DWG plan: Baker House de Alvar Aalto

Project description

Alvar Aalto designed the Baker House in 1946 as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the dormitory is located. He received his name in 1950, after MIT student Dean Everett Moore Baker was killed in a plane crash that year.

Technical sheet of the project

• Architect: Alvar Aalto
• Renovation Architect: Perry Dean Rogers Architects
• Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
• Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Year of construction: 1947-1948
• Materiality: Masonry with brick
• Typology: A large block of 6 floors designed as a student residence.
• Number of blocks: 1
• Number of floors: 6
• Types of rooms: 5
• Number of rooms: 232
• Number of rooms per floor: 38
• Facilities and services: Cafeteria and laundry, the rest is distributed in the faculty of MIT
• Total built area: 1600m²
• Total area of the land: 4500m²

Project overview