Design Studio Project 2 - Models

I used balsa wood for the whole building, to achieve a feeling of loneliness and boredom. Newspaper as the site... actually I have thought about using butter paper but in the case of showing a little bit of the man's life in the city, I used newspaper as the fundation of the building. The main reason I want to use paper is, they can imitate the cliff perfectly.

Design Studio Project 2 - Presentation board

Nothing special, just the presentation board I used for Project 2 Presentation. As I was the last one to present, pitifully, I don't think my classmates had seen it. Took me hours to make it. lol

Design Studio Project 2 - Poches

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The poches are a little bit confusing because the arrangement of the building. This time I tried to use furniture to show the scale Because for my character - who can't communicate with the people in this place (non-Greek speaker) and feel pretty lonely - it better shows no human in the drawing.
Only a few furniture, like sofas and lamp, strengthen the feeling of loneliness.

Design Studio Project 2 - Plans, section & elevation

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My building is generally a part of a villa for a city man to "escape" from his urban life. So I set the ground floor to 2.7m high which is comparingly low then the first floor. This floor is for his study and work room. Concrete platforms, heavy walls and stairs, few openings for light to come in, all the features form a space with pressure and boredom.

However the first floor is a much open space with no glazing but only openings. As I wrote before, the extending platform is the "jumping off" place for this city man to escape from his boring life. All the openings allow the beautiful "Aegean" sunshine and the lovely sea view to go into the house and to attract the man to jump into the sea (scuba diving I mean...). The narrow pathway is kind of pushing the man, so he can't just stay in the room and have to go to enjoy the
new world outside. As Harold said, it's a journey, a journey to help him feel something different.

Design Studio Project 2 - Sketches

These sketches are done through my whole project. You can tell there are great similarities between them and my second model and my final model. Even though they are not really clear but they really gave me great lot help.

Revit or other soft wares are pretty good at visualization, however while sketching by hands, it's much easier and faster to improve the ideas.