Starck Great Idea No.10

Starck Great Idea No.10 - More Honest and More Human



“The Starck House (3 Suisses) [1994] is the best architecture I ever made, definitely the most advanced architecture. It doesn't look like something by Jean Nouvel or Zaha Hadid - it looks a little classic for the most advanced prototype of the modern house. This is because sometimes the modernity is not in the design, but somewhere else, and it's in the "somewhere else" that it's interesting.”

- Philippe Starck, 1997




" ..... you can make a cheap wood house with a strong image. This was intended to be the best design you can get by mail order; it was a solution to oblige the big companies to change their designs."

- Philippe Starck, 1997



" .... this house is not architecture but political action, not about architecture but about people. Now I am only interested in doing something like that. The main idea was just to make it different and more honest and more human ..... "

- Philippe Starck, 1997




"When you have a good idea, try in all ways to make the best things for the most people possible. If you succeed, that means the idea was good. Popular is elegant, and rare is vulgar."

- Philippe Starck, 1997




Starck House, (3 Suisses) 1994 - Timber House



The wooden box contains the general plan of the house and its components on a scale of 1:50, with and without canopy, with additional 150 m² floor space (ground floor, first floor, roof, two sections and all four facades), detailed plans on a scale of 1:50 for the ground woodwork, principles of woodworking (beams and joists, insulation, flooring and parquet), roofing woodwork, exterior construction work (windows on the four facades and plans for electrical wiring, heating and plumbing), a site checklist, a video showing the various stages of construction, commented by Philippe Starck, a step-by-step site management notebook, a blank notebook for the client's own comments, a hammer to symbolize the labour of building a house and a French flag for the topping out ceremony. Designer Patrick Bouchain and architects L. Juliene and J.M. Mandon drew up the plans for the house, which can be customized. Needless to say, implementation of the project calls for skilled workers, official planning permission and adaptation to the site and local conditions.



The total surface of the House is 138 m².
On the first floor, there is: - one living-room 52 m² - one bedroom 13 m² - one kitchen 13 m² - one bathroom 4 m².
On the second floor, there is: - two bedrooms (14 + 14 m²) - one study room 11 m² - one bathroom 8 m² - one "buanderie" in French 3 m² - hallway 4 m² - toilet 2 m²


"Tomorrow there will be less"

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