Visit Richard Neutra’s never built Omega house in 3D

This 3D model is as close as you can get to the real thing, as the Omega House is one of the few Case Study Houses that was never built.

Presented early in the case study program of Arts & Architecture magazine in 1945, it presents one of the most innovative design concepts in the series, one you can now explore in your browser.

This model has been showcased on Archdaily.

In 1945, Omega House was a revelation, a modest family house turned inside out; it offered a cruciform plan extrovertly oriented to the brightly lit Southern Californian landscape.

The house, as Time wrote about Neutra’s architecture, merges “clean lines, common-sense convenience and liberating openness of style with the warm overtones of home.” On one arm of the cross is a demonstrative, high-ceiling living space for entertaining that opens onto a large paved outdoor area, effectively bringing the outdoors in. There’s the secluded master bedroom at the end of the next arm, and then an enclosed space for smaller bedrooms (where they enter from the garden via the shower cubicle!). The final arm contains the kitchen and spaces for informal dining.

The plan allowed for a small house to express sophisticated splits between public and private, adult and child, day and night, activity and relaxation.