Villa Can Feliz, Jorn Utzon

Designed as a house for himself, Utzon's secluded villa in Mallorca overlooks the ocean from a sloping site. Jorn Utzon is a danish architect whom is most notable for winning the 1957 competition of designing Sydney's opera house.
The Villa Can Feliz house captures light with a large open courtyard and ceiling to floor windows.

The building is built as a split level so as to embrace the slope of the site on which it sits on, thus harnessing a better visual fitting to its surrounding terrain and environment. The buildings design consists of singular shape, a square. The building is constructed predominately out of stone thus providing large load bearing walls.

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Poche Rendering

Above are the Poche drawings of Jorn Utzon's, Villa Can Feliz building. The floor plan is drawn 1:100 scale. I chose to draw the floor plan using water proof felt tip and use water colour for the floor plan as it is a large scaled drawing water colour can be applied very easy and quickly as it covers great surfaces with little effort due to the aid of water. With the water colour i have focused on applying dark areas where there are no windows or no points of light entry and thus lighter areas proving to be areas of light entry into the building, thus proving as to why the hall ways are dark.

i have drawn the Elevation 1:100 scale. I have drawn it using charcoal, as it is a dark coloured material shading of the elevation proves to be a simple task by the simple application of weight level on the charcoal to achieve the desired shade, tone.

The two sections are drawn 1:200 scale. Both line work and shading was achieved through the us of pencil.

Parti Diagrams

Drawing Parti diagrams allows us a greater insight and understanding about the building being assessed. Parti diagrams each fcus on a different aspect of the building. These aspects can vary to person drawing them personal opinion on as to what certain key aspects and features they are trying to understand or trying to reach by the building or building to be built. The above parti's focus on Gemoetry, Structure, Circulation, Project and Enclosure of Jorn Utzon's Villa Can Feliz building.

Final Model

Above: The raised platform and constructed plateau in Utzon’s architecture often appear as a Cartesian plan, a plane that is completely flat, with a grid geometry (square), singular material texture and color, and with visual continuity stretching to infinite space.


Above: Slope of the site is able to be seen in this photograph.


Above: My partner and i flet that the section through the curved ceiling was one of the most important feature that the building had to offer, and too would prove to be an interesting task to achieve and challenge ourselves.

Above: The section cut through the model can be seen through this photograph taken from directly above the model.

Above: Allows us to see that Jorn Utzon designed the buildings wall structures around the views which the site it has been placed on has to offer, reducing the use of thick, dense tall walls, rather applying glass curtain walls, and few mullions thus allowing one to apreciate the views and allowing one to trace the view horizontaly and undisturbed.