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).

Assignment 1 Final Submission

Dropbox link to pdf file

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5q0vtnn0aq486f/submission%203.pdf?m

Dropbox link to Sketchup file

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u30glwi8bufwl0b/OUTuy34Byz

Link to youtube video incase pdf video doesn't work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqkpr77ehvY&feature=youtu.be

Assignment 1 Progress

Building has area of 269.76 m^2, and a volume of 892.3m^3

Representative Views

Cross Section

Elevations

Plan Ground Level

Plan Level 1

Plan Level 2

Plan Level 3

Plan Exterior Staircase

Animation

Exercise 3 - Stage 3

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5dy6uxox3eb9vnh/Presentation%20Board%20-%20InDesign.pdf

dropbox link

Research Exercise - Presentation Boards

http://evandavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/final-presentation-board1.jpg (accessed 29/8/13)

This board interests me through its use of colour. Most of the information and imagery is in black and white -it is there yet it doesn't draw the eye. Whereas the important things have been highlighted in a bright red which will automatically make them the focal point of the board.

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/presentationboard/interesting/ (accessed 29/8/13)

This boards theme is to "look back at the past, mark the present, expect the future." It then goes about separating its information into the 3 segments of the idea. The first shows the museum design looking back at the ancient Mexican temple - "look back at the past." The second segment lays out the building, with cross sections and whole building 3D images - "mark the present." Finally we have some 3D images of the interior and how the building is expected to look when complete - "expect the future."

http://glhhickman.blogspot.com.au/2009/11/revised-presentation-board-of-foods-lab.html (accessed 29/8/13)

This board's theme is about sedimentation and the textures of different wood. The layout then follows this idea, as it steps down the board, as different levels of sedimentation step down through the earth.

House Update

Week 4 Stage 1

http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/transport/bridge-building/suspension-cable/

http://www.archweb.it/dwg/arch_arredi_famosi/Calatrava/alamillo_bridge/alamillo_bridge_dwg.htm

http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Alamillo_Bridge

http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Alamillo_Bridge

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/civilengineering/bridges/Pages/NotableBridges/Alamillo.html

Structural flow diagram, cantilever and road held in equilibrium

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/civilengineering/bridges/Pages/NotableBridges/AlamilloForces.html

http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Alamillo_Bridge

Week 4 Studio Stage 2

Highlighted Basic Edges

Basic 3D primitive form

Week 3 Home Exercise Sketchup Models

Original Rooms - 3m high, 2-4 metres wide and long

Rotated and Stacked

Rotated and placed. Fits a 3 sided pyramid envelope.

3 Primitives - 1st Design, Cone, Box, Wedge

The cone is 9 metres high, with space for up to 3 floors, each getting gradually smaller (top floor probably only 1 room - bedroom?). The wedge on its side getting smaller until it is door sized as it crosses into the cone. 7m tall, enough for 2 floors or a vaulted ceiling, or both (studio space looking down over main living area??). The box there to connect the 3 areas together, with a small courtyard in the centre.

3 Primitives 2nd Design - Wedge, Torus, Cylinder

Here the torus is the main event. 2 metre radius in the tube with a 6m total radius, it can fit normal sized living areas in a cool way - a continuous hallway wrapping itself around the house. The cylinder is 7m tall with a 3m radius (when standing straight). I tilted it on its edge to create a cool effect with the rooms, which would be parallel to the ground but with the roof and windows slanting up and away - especially with rounded sides. The wedge is there to connect with the cylinder to create a sort of bridge over the roman style courtyard in the middle.