PORTFOLIO Isabella D’Alessandro
4. Patterns 12. Favorite House
CONT
8. Dog House 16. Tiny House
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PATTERNS
Exploration through Sketchup helped in Learning the difference between a Group and a component. Thus, making it easier to replicate something such as patterns. *S. Ability to design intricate patterns. W. choosing between group or components causing it to take longer to complete. O. Later will be able to use this concept in creating unique patterns. R. Creating patterns outside the given Format. * Abbreviations: S.= Strengths, W. = Weakness O= Opportunities, R= Risk
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1000 CUBES.
Replicating cubes was the fundamental starting point of components. Subsequently, making it easy to produce 1000 of them and editing all at once.
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DOG HOUSE.
Beginning to design on Sketchup is a never ending editing process. Which makes it hard to just settle with one idea. W. making the holes for windows and doors was challenging for me and took longer than anticipated S. It helped explore Sketchup in a fun way by making smaller scale houses. R. I can foresee conceptual issues such as what is the purpose for your design. O. I would change the standard design and really go crazy with the idea of a dog house.
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FAVORITE HOUSE.
Photograph(right page). 3. Exterior elevation
594 walnut ave San Bruno; nice balance of landscape and architecture. Favorite house I chose this house because it had a nice balance of landscape and architecture. I felt that there was a subtle integration of the landscape which made this building more interesting to me. �
2. Roof Plan
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594
3. Perspective drawing
WALNUT AVE.
PHOTOGRAPH IMAGINE DRAW O. I could clean up my perspective drawing & make it more realistic S. Drawing dark enough so it’s legible; W. Not having straight lines or a true perspective that’s accurate. 3/32”=1’0”
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TINY HOUSE.
1st iteration : yellow group’s floor plan (total square footage 160 st^2 Axon resulting from the group floor plan with personal adjustments Dimension still the same: 8x20’ W. the orientation of my loft is facing the wrong direction. 2nd iteration of the tiny house floor plan
20’
and attempt to play with verticality by adding the lofted
8’
bedroom. (S.)
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TINY HOUSE.
What’s your issue with tiny homes? Strengths: I have always been stronger at representing design through sketching, I think this opinion still holds true. This sketch shows the interior space and how one would interact within it
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“CHALLENGING GRAVITY”
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ZERO GRAVITY.
FINAL ITERATION Narrative: What happens to working professionals such as astronauts who travel for a living, they want a stationary Tiny home which challenges the Front Perspective
boundaries of gravity hence the title‌ S. Conceptually it has a lot of potential and it helped reinforce the prior skills learned classes prior. W. Restarting my design and not having enough
20’
time to design the *Longitudinal Section
interior. Playing with verticality rewarded me with the most opportunities which gave me the idea to create a cantilevered second floor .
*South Latitudinal section
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1st floor
FLOOR PLANS.
FINAL ITERATION Narrative: What happens to working professionals such as astronauts who travel for a living, they want a stationary Tiny home which challenges the boundaries of gravity hence the title‌ S. Conceptually it has a lot of potential and it helped reinforce the prior skills learned classes prior. W. Restarting my design and not having enough time to design the interior. Playing with verticality rewarded me with the most opportunities which gave me the idea to create a cantilevered 2nd floor
second floor .
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INTERIOR.
O: Next time I would invest more time in developing the interior as well as further pushing the idea of “zero gravity� by possibly adding more glass as well as hanging plants R. If I further develop this idea the concept could begin to get lost and more distorted.
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Old measuring cups
IMPROVED TOOL.
I bake a lot and I’ve always had issues with measuring cups how they are connected and waste too much space.
My proposal is to make something that is not only smaller and waste less space but also looks nice sculpturally. .
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LOS MANANTIALES.
Final project: We modeled a building that is already existing with its complex curves and landscape included. This was a group project and required several iteration before the final which we designed on out own.
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Perspective view
GROUP DESIGN.
Site plan
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INDIVIDUAL DESIGN.
My focus was on the landscape, I wanted to make a clear and defined pathway which would lead up to the new ‘los manantiales� this would help eliminate some security issues one may have with having an open space.
section / perspective view
INDIVIDUAL DESIGN.
This project was extremely challenging in many ways but the greatest success came with practicing through trial and error. Although I felt there were more failures than triumphs I feel like I accomplished more than I have ever.
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Floating point of view
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THANK YOU
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