Rem Koolhaas's design centres around the needs of its disabled owner, ensuring that it not only functions as a house but as the disabled owners whole world. Koolhaas states that he "interpreted the house as an extension of everything [the wheel-chair bound owner] could still do, rather than compensate for everything he could no longer do". Thus, it is the complications within Koolhaas's design that created a house that functions as a surprising and varied universe for his disabled client.
*Charlotte Ellis, "Koolhaas in Bordeaux", Architectural Review 203 (1998):85.
Juan Antonia Cortes, "OMA Rem Koolhaas 1996-2006", Croquis 131-132 (2006):75.
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