Figuring Out Program

This week I experimented and made some drawdels out of the floor plan of my original building. From them I got three platforms with different cut outs. I intertwined the three in a way where they have interesting spacial relationships. I drew an axon to understand the spaces better. I also drew simple floor plans and an elevation to help me understand it better.

Drawdel's set up with one another

Axon

Plans

Elevation

Obstruction 4 (This and That) Final Crit

This past Friday we had our final crit for Obstruction 4.

Floor Plans

Original Perspectives (top) and New Perspectives (bottom)

Colt State Park (Site)

Section Dioramas 

Simple Massing Model

Final Plans and Sections

This weekend I got my final designs down on paper. My building is going to be a restaurant with both casual and formal seating. It will also have a function room and outdoor patio seating.

Design Design Design

I took the three perspectives that I was planning to base my building off of and sketched out how I thought the spaces would look in a plan view. I drew some rough sections to get a sense of the heights and lengths of the spaces. 

I then took a straight edge to the shape and tried to define it more. I did this to both the plans and sections. 

More Design Options

Our next task for the This and That House was to create at least 3 more perspectives from the interior perspectives of our house.

Obstruction 4: This and That

Our first task for the fourth obstruction was to take fragments of interior perspectives of our house and create new perspectives out of them.

Then we were asked to have another person (Emily) recreate one of the views we had already created. After, I gave her another fragment of an interior view and she was asked to create her own drawing of it.

Exquisite Corpse Final Crit

Today we had our final crit for the Exquisite Corpse project. We had to collage all of our final drawings and I also made a model for the critics to understand my project better.

Floor Plans (the black represents what is sunken into the ground, the grey represents what is above, and the brown represents the ground plane)

Sections (the brown represents the ground)

Site Plan

Collage of Entire Site

Close Up Collage

Model

Interrelating the Site and Building

I chose a site for my project: outside of the Theatre of Marcellus.

Around the theatre, even within the theatre, is a lot of housing whether it be houses or apartments so I decided to make my building a house and kept the program similar to the Villa Besnus. I finally drew out plans and a section that worked for the building. I also drew an axonometric of the building to get a sense of the massing of it.