I have an idea! What's more, I have an design which I actually feel like ALSV (Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira) would actually like to live in.
(WARNING... long narrative awaits!)
Walking to the bus stop with fellow Dab310er April, we were discussing this project and how we were planning to interpret our exemplar projects into a cabin for the architect. I have been playing with the idea of specifically choosing a site that is very different to that of Casa Tolo (see more below), and our conversation sparked an idea.
April has studied the High-gate hill house, and as such is another steep-site-designer in this instant. She was explaining her idea of a house half off a cliff.
(which sounds very good - see her blog: http://aprilsarchitecturalapprentice.blogspot.com/)
As a result of this conversation I spent my bus trip home thinking about levels and the site I needed desperately to hurry up and decide on. April's idea sparked the first thought:
How would ALSV's cabin interact with a cliff?
Casa tolo is on a steep site, and is sloped down over the whole site, it is of plain concrete, and other than the stairs, the feeling of an industrialized nature was what drew me to this exemplar. When I got home I started sketching (trying to use the same style of ALSV). At first I had the cabin perched on top of next to and half-way up a cliff, but when I drew my little pile of boxes at the base o the cliff I liked this the most. It looked (because I was drawing very small in the corner of a page), as if the house was just a pile of stones that had tumbled down and off the cliff. This was the first Idea.
Taking a step back I looked through my research and notes and tried to understand what ALSV's key elements were.
I think that just because ALSV built one house which staircases down an intense incline, this does not mean he would wish to live in a mirror image of this house (but in a Brisbane-ish context).
I think he would have an interesting site, and build the form of the cabin from the site.
Still playing with indoor/outdoor.
Still working with light.
Still leveled 3D shapes
Still separate components.
From studying Casa Tolo I believe his cabin should be a geometrical abnormality OF the site.
This was (for the moment) sort of looking at the house as an environmental filter, and having realized this i decided I'd stick with this ideal and try and figure out the next bits of my house by looking at the other two!
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