UNIT 3 -HOUSE-SITE & LOCATION
DESIGN BRIEF NEED : A need for a new detached house design for Londoners has been identified. The task is to design a house that solves the problems that we are currently facing today in terms of real estate development. The design theme is modernism, which means the rules of old architecture for example slopped roofs goes out of the window and, the focus is to design a house that has is innovative since we have range of new materials to use for both function and structural strength purposes. Open plan interiors and large windows are essential however, ornament is optional. The design must tackle the issues we have with the houses we currently have. RESPONSE : I am going to carry out research on the materials that are commonly used in modern architecture as this will allow me to design a house that will stand the test of time. Looking at designers that have already made an impact in the industry who focus on the same theme (modernism), is going to give me a direction as to how my design should look like and the requirements of a modern building (house). The specification on the next page is going to guide all my ideas to being fit for purpose. To develop my models I will be changing the shape, size, colour and the materials because the knowledge of materials I will gather during that process will enable me to make an informed final model that is only fit for purpose, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing.
SPECIFICATION For my design to be market fit it must meet the following criteria as this would allow it make its stand and establish itself within the industry,: PROPOSAL: The design must be AESTHETICALLY PLEASING.
PROPOSAL: The house must be FUNCTIONAL.
JUSTIFICATION: The design a detached house that will accommodate a number of clients from different ages. The houses must have at least 4 bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, 1 fairly large kitchen, 3 recreational rooms that encourage family interaction/ gathering and, 1 living room, 1 dining room, 2 garages and at least 2 floors. The house must have a minimal amount of windows cover a reasonable space to allow natural light to be the main light source. PROPOSAL: The theme of the design will be MODERNISM/MINIMALISM. PROPOSAL: The interior and exterior of the house must be FIT FOR PURPOSE.
JUSTIFICATION: For a design to be a good design it must be a to attract clients from the outside because this is what they see before they actually go inside to look at the property. So the colour shape and form of the design will be the key focus on in this project. These three aspects will allow me to draw and develop ideas straight from the inspiration into something attractive to the potential clients.
JUSTIFICATION: I chose this theme because it allows me to be creative with my design as there are less restrictions to the way modern houses should look like or the materials that be used to make the building. Minimalism is supported by the modern movement and I am basing my designs partly on this idea because it automatically makes the design environmentally friendly and sustainable which is the direction where we are heading towards.
JUSTIFICATION: The design of both the interior and exterior of the building must be functional meaning the interior will be able to accommodate people and provide comfort to the users of the space. The exterior should also portray the theme and also what the users should expect the interior to be like, as this building will be modern, bricks wont be used to make form the outside of the building because there are better suited materials to use that are less costly and sustainable to use.
RESEARCH PLAN For my design to be market fit, I must carry out research which will guide my design, consequently making my design fit for purpose. The following points will help do exactly that,:
WHAT
WHY
HOW
Interior spaces
To get an idea of how the interior of my designs should look like which will results in a design that meets the design criteria.
Pay a visit to different sites and look at how the interior of the buildings there are used to maximise the experience of being inside of the building and how the outside looks when you are looking outside. For example windows can be used as a source of natural light but by carefully placing facing amazing sites could create the feeling of relaxation and also make the user feel like the room they are in is bigger than it actually is.
Drawing Methods
Knowing how to draw my ideas I will grant knowledge on how to visually present designs in a understandable way.
Look at different ways of drawing method, this includes elevation drawings, plan drawings, perspective drawing and tracing.(online research methods)
Exterior spaces
The first thing that people see when they want to buy a building is the outside and making it as attractive as possible will maximise the amount clients that would like to buy it building. Making the an exterior that is related to the surroundings will allow add to how the building is fit for purpose and aesthetically pleasing it is.
By looking at how buildings and other products were designed, I will be able to design a house that has the appeal needed to attract lots of clients. In order to do this I will look the way in which shapes and colours are used as
Designers & Existing spaces
Designers often have unique ways sketching methods and would have designed buildings in the past which will help design something that is not too radical that will end up steering conflict. Their designs will also work as inspiration for my designs.
Research the different designers that base their designs on the same theme or something similar.
INTRODUCTION I am going to design a house based on modernism and minimalism for a theme because I believe that modernism stretches real estate design to an extent where houses are more than just a place where we sleep eat and drink. By definition modernism is “a movement towards modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas� Modernism in architecture, is without doubt changing the way we live. This is because most of our lives especially people living in Europe spend 90% of our lives indoors, so therefore the interior of the buildings were live has to be economic, user and environmentally friendly. Minimalism goes hand in hand with modernism and I have decided to use minimalism as a moderator, to stop me from going overboard with the idea of modernism.
INITIAL SKETCHES
These sketches are
INTERIOR SPACES
As a way to get us started we were asked to draw different plans within a short spaces of time, first we were asked to draw plans in 3 minutes (drawing 1-4) and then later we were drawing against 10 minutes (drawing 5-7).
TIMED DRAWINGS LAYOUT From drawing these different interior spaces, I noticed that all these spaces are designed for user convenience and how they are a careful positioned to minimise the distance the user has to travel to get to rooms that they use the most. I’ve learnt that the interior spaces are usually the most difficult spaces to design because there are a combination of that stairs, rooms and corridors that are all connected to the use the building for example, this design of the museum American Folk Art Museum designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and all the stairs are located in the west side to make it easier for all the visitors to get around the museum. RELATION Looking at these interior spaces grants me a broader knowledge of how interior spaces should be designed and the thought that goes behind each designs. Although this is a museum design, I will use these designs in the following four slides to careful places the rooms, corridors and the stairs of my house. My designs will clearly illustrate the principals of these design because the design has a number of things at heart but most importantly the client.
TIMED DRAWINGS LAYOUT Although this was just an exercise, I’ve learnt that there is more to an interior space than just placing rooms into a confined four sided box of walls. I have learnt that there is a number of the strategies used to make the interior space fir for purpose. In this hotel suite design you can see that the rooms are placed in order of complementation in terms of how the rooms will be used at certain times. For example the bathroom was placed next to the bedroom. This is because the bathroom has to be closer to the bedroom as people usually take a bath before they go to bed or early in the morning so it is only logical to place the rooms next to each other to minimise the distance between them.
RELATION Looking at this particular space, I can take the idea of a placing rooms next to each other to reduce the walking distance between the rooms. I will look at the more of these spaces to develop my understanding of what an interior space should be and what it should do for the user.
TIMED DRAWINGS LAYOUT This is an interior space that coherently illustrates my theme. The design has a number of things that I quite for example the simple layout of the floor makes it cheaper to make the as the materials used would straight forward because the walls are just
RELATION Looking at this particular space, I can take the idea of a placing rooms next to each other to reduce the walking distance between the rooms. I will look at the more of these spaces to develop my understanding of what an interior space should be and what it should do for the user.
TIMED DRAWINGS LAYOUT Although this was just an exercise, I’ve learnt that there is more to an interior space than just placing rooms into a confined four sided box of walls. I have learnt that there is a number of the strategies used to make the interior space fir for purpose. In this hotel suite design you can see that the rooms are placed in order of complementation in terms of how the rooms will be used at certain times. For example the bathroom was placed next to the bedroom. This is because the bathroom has to be closer to the bedroom as people usually take a bath before they go to bed or early in the morning so it is only logical to place the rooms next to each other to minimise the distance between them.
RELATION
Looking at this particular space, I can take the idea of a placing rooms next to each other to reduce the walking distance between the rooms. I will look at the more of these spaces to develop my understanding of what an interior space should be and what it should do for the user.
TIMED DRAWINGS LAYOUT Although this was just an exercise, I’ve learnt that there is more to an interior space than just placing rooms into a confined four sided box of walls. I have learnt that there is a number of the strategies used to make the interior space fir for purpose. In this hotel suite design you can see that the rooms are placed in order of complementation in terms of how the rooms will be used at certain times. For example the bathroom was placed next to the bedroom. This is because the bathroom has to be closer to the bedroom as people usually take a bath before they go to bed or early in the morning so it is only logical to place the rooms next to each other to minimise the distance between them.
RELATION
Looking at this particular space, I can take the idea of a placing rooms in order of their function next to each other to reduce the walking distance between the rooms. I will look at the more of these spaces to develop my understanding of what an interior space should be and what it should do for the user.
TIMED DRAWINGS
Annotations
TIMED DRAWINGS
Annotations
TIMED DRAWINGS This is a 10 minute drawing of the Muskoka Bathroom.
ELEVATION DRAWING HOUSES
Following the elevation drawing exercise. I started looking at different elevation plan drawing as an exercise to stimulate our perspective drawing skills. Eventually I went onto Architizer to find buildings that had pictures that were taken from different view points.
ELEVATION DRAWING
TREES After looking at the different interior spaces that for exercises, I went onto drawing trees as this was part of the flip learning. Knowing that site was part of my brief I thought that trees seemed appropriate and by learning to draw trees earlier in the process, I would be able use them as scaling objects for the model I am going to make in addition to the people I am going to use.
ELEVATION DRAWING PEOPLE
MOOD BOARD
Looking at these designs I can see that they are all connected by the way all the roofs are flat and the big bold windows that cover up most of the house’s walls. These features are what people identify contemporary building design as.
DESIGNER Jean Nouvel Jean Nouvel is a French architect who wet to École des Beaux-Arts which based in the . He has won multiple awards for his designs that are internationally recognised, he has won architectural design awards such as Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Institut du Monde Arabe. His designs have without doubt influenced some of the modern design principals. He has designed a range of different buildings across the globe. His designs are directly related to modernism but at the same time he blends the principals of the movement with his own. Unlike most architects Nouvel starts his designs as words which he then converts into drawings and in some cases they then lead to widely recognised buildings.
DESIGNS
TOWER 25 The tower stands at 203ft tall with 17floors and it cost roughly around 25million euros to construct the whole structure. The building is located in Cyprus, in Nicosia facing the Venetian Fortifications of the city next to Zaha Hadid’s Eleftheria Square which is a redesign of the old building, it’s currently under construction. It has full length balconies on each floor that can be used for plantation as illustrated in the photos. It has one elevator that goes vertically across all the floors as a way of faster transportation.
This tower was designed so that it would work as beehive, meaning it was designed to be used for both commercial and real estate purposes. This concept is also seen in the way the greenery makes the rectangular shape look alive and the window layout makes it look like its breathing. The concept takes both natural and synthetic looks and blends together by taking different sides of the building and making them reflect the different personalities that it accommodates by making the north and south look welcoming in the sense that it has the most of the greenery there but when you look at the west and eastern perspective you see the severe personality of the business that are run in the same building.
DESIGNS I like the design for a number of reasons, one the building takes shows how I can design a building that has a to different types of target audiences. The second reason is the fact that the building has a connection to nature but its location is in the very heart of the city. This helps as many people that live in the city actually don’t have that connection to the countryside and if they want to go the countryside you have to make a trip. Finally I like it because it not only brings something new to its surroundings but it also takes a considerable amount of it surroundings’ visual identity with the rectangular windows.
PRIMARY RESEARCH
TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGE WINDOW LAYOUT
PRIMARY REASEACH CITY HALL
During my visit to the tower bridge vicinity I took a tour around the city hall, I only got see the first two floors because the floors higher are of limits to the general public. From looking at the floors from the inside, I saw noticed that there was a giant stair case that swirled around the whole building from the ground floor to the top to make getting around the building faster and easier, there are elevators that take you from one floor to another.
CITY HALL INTERIOR SPACES
During my visit to the tower bridge vicinity I took a tour around the city hall, I only got see the first two floors because the floors higher are of limits to the general public. From looking at the floors from the inside, I saw noticed that there was a giant stair case that swirled around the whole building from the ground floor to the top to make getting around the building faster and easier, there are elevators that take you from one floor to another.
DESIGNS
After looking at the structure of the building, I went onto making a model that looks like the city hall out of wire as a way of experimenting with the materials that I can use to make my final model. From making this model I understood that wire was a good material for getting the basic shape of the structure however the making an entire model using wire would require a lot of experience and knowledge of its properties.
