Gehry | Residence Floor Plan

The wrapper contains the new, avant-garde public spaces.

Gehry famously placed the kitchen at the heart of the plan. In the late 1970s, kitchens were often relegated to the back of the house. Gehry, acknowledging the kitchen as the social hub of the family, positioned it centrally. The plan shows this space spilling out into the new additions, blurring the line between cooking, dining, and living.

The floor plan of the Gehry Residence is a complex and intriguing layout that reflects the architect's experimental approach to design. The house has a total living area of approximately 2,200 square feet and sits on a 1/4-acre lot. gehry residence floor plan

Note: The Gehry Residence remains a private home. While public blueprints are available in architectural monographs like "Gehry, Frank: The Complete Works," the house is not open to the public. However, its influence can be seen in every deconstructivist building that followed.

Gehry didn't demolish the old house. He wrapped it. The new floor plan is a study of collision—old meets new, straight meets angled, private meets public. The wrapper contains the new, avant-garde public spaces

The floor of the new kitchen and dining area is made of black asphalt. This design choice brings the material of the driveway into the house. It blurs the line between the interior floor plan and the outdoor streetscape. Stripping to the Studs

+--------------------------------------------------------+ | NEW EXTENSION SHELL | | +--------------------------------------------------+ | | | ORIGINAL HOUSE | | | | | | | | [Traditional Rooms Turned Interior Spaces] | | | | | | | +--------------------------------------------------+ | | | | [New Intertwined Spaces: Kitchen, Dining, Asphalt] | +--------------------------------------------------------+ Gehry, acknowledging the kitchen as the social hub

Unlike the traditional wood flooring of the old house, the kitchen floor is paved with asphalt, intentionally blurring the line between the outdoor streetscape and the indoor domestic space.

In a typical suburban home, the front door leads directly into a hallway or living room. Gehry shifted the entrance to the side, forcing visitors to enter through the new corrugated metal extension. You do not enter the house; you enter the gap between the old house and the new shell. 2. The Kitchen and Dining Wrap

To understand the genius, you first need the canvas. The original structure was a 1920s Dutch Colonial bungalow—a classic, symmetrical box with a pitched roof and a predictable layout: