Project 3:C8 Domus Final 3D Views

Project 3:C8 Domus Final Floor Plan, Sections and Detail Drawing

Site Plan
Floor Plan

Sections

Detail Drawing

Project 3:C8 Domus Room Design Process

Room design process

Final Room designed

Project 3:C8 Domus Roof Development

Final Roof

Roof designed for Ventilation

Roof design process

Domus...

These are some of the working drawings we started out with for Domus. Here we played with ideas for the location for our site, eventually deciding to place it along the river with 270 degree water views. You can also see where we began to identify the different spaces we would require in this design.
We trialled different forms in sketchup to see what worked best with the plan we had decided on. This stage of the development was really useful in working out our roof plan.
This is the plan we used in our final design. As you can see the roof design had not been finalised at this stage.
These are some examples of our influences for this design. The Rozak House by Troppo Architects as seen above, and the design by Glen Murcutt below. We really liked the open living spaces in Rozak house, and we drew on the nomad lifestyle of the Aboriginies in the Kakadu area as well to produce a design that brought the inside out.
This design by Glen Murcutt really influenced the louvers that we used in our final design for good air circulation.

Domus - Posters

Tablinum 2008

Tablinum...

Sorry guys, I know these have been posted kinda late...

I took my influence for this project from the traditional nature of the tablinum design in which you are able to see directly through the entrance, through the atrium and then through to the courtyard or peristyle on the other side. To keep with this theme I provided an open window directly opposite the entrance to allow you to see straight through. I also employed the bed as both a bed and a chair for the desk, as I layered the desk over the bed to minimise space. I also created the roof on a slant according to the functions of each part of the room. For example the roof over the bed is only at sitting height, while the entrance is high enough to stand in.

minima model

Here is my final model for the model. As i discussed in a previous post i drew my inspiration from an african hut and adapted it to express my relationship space and living....

The space would have timber cladding with a skylight runnng across from the top of one side to the other as demonstrated in the model.

Tablinum and Minima

Ideas for domus

My posters from the Minima project. They were a bit tattered after spending a few weeks in the lockers but nevertheless still intact. I focused a lot of my energy on how to arrange the internal spaces and allowed this to shape the exterior. From this a my design resembled a shell like structure so i decided to place it near the waterfront so the two could relate to eachother.

My first poster above shows developmental work and reserch and my second poster shows the final section, plan and elevation.

Minima Research

When I started reserching for the Minima project I began with looking for how best to use the internal space while keeping it to a minimum. At first, conventional square and rectangle houses came to mind and I explored where they triumphed and failed within the minima concept.

From there I moved to looking at unconventional housing methods that displayed minima attribttes. This house was designed by Luigi Colani and contains a "six square meter cylinder that holds a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom".

A view of the kitchen in the cylinder. The whole operatin is remote controlled, all you have to do is choose which room you want to use. There is a spare toilet adjacent to the cylinder.

A view of the bathroom in the cylinder.
This is a definite improvement from the conventional style housing, making more use of a defined space. It is very imaginative, I guess thats what minima requires, imagination...

Blog league tables

Copacabana,

I thought you might be interested in the latest blog league tables.

Copacabana – 133 posts

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Minima Final

Minima Presentation Sheet One.

Minima Prsentation Sheet Two.

Model as a whole.

Model as seen from the entrance end.

Model as seen from above with the play of light and shadow.

The key design motif for my Minima was the spatial relationship between the inhabiter and the architectural form. Located on the waterfront boardwalk adjacent to the Carousel the Minima adopts local materialistic aesthetics in the form of rusted iron as a cladding and timber for the interior, I complemented the Minima with its immediate surroundings so as to emphasise the relationship between the form and its environment to be experienced as a whole.

The Minima itself has been designed as a functionalist minimal living space where everything can be concealed from view; in most instances the utilities and fixtures are housed in the central core, keeping the need for servicing and plumbing to a minimum.
The above model images demonstrate the timber framing concept and how the utilities and appliances are housed into the central core. If you study the model closely you will notice how one timber element begins where it ends. I wanted to emphasise the importance of the interior living space and the timber frame work, which is why the cladding was not applied to the exterior.

C2 Concept Model

ABOVE: Concept Model

ABOVE: View from Above

ABOVE: Entry Point