DESIGNS
Since the brief states that the house must based on modernism, I thought of ways that I could change the stairs from being traditional. For inspiration I went on Pinterest to find stair case ideas that I could incorporate to my design and this example caught my eye. I like this idea because its clean and simple, making it the perfect fit for my design.
DESIGNS As part of developing my idea that was inspired by the city hall, I started designing the interior of the house. To make a good design I had to make start with the room layout. This meant the I was going to design the way each room on each floor would look. Keeping the theme of the project in mind.
DESIGNS
DESIGNS
WIRE DRAWINGS
Pic using a view finder. From this picture I went onto doing a wire drawing of the city hall and I also tried doing the tower bridge.
TOWER BRIDGE TRIP PHOTOGRAPHS
The One Tower Bridge flats caught my attention during the visit as it clearly illustrates how simplicity in the shapes or form used to create a building can make a visual impact on how people use spaces. I like how the balconies extend onto the sides, I think this would be essential to maximising space and giving the sense of freedom which key to solving the issue problem we are currently facing in the real estate industry . In addition to that I also like the contrast created by the colours used as it. This is the aim of my theme,
DESIGNS Following the interior layout design, I started looking at the exterior and designing it so that it would look like a modern building from the outside as this is what most people look see first. The design covers the structure of the building form the out side as this would help me visualise the design easily. The drawings below are different elevation drawings of the design.
NORTHEN ELEVATION
EASTERN ELEVATION
DESIGNS Quick 5minutes 3D sketch of the design using pen and pencil.
MODEL 1
My first model that is a result of all the research I have carried so far. There is still a lot more room for development as the model is too literal in terms of its interpretation of the theme.
DESIGNERS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF DESIGN
DIETER RAMS
“Good design is innovative, Good design makes a product useful, Good design is aesthetic, Good design makes a product understandable, Good design is unobtrusive, Good design is honest, Good design is long-lasting, Good design is thorough down to the last detail, Good design is environmentally-friendly and finally Good design is as little design as possible.�
DESIGNERS
DIETER RAMS
Dieter Rams is a Industrial designer, who specialises in designing consumer products. He has a lot of influence in the design world today, some of leading designers today like Jonathan Ive for example have all been inspired by his work.
DESIGNERS BRAUN ET-66 CALCULATOR
Although this theme product in particular has nothing to do with my theme or what I am designing even. I will use adopt the ideology behind the product. The designer is Dieter Rams who wrote the ten design commandments which are clearly demonstrated in the design of this product.
MODELS
MODEL PHASE 1 2
MODELS
MODEL PHASE 2 2
MODELS
MODEL PHASE 3 2
To completely change the direction my ideas were going, I had to use different materials. The next material in line was glass and in order to make a model out of glass, I had to break an old bottle of perfume as this will give lots of different shapes and sizes of glass that I can put together to make a model. This model stretches the possibilities of how my building could look like as the complex shapes are illustrating the possibilities. The first model was constructed using tempered glass and coloured acrylic plastic. The join the materials together I used a hot glue gun. From the three phases I shoes to develop the third version of my second model because I remembered piece made by Umberto Boccioni of work that looked like my model.
DEVELOPMENT After developing my second model to its third phase I realised that, it looked like a piece from Umerbeto’s collection which is made up of unique forms of continuity in space. Going back to find the piece, I stumbled upon another one of his works which looked more like a building though it is said to be a Development of a Bottle in Space. The Bottle in Space piece helped me to draw a less abstract house that clearly portrays my theme because of its flat surfaces. FUTURIST After developing my second model to its third phase I realised that, it looked like a piece from Umerbeto’s collection which is made up of unique forms of continuity in space. Going back to find the piece, I came across another one of his works which looked more like a building though it is said to be a Development of a Bottle in Space. The Bottle in Space piece helped me to draw a less abstract house that clearly portrays my theme because of its flat surfaces. The surfaces of his work ( the physical ones are all connected to make one model and that’s the idea that am going to take from these two pieces.
MODEL PHASE 3 2
DEVELOPMENT
FINAL MODEL
EVALUTION