- 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.
- 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.
- 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)