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Assignment 2 Submission

All necessary files in dropbox link. Includes 4 pdf files:

• DA.pdf - The development with all necessary plans, sections etc, excluding site plan and landscape plan
• Landscape Plan.pdf
• Site Plan.pdf
• SOEE.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qv3floktkt8fbk0/-Jx5xJGAQz

Critique

Assignment 2 Brief

Rooming List

• Master Bedroom with ensuite
• 1 other primary bedroom (Calatrava and his wife only have the one daughter living with them)
• A bathroom for this bedroom with bath and seperate shower
• Guest bedroom
• bathroom with bath and seperate shower
• Workshop
• Living Room 
• Halfway between formal and informal family area
• Will be main hub of the house
• Will have central hearth to complete hub
• Formal Dining Room
• Wash Closet (ie. small toilet)
• Kitchen
• double walled oven
• 2 bowl sink
• island benchtop with free standing range hood
• walk in pantry
• Laundry
• sufficient to do washing and ironing within the room
• 2 car garage with storage space
• Office for Calatrava and Wife

Room Relationships

1. Bedrooms should be grouped together, although the guest room should be associated with the public areas, yet should ensure that this room can maintain some degree of privacy when in use by guests.

2. The walk in wardrobe should be used as a buffer between the bedroom and ensuite (both as sound and visual buffer). Should also have sliding/opening doors on the wardrobes within the walk in closet so that when walking through the wardrobe, clothes aren't hanging out everywhere.

3. Small balcony off master bedroom.

4. Garage to have internal access from house.

Note: No kids play area - all children are adults.

Comments

• Want a WOW! reaction when visitors enter a home.
• lots and lots of natural light
• house should be warm in winter and cool in summer, and inexpensive to run
• ensuite does not need a bathtub but should have a large shower, with a waterfall rose and adjustable rose.
• minimum 8 linear metres of hanging in walk in wardrobe
• master bedroom must have a view (out east down to the beach)
• kitchen should be big enough for visitors to hang out in when entertaining
• Home theatre if possible
• high ceilings.

Measurements

• Site area: 713m sqaured
• Maximum floor area (ie. floor stamp on site) 355.2m squared
• Max building height: 8.5m

Site Analysis

Week 7 Studio - Calatrava Part 2

Assignment

For this project you will need to design a house for Santiago Calatrava and his wife and daughter. It will need to include in its design themes from his previous work, especially his thesis subject on “The foldability of Space Frames.” The spatial and room requirements are listed below.

Spatial Requirements

• ·         Master Bedroom
• ·         Ensuite
• ·        Bedroom
• ·         Guest Room
• ·         Bathroom
• ·         Kitchen
• ·         Dining Room
• ·         Living Room
• ·         Workshop
• ·         Office

Master Bedroom –

This will just need to be a basic master bedroom, nothing of particular interest about it as it will just need to be a place to sleep. Possibly with some space to display Calatrava’s artwork.

Ensuite –

The ensuite will connect on to the master bedroom. As with the master bedroom there is no necessity for any particular design.

Bedroom –

This will be for Calatrava’s daughter. There is no real need for design in this space either.

Note – By saying there is no need for design, it is meant that there is no need for a particular design for the room, but they should still follow the design principles applied to the rest of the house as a whole.

Note – All bedrooms should be relatively large, ie. enough space for bookcases, bed, wardrobe, desk, possible seating as well.

Guest Room – This room also needs no particular design principles, but should have enough space to house a guest, with sleeping, working and lounging space, much like a hotel room.

Bathroom – No design needed.

These above spatial areas are the private areas of the house. Below are the public and semi-public areas (in the case of the workshop and office) and the public areas will have a central design principle. The main principle will be that of an “Apple Box”. All the areas will be housed within a central box and can be open and closed to the area when needed. When they are put away it can make space for more people (if needed for entertainment purposes) or for other things, such as display space for a piece of art.

Office – Intended for use by Clatrava’s wife. No design needed. It will need to be fairly large as his wife is Calatrava’s business manager for all his offices around the world, so a large amount of documentation and other things will need to be stored there. Should have a second desk in it for use by visiting business partners. As stated above, this will not form part of the central “Apple Box”.

Kitchen – No need for an overly large kitchen. It is a small family, but should have capacity for entertaining a large number of guests (50 max for large parties).

Dining Room – Space for large dinner parties (12 people).

Living Room – Very large and spacious. The main living area (couches and TV) should not be part of the “Apple Box” but across a space from it, so that the other areas can fold out into the space with the main area always available.

Workshop – This will need to be a large space, with enough room for person-sized sculptors and other sculptors and paintings as well. As stated above, it will not form the central “Apple Box”.

The Apple Box

The apple box is a design principle that is based on an apple box used in film making. It is known as one of the most useful pieces of equipment on a set, as it is used for anything that needs to propped up or supported temporarily, such as furniture or light stands, it is used for levelling camera dolly tracks or for temporary seats, workbenches or stepladders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_box

This can be used in a house as box being the central form, which supports the rooms around it. The best example for this is a youtube video posted about a tiny apartment which utilises its limited space through an “apple box”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFo3rl1a9C0

Another example of an “apple box”:

Main Architecture

The main architectural theme will follow Calatrava’s work. The main theme I am after is his skeletal

framework, which is based on the human skeleton. For example, the Peace Bridge in Calgary, Canada:

And the design for the new PATH Terminal for the World Trade Centre subway station

Week 7 Studio - Calatrava - Part 1

Santiago Calatrava wrote his thesis for his engineering PhD on "The foldability of Space Frames." He has a large family - wife, 3 sons and a daughter. They all live in Manhattan in 3 adjoining townhouses - Santiago, his wife and daughter on the one side, office in the middle and 3 sons have apartments on the other side. Fascinated by the human body, especially the skeleton, and structural engineering effects on design.

Calatrava enjoys using structural elements as the main theme for his designs, but ones which are unusual and have a quirk which is almost organic. He has also incorporated moving components into many of his designs, which he claims adds another dimension to form. Therefore his house would likely have exposed structural components and have moving parts, such as an apple box in it which transforms the central space.

example of an "Apple Box" in design - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFo3rl1a9C0

Santiago is also a prolific sculptor and painter, so a large workspace would be needed. His wife runs his business across the world, so a relatively large study or office space would definitely be necessary. His sons have all moved out of the family home and so only 2-3 bedrooms would be needed (master, daughter and guest).