Constraint Collector’s House The following projects show the culmination of studies that expand in scale, from body to furniture to room to house. The dwelling is a house for a collector of chairs, situated on Advocate’s Close. Through these studies and designs, an architectural language develops that respond to the key theme of constraint.
Tailoring Paper A body trace was composed of recording and analysing the gesture of putting on a jacket. These led to a further investigation of the allowances of fabric compared to the constraints of paper as a fabric. A paper jacket was constructed, with “additional allowances” to negotiate its paper qualities. From this language of folding, nets, allowances and material limits, paper seats desugbs were tested that would enable the user to learn back. The final seat, made of pulp card is folded four times and through the weight of the occupant allows a back support whist they sit on a flat plane.
PAPER JACKET WITH ADDITIONAL ‘ALLOWANCES’
Collectors House Tailoring Paper
Pulp card ‘paper seats’ folded into action
Collectors House Folding Floors
The room was designed to house the seat designed in the previous study. Taking cues from the design and construction of the paper seat, the room incorporates the concept of a maniplulated ground plane and permeable wall, in order to address the notions of servantand served space. Additionally, the concrete permeable wall contrasts and anchors the entire program of the space.
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Collectors House Shadowplay
Collectors House Shadowplay
Light survey and map of site
Collectors House Shadowplay
Collectors House Shadowplay
Collectors House Shadowplay
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Collectors House, Edinburgh See buildings as dynamic objects that need to be adaptive through time both in terms of a programmatic flexibility and in its constructional systems. Make design proposals that define and separate shearing levels of change in a building. Formulate and document strategies in the constructional and environmental systems of a building that engage with the concept of design for deconstruction.
Shearing levels strategy
Learning Outcomes d1 t+e12345 cc1 c123 Demonstrate an understanding of relevant building technologies and environmental concerns, as raised by the particular project. T&E 1 To acquire analytical skills in the critical appraisal of the building constructional and environmental principles and their impact on building adaptation. T&E1-5 Form integrative design strategies of architectural merit that have regard for and exploit environmental and ecological issues. T&E1-5 D1 The ability to make relevant and comparative linkages between environmental design theory and an architectural proposition. T&E1-5 CC1 To gain skills in the clear graphic presentation of analytical information. C1-3
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Designing for deconstruction panel
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Adapting Environments