Diary of Dwelling Project at Corf Castle - Dorset (UK)

architecture

Diary

cecĂ­lie vecchi machado

architecture Diary cecĂ­lie vecchi machado k1445246 BaHons Architecture second semester diary year 2 - studio 2.1 may, 2015

introduction Throughout the end of the first semester and during the second semester, among the work done for the general modules, the work developed in studio 2.1 was the design of a cluster of houses in Corfe Castle Village, located in the jurassic coast of Dorset. To be more specific about it, it was located in the old milk factory of the region, beside Corfe Castle train station.

From the first semester, the experiences aquired in the first two projecs of a summer house and a carving stone workshop was vastly useful to the development of this next project. Working with the same site, having multiple visits done and having gathered a great amount of information, allowed us to explore the possibilties of this site with more confidence.

The site models that the studio made as a group was an important part of fixing the knowledge and feeling that the landscape had provided us during the first semester.

In the end of the first semester we also had a field trip to Oporto, in Portugal, visiting and analizing the work of Alvaro Siza with The Pools, The Tea House, his housing projects, which provided us a great source of inspiration and information. In Oporto we also developed a photography work, trying to have another, or a more sensitive look for architecture itself.

From all that, the work during the second semester was the result of a lot of experimentation, modeling, trying, making mistakes and fixing them and a lot of hard work.

contents site introduction .................................... 06 trip to oporto ........................................ 11 dwelling week 1-2 .................................. 17 dwelling week 3 ..................................... 25 dwelling week 4 ..................................... 31 dwelling week 5 ..................................... 39 dwelling week 6 ..................................... 47 dwelling week 7 ..................................... 55 dwelling week 8 ..................................... 63 dwelling week 9 ..................................... 67 dwelling week 10.................................... 75 AR5004 structural and mep ...................... 81 AR5003

representation of interior ............. 89

AR5003 representation of stairs ................ 95 dwelling week 12 .................................. 103 finaal drawings portfolio ........................ 113 references .......................................... 123

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Jurassic Coast - Lulworth Cove

Jurassic Coast - Lulworth Cove

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studio 2.1 - Corfe Castle Village Dorset

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milk factory beside train station

the photography above shows the site that we were proposed to work on, beside Corfe Castle Train Station. it was taken from the hill located behind the site.

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Dwelling

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second semester

School of Architecture and Landscape

Turn End

Lyde End

Studio 2.1 Brief 05 – Dwelling A Design Proposal for a Cluster of Houses

The single houses, the villages, the towns are works of building which within and around themselves gather the multifarious in-between. The buildings bring the earth as the inhabited landscape close to man, and at the same time place the closeness of neighbourly dwelling under the expanse of the sky.

Martin Heidegger

This is your main brief and will occupy us for the rest of the academic year, constituting the most significant proportion of your portfolio.

You are being asked to design a cluster of dwellings for your site in Corfe Castle. The exact size, number and type of dwellings is for you to determine through your own thorough-going analysis of the site and wider context, although by ‘cluster’ we have in mind something between three and six houses.

By now you should all have a good understanding of the character and inhabitation of Corfe Castle; the mixture of full-time residents and of holiday homes, and of the tourist ‘honeypot’, and how normal life both fits around it and sustains it. This is a pattern of inhabitation often to be found in UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and brings a conflict of interests between wishing to preserve a physical environment with its history and beauty, and trying to sustain a vitality in everyday life which typically requires expansion and new housing. These questions are complex and of a sociopolitico nature, and as such beyond the scope of purely architectural answers. However, your client, Tony Viney, owns the one acre site that we are using and wishes to leave a legacy of affordable homes, studio and workshop buildings for the local community. As such your proposals should be seen as a holistic proposal for the site, and as a model for how to build living and working spaces in sensitive historical settings, as those places need to expand to meet demands.

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Level 5, BA(Hons) Architecture

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studio 2.1 - Trip to Oporto tea house

the photographs in the following page were taken as a different brief. they were ment to look to architecture with a particular and more sensitive look.

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studio 2.1 - Trip to Oporto the pools

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studio 2.1 - Trip to Oporto housing

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studio 2.1 - Trip to Oporto architecture school

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studio 2.1 - Dwelling Research meenings and beggining

Dwelling - ‘place of residence‘ ‘a building or other place to live in‘ ‘abode‘ ‘house‘

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Cluster- ‘A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together; a bunch ‘

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Project

precedents

Timber and brick are materials already present in the materiality of the referent site and so, as a first step I thought about using this materias in a way to stablish a dialog with the existing buildings.

