[univ. project] volume

[flatfoot]

Ok, now that it's come to an end I can post my uni project. 1st year, 2nd semester.

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We were to develop an abstract volume, make a small scale model (1 liter fill) and then blow the scale up so that the internal volume of the volume is 200m3. That makes 80m2 in a normal 2,5m ceiling box but with various shapes most turned out getting 60-70m2. Then make up a program - 1 or 2 persons living space. There might have been a slight emphasis on the technical side of it all, since we were to draw almost all of the drawings at 1:20 scale.
I expect something more down-to-earth the next year, although this was a great and fun kick-start to designing.

Critique very welcome.

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Some sketches
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The initial model (sorry for the self-indulgent photos)

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The drawings (pdf format)
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The model (1:50)

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An interior which was more of a rendering practice

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[mperna]

good job. I especially like the last two photos, but i think the overhang might be a little too massive.

Nice render- what software did you use?

[drummond]

Nice response to your brief, and the interior shot is very nice.
All your sketches and indeed the wood block model have a much more elegant sliding connection tho' and I sincerely believe that would have been a better way to express the "real" model you displayed, rather than the starnge kind of almost chamfered joint, which loses the simplicity of the original idea.
I agree with mperna, too about the overhang....thats going to need some serious engineering.Good job tho'

[feigetl]

I really think that is a cool project. I especially like your progress from the initial sketch to the pdf's. It amazes me when I see some first year stuff like yours!

[flatfoot]

thanks for the kind feedback

mperna: archicad, max, brazil.

Forgot to mention that...it really bothered me too that we had to add the walls to the outer side of the model instead of in which would keep the original form intact. But rules were rules... 200m3. You can see the original shape if you look at the section drawing - it's the inside of the walls.

[feigetl]

wow just looked at ur last few photos well done, I really think its exceptional.

[Stijn]

Good stuff you got there.
Though the size might be too big for just 1 person - or the other person has to get over the first when they want to go to bed, which might be cosy:D - , I don't mind it because being 1st year project. Only a tip for the future. :) (try changing places of bedroom and study)

[flatfoot]

Forgot to mention the construction things aswell and you probably can't understand the text in the drawings (sorry).
About the overhang... The outer two walls are supposed to be made of laminated wood and the rest (floor, roof) anchored to them so I think it is possible and it wouldn't trip over.
The idea of lifting the whole thing in the air came later...steel joints on concrete fundaments. The living room has big sliding doors and the study just glass mounted on wooden frame.

[trogers]

quick crit: I'm curious to know how you came to the resolution to simply bevel the juxtaposition of the two forms. Your study model has grains in the same direction, yet the finished model has the lower element with a horizontal wood laminate and a vertical wood laminate on the upper portion. Why is there the necessity to delineate the difference between pieces that didn't exist in the study model? just curious...

also, I'd think about the site and the relationship to the object. your study model has a precipice which might be quite interesting... the way the building could be in situ might become another layer to the design.

[flatfoot]

thanks for the reply
trogers: At the first stage, the model was intended to show the volume as a whole, but later (after bulking it up) it turned out looking a bit dull/awkward with just a one-direction laminate facade, so I transformed it into a clash of 2 pieces. And the juxtaposition was made as it is because if I completely outlined one piece it was on the expense of the other and this way keeping both somewhat equal.

As for the site you read my mind... i'd defenetly place it on a cliff or something like that, but again the terrain of the model was to be flat.

[flatfoot]

Good stuff you got there.
Though the size might be too big for just 1 person - or the other person has to get over the first when they want to go to bed, which might be cosy:D - , I don't mind it because being 1st year project. Only a tip for the future. :) (try changing places of bedroom and study)


Stijn, it was meant to be a house for an architect so his sleep time is nothing compared to his work time hence the bigger study :D

[Stijn]

Bwahaa, got me there! :rock on:

[flatfoot]

Right, I forgot to mention the group corrections

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[jparchitectus]

I tend to like your sketch the best. I realize it is too far along to go back, but something about the proportions and the connection between the two forms was nicer there then its final conception. I also like the vertical expression of your sketch lines opposed to the horizontals of your well shot model.

Some of the window puntures also raise questions in me...something about how the door and two windows falls dead center on the side elevation is a bit wierd or forced. The long slots seem to work well here as opposed to the repetitive equally spaced single units.