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.

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.