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Hill House (1902 to 1903 ) Interior

Architect : Charles Rennie Mackintosh • Mackintosh used different materials, colours, and lighting, when necessary to perform a
Location : Helensburgh, Scotland full experiential transition from one point to another .
Construction System : Bearing masonry • All in such an elegant and well planned manner, that with the absence of one the other
Climate : Temperate would mar.
Context : Rural or suburban • Delicately stenciled interior decoration using designs of roses, thistles & other plants
Style : Art Nouveau creates the feel of an indoor garden enhanced by clever use of abundant natural light
Notes : Asymmetrical romantic massing. provided by the open site, overlooking the Firth of Clyde.
• The stylish fittings & furniture, include Mackintosh’s famous ladder black chairs.
Design • Beautiful decorative coloured glass & tiles are used throughtout.

Bedroom of the Hill house Trademark motifs used in the Hill Dining room of Hill
House House
Exterior
Ground Floor Plan First Floor Plan • The uniform and grayish exterior treatment of the building blends with in with the cold
cloud sky of Scotland.
•The narrow building stretches west to east with an entrance off the road
• The completely asymmetrical construction forms different roof level and shapes, and also
to the west, so that all major rooms face south to the view of the estuary.
records Mackintosh’s appreciation for A.W.N. pugin’s picturesque utility where the exterior
•At the eastern end of these major rooms a wing extends north, with
contour evolves from the interior planning.
rooms for the kitchen and services and the children.
• The minimum decoration, heavy walls, and rectangular and square windows express a
•Out of these simple wings volumes extend, a curving stair volume to the
strong, sober construction.
north, a sunny drawing room bay to the south, a curved bay for the
• The exterior qualities of the building are nearly the opposite of the warm, exotic, carefully
bedroom, compositional extrusions in the simple major volumes which
decorated and smooth interior.
focus views and bring in light.
• Again, Mackintosh relates to Pugin’s theory by minimizing exterior decoration to emphasize
•Hill House, the largest and finest of Mackintosh's domestic buildings,
the interior design: the transition from outside world into a safe, fantastic inside space.
occupies a hillside side that looks out over the Clyde estuary, and is
• Paint analysis of the harling on the exterior shows that it might have been left as an
surrounded by grounds meticulously landscaped by Mackintosh, who
unpainted pale grey initially
went to the extent of instructing that the trees be clipped according to his
•The house is load bearing stone masonry. The local codes discouraged brick masonry, as it
manner of drawing them.
would have lowered the standard of construction in the wealthy community. Over the stone
• Built from local sandstone and rough-cast rendered, the house bears
is applied a mixture of cement and crushed pebbles. This gives added protection against
Second Floor Plan the image of Scottish baronial traditions.
infiltration of the elements
Material
• Largely snecked rubble, with brick used
for the gable and the upper parts of the
chimneys.
• The use of stone is said to have been a
condition of the feu. The quarry has not
so far been identified. It is a porous red
sandstone.
•It has not always been laid correctly,
which has caused it to be weakened by
water ingress.
• Mackintosh chose Ballachulish slates for
ELEVATION OF THE HILL HOUSE Front view of the grayish exterior Back view of the grayish exterior View of doorway
the roof.

ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTURE


Mahak Gupta Sign Sheet No
14 arch 014 2
B.arch 3 YEAR Date
A.C.A, Agra 20/03/17

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