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01 View of house and barn owned by lovers and the gardens and farm land they own 02 View of modest house owned by lovers 03 Apple orchard 3 years after planting. 04 Location amongst other rural villages in France. 05 Speculation of the height of trees over the years
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Tree Dwelling-- Apple Lovers’ Dwelling, Apple Orchard, Mesnil-Clinchamps, France
I throw the apple at you, and if you are willing to love me, take it and share your girlhood with me; but if your thoughts are what I pray they are not, even then take it, and consider how short-lived is beauty.--Plato
Sketch diagram showing movement of couple picking apples and sharing a kiss.
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Tree Dwelling-- Apple Lovers’ Dwelling, Apple Orchard, Mesnil-Clinchamps, France Sketch evolution of design with apple lovers’ and their lives in mind
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Tree Dwelling-- Apple Lovers’ Dwelling, Apple Orchard, Mesnil-Clinchamps, France
Apple lovers ritual to the space and get an intimacy away from the house.
Edible apples stored in dark and ventilated space
Early inedible apples taken off saplings to help them grow and given to animals on the farm.
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Tree Dwelling-- Apple Lovers’ Dwelling, Apple Orchard, Mesnil-Clinchamps, France
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K-I-S-S-I-N-G room
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Viewing platform over rural countryside
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Spiral rope staircase evoking playful movement and adventure
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Apple storage
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Bird, insect and donkey feed.
Wooden-Block-House-by-Tadashi-Yoshimura-Architects Possible ways to have a woven timber facade using modular timber panels CLARISSA YEE UNIT 22 YEAR 5
Tree Dwelling-- Apple Lovers’ Dwelling, Apple Orchard, Mesnil-Clinchamps, France Components and making
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Chocolate Dwelling- Community Reading Rooms for Children, Liverpool,UK
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01 Library- Closure Late 2012
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Site: next to original library that will be closing its doors later on in the year
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Chocolate Dwelling- Community Reading Rooms for Children
“box” opens up on the backside to reveal view to trees
Individual reading spaces within the larger dwelling
Storage of books separate the spaces within
meeting space for story time
“box” on street side respects the form and nature of the street aesthetic, while promsing something unique on the inside.
Connect the library with the Children’s Park.
keeps passageway open and uses columns to cantilever dwelling
childrens’ park
reading rooms
passage CLARISSA YEE UNIT 22 YEAR 5
Chocolate Dwelling- Community Reading Rooms for Children Original Blacksmiths at site between park and library The idea of the Park gates as an invitation to the park and welcoming childrens’ play in a fun way. It Is a dwelling that is both indoor and outdoor
ENTRANCE
Entrance to the Park- Welcoming and signifying the beginning of playtime
DECORATION
HANGING OBJECTS
Traditional ironmongery makes the most of decorative shapes for strength and interest
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Ironmongery is great for hanging baskets and the like the shapes and strength allows a variety of objects to be hung.
Chocolate Dwelling- Community Reading Rooms for Children ALLOWS FOR TRANSPARENCY
Allows for transparency from the existing library building by not blocking light and views from the building and also allows transparency from interior reading rooms and the exterior garden patio. The timber forms organic curved shapes mimicing the ironmongery style, and taking decorative approach to forming solutions so that the frills CLARISSA YEE UNIT 22 YEAR 5
Chocolate Dwelling- Community Reading Rooms for Children GATE TO CHILDRENS’ REALM
COLLAGE SHOWING USE OF THE BUILDING
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Chocolate Dwelling- Community Reading Rooms for Children
Details of timber construction
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Chimney dwelling - Volcano Trekking Retreat, Saint Flour, France.
Auvergne Volanoes
Trekker in the landscape
This area gets long cold winters and short hot summers
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Chimney dwelling - Volcano Trekking Retreat, ChaĂŽne des Puys, France.
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Wood used to mimic lava colomns to echo the history of the area.
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Hand made using the skills of the local area
Chimney dwelling - Volcano Trekking Retreat, ChaĂŽne des Puys, France. LAYOUT ACCORDING TO FIRE
Bedrooms heated from below from the fire
Secondary heat spaces
WCs with fireplaces
meeting gathering space for most warmth Primary heat spaces
Programs arranged by proximity to the fire- using the warmth of the fire to heat meeting area first and sleeping spaces second.
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Chimney dwelling - Volcano Trekking Retreat, ChaĂŽne des Puys, France.
WOVEN FACADE WITH VARYING TRNASPARENCY
Like the opinel knife, the component of this dwelling consist of little components and give two options for sumer and winter.
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