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Sarina Adelle Da Costa Gomez

DM Student Lodge 3 _ Design Portfolio


Sarina Adelle Da Costa Gomez

DM Student Lodge 3 _ Design Portfolio

Architectural Association School of Architecture

CONTENT

Submitted to S. Dodd + M.Self

10.2013. Hooke Park, Beaminster, Dorset.


BEDROOM 1 page 7-15

BEDROOM 2 page 16-25

This

portfolio was

Student Lodge 3

is a

60m2

accommodation currently being built by the design and make cohort in Hooke Park, scheduled to be completed by late

This

2013.

portfolio is a short graphic exploration of

the possible approaches to inhabitation, from the perspective of human dimensions and range of motion, factoring in light and flexibility.

SOCIAL SPACE page 26-39


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The Beginning


Our approach to site has always been interactive. These photographs show the early stages of our design process where

we worked our way

through full scale volumetric mock-ups as a space-finding and view-finding exercise.

By placing sofa in the middle of what we envisioned to be our living room, and hosting a social event with volumes on site, we aimed at observing where

people gravitated towards and then collectively revisited our sketches and models accordingly.

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Bedroom 1


The

bedrooms

were

all

sequentially

‘tested’

against occupation of different stages of built work. The first ‘inhabitants’ were invited onto site when only the decks were completed and the first wall of bedroom

1 was erected. I was eager to see

where people with no knowledge of our design

and approach would envision themselves within the space and how they would move around on the decks.

Once

more walls were up it was also wonderful

to see how the light made its way through

the windows at different times of the days, delineating, eliminating and creating spaces.

As

our daily activities and tasks prompt different

purposes for natural light, how we move with[in] these rooms changes and shifts as we should be allowed to change shift with them.

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sleep settle

wander

ponder

chosen direction alternative choices

Suramya Kedia. - 23 - 1.62M. - 13.07. Bedroom 1 - 05.08.

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February. 9 AM

April. Noon

July. 3 PM

September . 5 PM

Sundiagrams. Bedroom 1 [and 2]

least backlight for computer use

direct sunlight

latest sleep

AM

AM AM

earliest rise

AM

direct sunlight

NOON

NOON

PM PM

view of sunset through windows

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The first and ‘most’ flexible of the configurations

would be the reconfigurable boxes made out of the ‘scrap’ beech that was milled but discarded for presence of knots etc by the

Shelter

team.

The

Timber Seasoning

dimensions of the boxes are

based on a median length and width defined by the average student height and the total number of boxes that would fit inside the rooms.

In

essence this would allow the students to walk into a completely empty room and [re]configure its occupation weekly, daily or hourly if desired.

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As Bedroom 1

takes shape the next task would

be to fabricate some of these boxes and invite

Suramya back to site, testing whether she would choose to locate herself similarly to her first

encounter with, what has now become a room beyond what she needed to imagine before. Mapping

the changes in behaviour as the space takes shape is as interesting as what that behaviour entails once the building is ‘complete’.

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Bedroom 2


Bedroom 2 was explored by two sets of visitors. The first, completely oblivious to our ideas, and the second, asked at the end of a 3 week summer build volunteer period. At this time the interior walls were framed out but not covered, but

the space was semi enclosed and volumetrically defined.

The

change in involvement prompted a

shift in behaviour: knowing our intentions, clearly guided the direction in which the occupants circulated through the spaces‌

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November. 9 AM

March. Noon

May. 3 PM

August. 5 PM

As

the heights inside change, there is a stronger

sense of ‘small’ versus ‘large space delineation in

Bedroom 2. This

also reflects in the way the

light travels in the space over the course of the day.

NEED FOR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT BASED ON SHADOWPATTERNS

How much of the preferred activity is lightdependent? And how much of that natural light can then be counted on? 19


First Round Responses 13.07. Vasco Lima Mayer. -22- 1.94M. Unha Park. -24- 1.76M.

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PREFERRED LOCATION TO SIT

[IN WINDOW SILL]

was curious that in the first encounter with the decks

neither

Vasco nor Unha chose to sit down anywhere in The intermediate part of the deck was already built

particular.

and could have indicated a smaller space within the room but

was disregarded by both. Instead they chose to stand at the edge of the platform and look out at the tree adjacent the refectory.

Moving

through the spaces with

Camino

and

Dominik

on

the other hand, was essentially a confirmation of what we had anticipated as a team. the lowered ceiling at quite nicely.

Peculiar

The built-in nooks in the windows, sleeping height; it all came together

here was especially the difference in

height between the two summer build volunteers, as the taller of the two, would stretch to reach

Camino

Dominik, higher, and

Second Round Responses. 20.09 Dominik Herrlinger. -22- 1.86M. Camino Vilanova -29- 1.64M.

seemed more comfortable seated, and looking up at

the height of the future windows.

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Inspired

Wall Peg System

Kerf Wall and many of its predecessors, this would be a slightly more ‘built in’ approach to flexibility, at an adjustable height and width for varying purposes. As the plasterboard we chose over the course of these past few weeks, will be mounted with supporting battens behind, the holes for the pegs could coincide with that support system. By providing the holes [and pegs] in advance, we could reduce the risk of future students drilling ‘random’ holes and not having enough support for whichever shelving would follow. by the simple everyday shelf bracket or the

ShelfBracket Alternative

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Social Space


The

last of the spaces explored in this portfolio

Social Space. With three sides of glazing ‘inhabitable wall’ we envisioned this space as versatile; built for as many purposes as we could anticipate, and more. As this is also the wall we plan on finishing last, it is the room with most to offer with regards actually ‘building in’ the flexibility. is the

and a wide

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Vasco 1.94m

Suramya 1.60m

Nick 1.84m

Unha 1.75m

Camino 1.65m

Dominik 1.86m

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Part

of our narrative has always been the

integrated re-use of to source nearby.

The

materials we’ve managed windows are recombined

glazing units from glaziers in

Bridport. The steel

columns in this space were collected during the dismantling of the

Rampisham BBC Radio Hooke

transmittance station up the road from

Park. The

first two examples would utilize salvaged

aluminium ducting we’ve taken apart into sheets.

Prototyping is underway, but it seems these sheets

can be bent or fixed as flat panels as the first and second speculation show.

The third and fourth option would rely on ‘rejected’ Beech that the Timber Seasoning Shelter team is not able to utilize for their project. In the first instance it would be planking at the milled dimension cut to size, but in the second option we would take on the failed bent pieces.

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We have come to know this place: its response to morning sunlight and afternoon haze, and its unique patterns of daily occupation. We recognize the advantage of being able to design something and build it completely attune to its surroundings. We also recognize the rare privilege we share to be able to adapt directly to our findings on site and amend accordingly. As we move towards our written thesis work, this relentless curiosity, this inclination to adjust, to constantly reconfigure and re-examine is revisited. How do we calibrate and allow for this flexibility, as temporary inhabitants wish to make the space their own as they too, come to know this place‌. 40


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