Design Studio Project 2 - Rough model, plans & section

Above on the left is the upper level view and on the right is the lower level view.
Well guess these stuff will become my second project. Just got the book 'through the canvas' from the uni bookshop; good book i have to say. Guess i just need some time to understand what's in it.
And below are the plans and the section.

There is a house by Tadao Ando called Shinobu or something like that;there is a great use of light in that house. Same as the house i posted last week, simple combination of walls and openings form a beautiful spce. If minimization is the extreme modernism, then in my project 2, i really need to chop off quite a lot to achieve a "simple but nice" space as i mentioned above.

Design Studio Project 2 - More rendered images

Here come more rendered images.
One on the left shows the interior night view; vice versa the right one shows the exterior day view.

Design Studio Project 2 - some inspirations

Some times you don't need to see directly what you want to see; they will reveal theirselves after all.

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Casa Gaspar House by Alberto Campo Baeza. Intersecting and overlapping blocks form beautiful space.

Design Studio Project 2 - Rough 3D

As we are using Revit for our BIM assignment, I spent some time made a new model with this amazing programme.The one on the left is with only natural light, and obviously as you see, the right one is the night view with only artificial light sources.

Design Studio Project 2 - Site choosing

When choosing the site, along the coast is an important aspect in my consideration. In the same time, this sea side place should be peaceful which purify people's heart and release them from all burdens. With all these, the Aegean Sea becomes the best choice.



Either on an Aegean island or along the sea shore of the Greek peninsula will be great, the important thing is the sea there can tolerate and forgive all. If I have a chance to leave life, certainly there will be where I go.

Design Studio Project 2 - "If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint?"

Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967)
Rooms by the Sea, 1951
Oil on canvas, 29 1/4 x 40 in. (74.3 x 101.6 cm)
Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903
1961.18.29

The sentence in the title is actually by Hopper himself. This is also what he shows in all his paintings - people struggle and suffer but they cant tell; all their feelings are expressed by the paintings. From the paintings, we dont hear anything but we understand more than hearing them.

In the Rooms by the sea, one interesting feature is, different from all his other works, no human figures appear in the painting. However the image is "more an evocative metaphor of silence and solitude than the transcription of an actual scene"; the effect of sunlight on the wall, dreamlike sea water and most important, an opening door, all the elements form a completed story. My understanding of the storyis, in the simple way, people trying to escape from their suffering life and finding their own peace. It is reasonable when consider the alias gave by Hopper - The jumping off place (but he deleted it becuase its "malign overtones").

And heres comes my narrative (even sounds stupid as I said in class):

A non-Greek speaker spent all his summer learning scuba diving in a concrete box.

This is all from my imagination and it fits my understanding to the painting: people escaping from tiring and suffering life to a new life. Non-Greek speaking expresses the feeling of loneliness as the site I choose is near the Aegean Sea. Scuba diving in the concrete box means the breakthrough. Guess one thing I missed is the time, I mean the moment we experienced from the painting, how we come in just after the guy "jumped off". Hopefully I can develope more on this.

Parti and Poche

Partis


The left one is explaining how the building forms a "windmill" with all its rooms and corridors. This idea is actually from the idea of "circulation", the only differnce is that, inmy point of view, the circulation in this building all starts from one point (which is the center of the "windmill" and also the living room of the villa), and spreads into the rest part of the building.
The top one on the right show how different spaces in the villa face the sea. This arrangement enables people to have a large sight range. The bottom one is about how the rest of the villa surrounds the courtyard and forms a semi-open space.


Poche_Plan



Poches_Sections

In the final one below, I used quite many human figures to show the scale.

Thinking while modeling

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Comparing to Villa Mullerand all the other 3 villas, Can Feliz seems to be smaller and simpler; however sitting on an inclined site, the building is divided into different levels connect with steps. In the case, the relationship between the site and the building becomes an important feature for this villa. To show this feature in our model, we dicided to show the section cut in the way shown below:

(Concept plan)

To largely present the real geometry, we made the site 'layer by layer", which shows the contours of the surrounding area. Instead of making it a slope, more detailed feature can be revealed.

Models_Can Feliz

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