This is where my design for tablinum started. Ilooked at the anthropometrics amd measurements of my own body and begun experimenting with shapes that would best serve two purposes... That is to sleep and study.

I chose to bend the plywood as i found that using the concrete blocks was a waste of space. The plywood could also be bended into the shape of my body, making the design more comfortable and workable..

You are able to see in the drawings above the different design concepts that i came up with. The final design however i believe was the most suited to the brief.

Here you can see the site plan and the two sections. I located my design on the second floor outside the library. Here there is good access to library resources, a quiet area and close to a toilet.

You can see the size of the design and its suitability as a minimal space, and an area for study and sleep...

Tablinum

These are my two finished Tablinum posters..


The first poster deals with the design and concept, using anthropometrics.


The Second poster displays my final design in context and plan.





I found the main ideas to be explored in this assignment was the way in which we could use the materials. By bending the plywood and using as minimal amount of concrete blocks, a comfortable, minimal and use able space was designed.

1ST WEEK PROJECT

The following Images are of the drawings done of the atrium in a lead up to Tablinum.

Section cut through atrium and elevator core.

Overall Image of the drawings showing the atrium in

PLAN, HORIZONTAL SECTION, VERTICAL SECTION.

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Thank you - Richard

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Some thought on Tablinum....

In Roman architecture, a tablinum (or tabulinum, from tabula, board, picture) was a room generally situated on one side of the atrium and opposite to the entrance; it opened in the rear on to the peristyle, with either a large window or only an anteroom or curtain. The walls were richly decorated with fresco pictures, and busts of the family were arranged on pedestals on the two sides of the room.

The tablinum was the office in a Roman house, the father's centre for business.

-Wikipedia

For the context of this project knowing exactly what Tablinum derived from. It is described as a place where work is conducted therefore it has specific requirements to which the design must follow. Spatial relationships must be considered as the room should accomodate a sleeping and working space.


The two studies of Da Vinci and Le Corbusier focused on these spatial relationships between architecture and people. These studies might serve to be useful in the development of the Tablinum project.

TABLINUM

3D PERSPECTIVE (SECTIONAL)

SECTION B.B

SECTION A.A

PLAN

tablinum research

THE TABLINUM

In Roman Architecture there was a room named the Tablinum The Roman domus was typically designed so that anyone standing in the vestibule could see straight through the atrium and tablinum to the colonnaded garden in the back of the house—a very impressive vista! In this room the family records were stored; here was the chest containing family finances. Here also elite families would display the imagines, busts of famous ancestors. In this room, too, the master of the house, the paterfamilias, would greet his many clients on their morning visits The tablinum often had an attractive mosaic floor and wall paintings.

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Myself (Richard) and your tutor Lana van Galen look forward to vewing this blog as it progresses over the next 12 weeks. Be open, expressive, constructive, honest, polite, and imaginative in your posting.