong breeze.
• Temperature : over the course of a year, the temperature typically
varies from 6°c to 40°c and is rarely below 2°cor above 43°c.
• Avg. rainfall is below 100mm.
• Thunderstorms are the most severe precipitation observed during
45% of those days with precipitation.
• Solar power plant started in 2012 of 250 KW which reduce 50% of
electricity bills to generate 500 MWH per year.

• Campus Area : 251 Hectares/620 Acres

• Student strength: 20
• Faculty Strength: 20
• Offers only Masters program of 2-3 years.
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 CONCEPT
From the architect," Arizona needs its own
architecture… Arizona’s long, low, sweeping lines,
uptilting planes. Surface patterned after such
abstraction in line and color as find “realism” in the
patterns of the rattlesnake, the Gila monster, the
chameleon, and the saguaro, cholla or stag horn – or is
it the other way around—are inspiration enough.”

Taliesin West was built to coexist in harmony with its desert environment, using local
materials such as rocks and sand in the design of the structure and substance of the
desert that surrounds the entire complex by its structural diversity are combining into a
single complete.

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CABARET THEATRE POOLS

WASHROOM

LIVING QUARTERS KITCHEN

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Translucent canvas to act as a roof
A Natural light also played a major part in
later replaced by plastic because of
the intense wear from the Arizona sun T the design

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S Someone sitting in the back row can
Wright designed all the furniture
hear the lightest whisper from speaker
on stage.
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Redwood timber was used for Rocks , desert sand and concrete
the ceiling beams and frames. walls

White tarps used to cover the Steel and glass to make it more
roof and transformed into diffuse durable construction
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• NATURAL LIGHT AND • COLD AND DRY WEATHER
VENTILATION • VERY DIFFICULT TO
• MOSTLY USED LOCALLY PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL
FOUND MATERIALS DESIGN
• FACILITY OF
APARTMENTS FOR BOTH
TEACHERS AND
STUDENTS

STRENGTH WEAKNESS

OPPORTUNITY THREAT

• AREA AVAILABLE • THUNDERSTORMS

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