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The house began as a case study house and was origi- nally built with a hybrid concept of living and working space. In their proposal, Charles and Ray Eames men- tioned that the house they designed would be a married couple who were essentially apartment dwellers working in design and graphic arts, and who wanted a home that would make no demands for itself, but would instead serve as a background for “life in work”, with nature as a “shock absorber”. They emphasized on maintaining the meadow in which the house is built on, using prefabri- cated materials to construct the whole house. They moved into the Eames house on 24th December, 1949, and lived there for the rest of their lives. EAMES HOUSE Charles and Ray Eames Pacific Palisades neighborhood, Los Angeles, California, 1949 2550 square feet Eames House today studio open to living room living room utility room kitchen dining room dark room bath bath bath bedroom dressing room bedroom storage deck open to studio Upper Plan Lower Plan Residential Space Studio Space Plans Section Elevations Perspective Conceptual Sketch Bibliography Eames House. (n.d.). Retrieved from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eames_house Eames House. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://docomomo-us.org/register/fiche/eames_house Eames House: A Case Study. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bms29/eames%20house.htm History of the House. (n.d.). Retrieved from Eames Foundation: http://www.eamesfoundation.org/history.html Leupen, B. (1993). Design and Analysis. Rotterdam: 010. Neuhart, M., & Neuhart, J. (1994). Eames House. New York: St. Martin's Press. Lily Dewi Mulyadi Tan ARCH211 W10