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first sketches - instinctive ideas

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first concrete idea , model

For a first idea, I´ve thought about working with modules of semi detached houses, disposed in the landscape according to the existing contours. The chosen space apears as a promissing area with some outgrown vegetation that also provides a grat view of the nature, the stream and the hill located right behind it.

It became as a two stories building in a module of 10 to 8 meters, composing two houses in a module, each a mirror of the other.

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structure research

The timber structure appeared as a good option that can be combined with a brick skin and timber cladding in effective ways, resulting in an apropriate lighter structure for muddy lands. The images below represent the gathering of these materials and also the insulation in between them.

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trying internal spaces x dimentions

And from these modules I´ve started to work out the divisions and needs for the internal spaces. At this stage I got to define a module size, capable of attend to the house requirements of 5 to 8 meters.

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shape studies

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secondi idea - first sketches

In order to push further the relation stablished between the housing and the landscape, I´ve started to test other possibilities of gathering of modules and gathering between houses and play with them in the landscape.

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experimenting the landscape

A few tests were made in the site model, with the basic module I had proposed in order to create a stronger bond with the landscape.

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experimenting on site

My main objective was to create a strong contemplative relation to the untouched nature and mantein the flow of the landscape, so I experimented what might provide that.

The outcoming result was a placement that respected the contours and alsoprovided grat views from the nature to each of the houses.

The new placement also inspired a new shape for the buildings that used the basic 8 to 5 module but still found confort in the simetry and asimetry.

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secondi idea - first sketches

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secondi idea - a new shape

After some shape strudies and landscape studies I got to a new shape for the building with dimensions that I previouly determined by studing modules that would fit what is necessary for a house.

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secondi idea - internal shape

from the new design shape, I started studying the internal possibilities.

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secondi idea - internal shape

and I also, started studying the sections of the building.

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landscape ajustments

the next step was to produce the 1:200 model of the new design and study it in context with the site model and, alongside, keep the internal studies.

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landscape placement

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other precedents

the utzor courtyard houses (up) offered a very specific information, that was the landscape relation, and how they are related with the contours of the landscape, without being locked by it. the cornford house, in cambridge (right) was an materiality and material inspiration.

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other precedents

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landscape changes

from the precedents inspiration, I tested the housing arragement in the landscape in the 1:200 site model, locking it in the place that, after trying a couple of times, I decided was best.

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landscape decision

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landscape decision

after deciding the final arragement, the next stepp was to register and draw it.

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sunlight considerations - summer

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testing the materiality

thinking structure

thinking heavy x light components

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testing the materiality

the heavy bricks working together with a light timber frame and glazing structure

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testing the materiality model

A brick skin that evolves some parts of the main timber structure, but it covers up up till certain points, and from those points, the timber structure is revealed creating a contrast and breaking the heaviness of the building.

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testing the materiality model

Making this model, with the brick claddin, what mostly captured my attention was the same model, removing the brick cladding and showing the big contrast of the two structures I want to use.

Heavy and thick walls, discontinuous, disconected, irregular, such as a ruin.

The dialog stablished with Corfe Castle was undeniable, and the design gained its important narrative and contextualization.

The development of the design would suggest the inhabitation. A light timber structure that connects and allows inhabitation in a “ruin“.

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model and Corfe Castle

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drawing test, exposing narrative

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testing the plan and structure

From finding the narrative, on, the main problem was how to expose this idea trhough the design and, because of that, many tests of drawing and modelling came.

Each new external design rquired a new plan testing and a new structure evalauation.

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drawing test

While developing the design I was also testing different forms or computer representing my ideas, using CAD and Photoshop.

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new precedents

The Sky House in Tokyo, from Kiyonori Kikutake, was a great inspiration source, because of its combination of heavy and light structure and for my understanding of how disconnected walls might work with a inbetween structure.

It was also very interesting because of its plan arragement possibilities.

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new precedents

turn end was a important influence by it’s materiality and landscape dialogue influence.

By being such an agreable space to be in, the internal space distribution was a very interesting point.

