double house 1:50

double house 1:100

double house drawings

the proposition

Concepts:

1. exploring solids and voids / excavating land forming solds / spaces out of solids
2. exploring opposition / heavy and light / public and private
3. exploring circulatioin / connecting the horizontal and vertical
4. exploring site / sloping versus flat

maison a bordeaux - final presentation studies

maison a bordeaux - materiality

This study aimed to explore the core of the architecture, the lift. The lift almost acts as a moving section through the heart of the architecture. I used this core to examine the richness of materials that are used surrounding this core.

maison a bordeaux - solid and void

The following sectional studies attempt to study the concept of solid and void as the three different levels of the house can be conceptualised as being either solid or void. The following sections were done in series, and each iterative study had a different emphasis on the hatching to emphasise the solid versus void concept.

sectional study N-S

sectional study E-S

plaster model that inverted the spaces / solid represents void, whereas spaces represent solid