ArchiEl.

Wednesday, March 24

The end.

Ok this should be my last post... a little bit sad really. My Cabin(as shown in the diagrams): Is an environmental filter:

Has limited and specially placed windows. It is framing the views. The design decides what can/ can not be seen.
The design is a reaction to the site. The corner of the cliff/ flat ground is the basis of it's form.
My cabin is built close in to the side of the cliff, and is made of concrete walls. It is well protected from the elements.
There are indoor outdoor elements to my cabin, as you have to pass outdoors from the study to the main house. The actual outdoor spaces are also sheltered from most sides, either underneath other parts of the building, or close in-between the sides of the cliff and the cabin.

Is a container of human activity:

The different elements of my house are broken form each other like in Casa Tolo, but they are in smaller groups.
The whole house is on one bent over path, with each place coming off this path.
The indoor outdoor paths (from Casa Tolo) have been merged into one going in AND out.

Is a cause for delight:

Influences from Esher have shaped my cabin into a game of illusion.
My Cabin design should look natural (in an industrialized way)on the site, as if it had fallen from the cliff.
My Cabin should reveal itself to the road as just the Esher-esque frontage. The layout/planning of the building is only revealed as you walk through the building.

Hopefully my Cabin has successfully achieved the above, and would be a place that Alvaro Leite Siza Vieria would enjoy living in.

Signing out,
El.
(DAB310 n7219326)

3D Cabin.

External:

(Just looking through a bit of the cliff)

Internal:

I was just going to have the external view, but in light of my conversation with tiffany (and also having to explain it a few times to various people, I have included a view from the stairs that lead to nowhere. This is my reflection spot, looking out over the landscape. Hopefully this vignette gives a little more meaning to why i didn't just have the stairs infilled.

Monday, March 22

Forbidden CAD

I know we were not ment to be using CAD, but I was getting confused by my design in 3D views, so I did up an (ultra quick) SketchUp to understand the plans and sections. So here is the FORBIDDEN CAD:

These were part of my learning experience, and in the meeting on last friday Lindy told us to upload any models or CAD we had anyway, so enjoy :)

Section and space planning

Here is my critical section: (there was penciled in furniture to give an idea of the space planning, but it hasn't turned out when I've uploaded the blog, so underneath I have a mini colour coded section).

Red: Bath

Yellow: Bedroom

Pink: Living

Orange: Dining

Blue: Kitchen

Green: Reflection

Purple: Studio (on other side of wall).

Elevations.

Finally! These Elevations have been in progress for almost a week now. It feels quite good to have them uploaded.

Plans

After much deliberation, the plans for my Cabin:

Internal space planning.

These diagrams were the key steps in my process of figuring out the planning of the internal workings of my Cabin. (More for a house as a container of human activity)

My Cabin sketches...

I tried really hard to keep in the same style as Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira. I found this especially difficult - especially in relation to his sketches. They look simple because they are - his scribbles catch the essence of Casa Tolo, however trying to replicate someone else's sketches proved to be very very very difficult. The following two are my best attempts:

This first sketch was done in an attempt to figure out the internal/ and external stair workings. It was completed in the process of explaining the design to my house-mate.

The second image was the first attempt I had at converting my ideas into the style of my Architect.

Neither image looks particularly aesthetic, but both turned out to be pretty much the final design, and useful in explaining it as such.

Sunday, March 21

The Architect's sketches

In our brief we are supposed to be basing our drawing style of that of the architect we are studying, so here are some of Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira's sketches:

(Sketch 01)