Assignment 3-Progress2

My client the superintendent(construction superviser)has bought his land on:

Lot2,corner of West street and Second Street, Brompton

& he will be sharing his land with his neighbour the windowman.

his dwelling; #inspiration5

Assignment 3
being located into a new site;brompton
how shall he position his dwelling;
how shall his dwelling react to his neighbours?

_landscape
_urban street-scape
_interior design
_exterior facade
_carpark

his dwelling; #inspiration4

building: NYH by Makoto Yokomizo
(image taken from aat+Makoto Yokomizo architects website)

Submission 1 - equus

Life?Why? What have i done wrong to deserve such a hard life. Why me?

These words has been lingering in his mind since the death of his parents. Yet this had never once stopped him from believing in his faith. It only made his soulful character grew even more.

"Life, your enviroment is a reflection of you.Your enviroment is a mirror of your character"

Faith, Wisdom & Action

(image: Digital 2 -An interior perspective of the sky-well staircase+adjacent mirror on the glass wall panels)

He knows if he polishes his mirror everday(metaphorically speaking),he will turn his way of analysing things around him. But how?by prayer. Never once had he doubted the power of prayer. As things will always happen for a reason. You might think it is the end of the road, but its just a new beginning.David's soulful character got him through the bumpy roads and awarded him a career of a lifetime.

As a Z-generation contractor, he loves exploring the maximum possibilities of construction. Exposing it to the maximum. to showoff its beauty intead of disguising them.In David's new dwelling in Scotland, he adapted that in his exterior skin of his dwelling, while exposing the inner spaces with as much natural light as possible.Light shine through sky-celings and sky-wells to light up the cramped building.(image: Digital 1 - An exterior perspective of his dwelling)(image: Digital 1 - Sky-wells + glass ceiling panels)

Instead of the usual flat glass panels, he explored the curved glass panels to see its compressive stress,which in the end created this nice glass panels in steel frame.(image: Digital 2 -An exterior view of the front-side dwelling)(image: Digital 2 - An interior view from the study room to the living room)

His obsessive habit of wanting to explore the maximum possibilities of construction(which i think is an construction engineer's duty) made him model up his dream house with full of constructions exposed.(It acted as an art as well)

(image below: Analogue 1)

(image below: Analogue 2)

and these lead to more extravagant construction structures.

Summary
○ Soulful
○ Make use off all space
○ Find maximum natural light source entry
○ Exposure of construction details
○ Obsessive exploration of construction techniques
○ Don't waste any small inch of space
○ Love light;bright

but which dwelling will he built?he live? thou shall let him decide.

his dwelling; #inspiration3

by Junya Ishigami;
by Kumiko Inui; by Hideyuki Nakayama;

his dwelling; #exploration5

exploration of space + passive light source

I had allocated maximum possible direct natural light to his dwelling(as seen color coded in yellow). Though this building is cramped between buildings, all area spaces managed to receive enough light through out the day. :)

his dwelling; #inspiration2

Moriyama HouseTokyo,Japan,2002-05by Ryue NishizawaHouse aTokyo,Japan 2006by Ryue Nishizawa
Another architect you guys should check out is Stephen Taylor.He does such architectural works as well :)

his dwelling; #exploration4

Further exploration from my first 3D sketchup;
Will sketchup-ed my final digital later tonight :)

Light: an important aspect of the dwelling due to the limited resources caused by the tight location space.I have positioned 2 direct light wells;
a)direct light source to the living+bedroom
b)staircase
But how shall i input the character into his dwelling micro/macro-ly besides the concept of having to make full use of every space without having to spend more haha?Hmmm that i shall explore :)

his dwelling; #inspiration1

I watched a documentary just awhile ago on channel ABC called "Buildings That Shaped Britain - Birth Of The Metropolis" at 6.30pm.
Architectural history of Scotland new town layout was aired.Awesome documentary...it might not help in studio,but what the heck? =)
Next week on thursday6.30pm ABC,the topic would be on CountrySide Revolution...=)

his dwelling; #exploration3

my mind map;

as the company expanded, David was appointed an additional post in the company. Besides being the director, he was appointed the manager of the new open branch in Scotland.
His new dwelling location;
Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
An embalmed passage off the main high street.
photo credit:http://www.flickr.com/

personal input: Just want to give a self-location to input an enviromental feel to the awesome dwelling i am going to create for my wonderfull client David:)
am i on the right track?haha cheers :)