Steel House, By Bruno
Steel Fortress:
Steel House by the artist Robert Bruno. The house build near the city of
The house is a steel cave. Instead of scratching little pieces of stone to enlarge your cave, Robert Bruno welds more steel plates onto his existing dome-structure. While most architecture today is based on the (steel, concrete or wood) frame, Bruno builds his house of domes. The folded, load bearing surfaces so many architects aspire, are here build – by hand.
It weights about 110 tons, Bruno calculated. It is tempting to think with rising steel prices the ‘unbuilt’ value – the actual material – could exceed the value of the project as a piece of art. 110 tons of steel however equals even with today’s price only about 30.000 dollars.
The idea for the house started, the artist says, after he made a big steel sculpture and thought it would be nice to be able to actually walk through it. Twenty-eight years later this is the result. It has something organic and machine-like, the artist says.
The form of the house evolves from four ‘columns’, like a tree from a stem, and develops with a focus on the windows, on the view. The arched spaces do not seem that practical or flexible… but functionality isn’t everything, and it still more spacious than most houses.
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