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field trip - Turn End

The field trip to Turn End had individual purposes. In my case I observed the materias interaction and how those materias worked together.

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Being there, other thing that captured my attention was the interaction between the house and the landscape and also the internal space divisions. The place was inspiering for being such a agreable space to be.

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testing the plan and structure

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testing the plan and structure

I began to make some structural diagrams for my own understanding of how my houses would work

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desconstruction of an idea

From the diagrams I started making some rough models to put the proposed structures up.

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desconstruction of an idea

I also made some #D models using SketchUp, at moments that new ideas would come to my mind as a way not to forget my thoughts on what I felt like changing in the design.

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drawing adjusting

Another way of exploring this diagrams was through detail paper, in wich I would make suares, representing measurements and internal spaces, and distribute them in a certain way and then draw the structure among them, in a way to adjust measurements.

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drawing adjusting

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design in the landscape

After changing the structure, the design gained another aparence. I now has a small courtyard, a pergola and the structural walls are even more different between each other.

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drawing the plan

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design in the landscape

The next thing I did after redrawing the house design was to make a 1:50 model out of it.

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modeling new proposal

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study of the housing project understanding the details

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study of the housing project understanding the details

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study of the housing project structure diagram

STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM 01

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secondary timber beams primary timber beams breick walls

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study of the housing project energy distribution diagram

MEP DIAGRAM 01

energy spo energy dis

energy circ

energy spots energy distribution box energy circuit

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study of the housing project

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1:20 section of one of the houses

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PLASTERBOARD

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WALL WOOD SHEETING

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BREATHE MEMBRANE

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PRE-TREATED VERTICAL BATTENS

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TIMBER BOARD LAID HORIZONTALLY

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WINDOW FRAME

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FLOOR WOOD SHEETIING

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BRICK WALL

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CHIMNEY

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FIRE BOX

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SMOKE CHAMBER

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CHIMNEY CAP

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School of Architecture and Landscape

Interior by Wilhelm Hammershoi. 1901

interior study of the houses brief

Interior in Charcoal and pastel. Dima Srouji

Representation Of The Interior

Introduction As architects and designers, we are able to communicate a design proposal for the interior using drawings such as perspective and scaled 3D models. We can demonstrate material, scale, proportion and structure but also more qualitative spatial conditions such as light, shade and atmosphere through these modes of representation. We can also show how a space is used or inhabited and the relationship between inside and out.

The aim of this assignment is to enhance your representation and exploration of interior space through a physical model and an atmospheric two-dimensional spatial drawing.

1 Interior Model and View The physical architectural model has a central role in the design process. It stands between representation and reality. It has texture and presence that can be interrogated and understood. It can be viewed from many directions and suggest materiality and form.

You are to identify a key space within your project/ building.

A A 1:20 interior model of this space demonstrating spatial, material, tectonic and atmospheric qualities. This should be developed as part of your studio work.

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An interior photograph of the model that records the essence, scale and inhabitation of the space.

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interior study of the houses 1:20 model photographs

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interior study of the houses interior drawing - pencil and pastel

REPRESENTATION OF INTERIOR HOUSE FIRST FLOOR

perspective made with pencil and pastel. view from the dining room to the living room.

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representing stairs - RIBA entrance photograph

REPRESENTATION OF STAIRS RIBA - SURVEYING

for the stairs exercice, the entrance staircase from the Royal Institute of British Architects was studied.

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representing stairs - RIBA entrance pencil drawing

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representing stairs - RIBA entrance surveying

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representing stairs - RIBA entrance plan

REPRESENTATI

1st floor pla represented.

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representing stairs - RIBA entrance side section

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Post-war Houses – Twentieth Century Architecture 4; The Journal of the Twentieth Century Society, 2000; Chapter 2 – Architecture and the Landscape Obligation, Peter Aldington,p19-28

Strange Details, Michael Cadwell; MIT Press, 2007

Studies in Tectonic Culture, Kenneth Frampton, Ed. John Cava; MIT Press, 1996 Smoot’s Ear

Systems in Timber Engineering, Josef Kolb; Birkhauser, 2008

The Measure of Humanity, Robert Tavernor; Yale University Press, 2007

The Phenomenon of Place, Christian Norberg-Schulz; Architectural Association Quarterly, Vol 8, no 4, 1976

The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard; Beacon Press, 1994

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