Project 3: Final Submission Set

Project 3: Early Thoughts and Concepts

Clients:

1. Art Collector: Female, in her 50s, likes to display works, social

2. Photographers: Young couples (Art Collector's daughter + partner), in their late 20s, prefers a degree of of detachment from the outside and a world of their own.

1. From Project 2: Analysis of Antonio Carlos Siza House

-> "Tree of Life" where central dividing garden wall connects to private spaces.

Carrying the same idea: there will be a central element throughout the design that connects a particular type of space. e.g. stairs connecting mixed use areas shared by both public and private users.

2. (section) Interlocking spaces, providing mixed functions and interactions.

3. (plan) Simple overall geometry. However, site context would influence placement of internal wall/door elements to reflect landscape geometry.

Nominated section:

RED = Public

ORANGE = shared between Public and Private

YELLOW = House 1

BLUE = House 2

Project 2: Submission - Model Series + Final

1. Colour

"What if the colours of the exterior and interior exchanged?"

With a white interior, space is perceived to be heightened, and also not as clearly defined.

If the exterior colour, yellow, is to be exchanged to the interior, wall elements may be overwhelming for the psychological mind due to its intensity. This may cause degrees of intimidation and nervousness - thus not an ideal house-life.

With an exterior yellow facade, the effects of the sun shining onto the surfaces will reflect off each other (e.g. internal courtyard), which would then enter the interior space, producing a yellow-glow/cast to the rooms inside. The white interior walls directly exposed to the openings will hence reflect the yellow tinted light back into the rest of the interior, behind solid walls.

2. Detailing/Whole

Through geometric analysis, there is a centralised space (circle) through which the dividing wall invades. The triangular elements such as that of the internal courtyard and the wall-to-column connection across the U-structure superimposes with the circle.

3. Zoning/Spaces (Exterior vs. Interior)

The garden entirely envelopes the built mass.

The garden wall intruding the leg of the U-shaped house, 'merging' the landscape with the artificial. However, the raised base of the house signifies its alienation to the natural environment.

4. Final (combined ideas)

- Proposal for activities interacting both exterior and internal spaces, in an imagined landscape

In proposal for improving the interaction between spaces both public and private, exterior and interior zones, I would embrace the idea of the "Tree of Life" in which a central element (similar to that of the dividing garden wall branches off to private spaces, in that geometry can be deduced in terms of their connection to the whole site.