Working Models

1:100 Model

House 2: Journalist

Left set of stairs is the second dwelling.
Right is the gallery space.

1:50 Model

Progress Sketches

Ideas gathered from proposition from project 2 and concept from Bordeaux House

Sketches of final idea

Project 3 - Week 2 Progress

After the site visit on the Tuesday. The studio class decided to get a head start on the site model within the week. Below is an image of the progress of one day.

Analytical studied drawings

Zones - Public to more private spaces

Structural strategy

Windows - Types of openings

Proposition Model

Facade openings

Materials:
- Sponge

Window openings of one side of Bordeaux house.

Windows mapped into plan. (Sponge symbolising walls and circles as rooms and the centre as an imagined landscape)

Window openings mapped out differently. Vice versa of the above mapping.

Sponge indicated as imagined landscape and the gaps between the sponges as zones/ room areas of an internal space.

Zones - Public to more private spaces

Materials:
- acrylic sheets
- perspex sheets
- white card

Zones indicated in different colours and degree of transparency show level of occupancy.

Levels taken apart to show how its structured.

Model completely taken apart as a puzzle to analysis the parts to the Bordeaux house.

Structural Strategy

Materials:
- acrylic sheets

Structural model boxed inside the building area.

Illusion of a 3 dimensional image done via thin acrylic sheets.


Structure seen on once side of model.