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THE FIVE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF A HOME
from Becca Dugas
The Five Components Arranged On Site
In the model above, the five components of the home have been placed upon a site in Over The Rhine. The components’ placement was designed according to their connections to one another and the architecture’s relationship with the site.
From this placement, the next step is to design a home or homes from the interstitial spaces, the negative spaces, that have been created. From this placement, four homes have been designed.
On the model to left, the first home is shown focusing on extension and connection between the components and the site.
A home designed in axon focusing on movement, activity, and intersections.
A home designed in elevation focusing on verticality and form.
A home designed through artistic methods focusing on the home’s relationship with its context, not on the physical site, but in society and the greater practice of architecture.
“Architectural Entity”. Oil and mixed media on canvas. 24 x 36”. 2023.
Elevations of three of the five essential components have been arranged on the canvas. In the negative space, the elevations connect, the home forms, and the surrounding world infects. The home exists in a world in tension. Colliding architecture is simultaneously constructed and destroyed as the home is forced to cut through it’s environment to maintain it’s place.
