Domus Final Presentation

C5 - Kakadu Site - Additional Project by Jason McLean
As an extra requirement i had to create internal perspectives of our design of the domus project. It additionally gave myself and most likely others as well what the actual design looks like from an internal view, and once again managed to tackle the brief what i thought to be quite successful. With the louvres being a key concept to the design, which allowed the ability to see right through the building from outside in, creating good cross ventilation and also being made out of recycled materials. All up i believe it worked well, for the requirements, the location and the purpose of this project. What are your thoughts??

This is just an external perspective taken from the balcony looking through the building to the end where the bedrooms are located

An internal perspective looking the same direction as the first image looking through the building showing where the kitchen, table, couches, study area and bedrooms are located.

Another external perspective taken down the side of the balcony looking closer to the bedrooms and the study area. The internal floor is higher that the external balcony which helps prevent water coming through when it rains

The internal perspective of through the other side of the previous image showing the study area and the bedrooms. The louvres are located higher for added privacy yet still allows for the cross ventilation and the see through effect



The bedroom doors all slide from both sides to also allow the see through affect again. Everything ties in together to create the overall affect.

The living area from the other end showing the study desk with computers, the table and kitchen, showing the overall perspective from the opposite end

Domus + final thoughts

Viewing everyones blog on copacobana and working at close proximity to many of the groups in the studio leading up to the critiques it was evident that the bar was really lifted across the board for this project. The models were complex, detailed and read really well as did the posters. Working as a group was at times challenging but with the mix of people came a mix of skills and the project benefitted from this as did each individual in the group learning from the other members. I felt the concept of client and architect fell through, rather each time we met with our client team it was a general discussion about each of our projects and offering suggestions to each other, it worked well in the end after the idea of architects and clients was lost.

C6 + model construction

C6 + final submission (PART 2)

Annotated South Section South Wall Section
South Elevation

C6 + final submission

After several attempts I was unable to upload our final poster (I think the file was too big) however I have posted all the final drawings.


First Floor Plan @ 1:50, this plan indicates how the building sits in the landscape, the south deck meets the contours of the land hence not requiring balustrading, the east deck mimics the fall of the roof. Also shown is the structural columns that support the roof and the way they sit within the landscape and how the shape and define spaces in and around the building. The large roofs shelter spaces beyond the circumference of the dwelling hence this coupled with the angled supports creates further living spaces within the environment.
Ground Floor Plan @ 1:50 indicates the stump grid, location of water tanks and how the shower and toilet is accessed via a decked path, the decking continues inside the cylindrical rooms however it runs in the opposite direction.

Roof Plan @ 1:50, this gives a rough indication of the heights of the roof, and indicates their surface area and how they sit above the buildings. This plan was fundamental in drawing our sections and elevations as like in the design process when it came to our final drawings the roof proved the most difficult to draw. Hence as we were working as a team and each member working on different drawings it was essential to have one source of information that meant the drawings were consistent.

Rather then using text this diagram was integral in conveying several of our design and function concepts, protection againt prevailling winds and the way our roof functioned were elements that we evolved over the duration of the project.

East Elevation

C4 Domus..

This is our final poster for Domus. We placed a story board along the bottom of the page to show our design process and inspirations.

M I N I M A

Minima Posters. Ben Fagan-Nolan

Project 3: Domus

My thoughts on this project was that it was a really good project, and I enjoyed working in a team, as I know that I couldn't have come up with our (C2) idea on my own. I am happy with the way that our design projects out into the environment, and also with the way that you enter the building, by using the staircase as a way to guide people upstairs into the more public area of the living room and kitchen. I also liked the covered walkway that provided access to the rooms downstairs, and also helped to keep the rooms cool, and the use of the lake to cool the South Easterly breeze before it enters the house. I am not entirely happy with the end shape of the top floor as it projects out into a straight edge, whereas the rest of the buidling is curved.

DOMUS Model

C2-Final Posters and Model

MODEL:

ABOVE: Model showing roof line and overhang which provides shade to house.

ABOVE: Model showing overall form of design and how its relationship to the dry creek bed (which we used as a natural path to the house) and lake.

ABOVE: Model showing entry to house. Wanted the staircase to invite people upstairs to the more public area of living and kitchen. We did this by tapering the stairs and projecting them out in front of the house, making them the first thing you come across.

POSTERS:

ABOVE: Site Plan showing dry creek bed, lake and slope of site.

ABOVE: Development page, also showing site, model and inspirations.

ABOVE: Ground floor plan.

ABOVE: Top floor plan.

Please Note: There are 2 more posters that showed the section, elevations and wall detail, but for some reason they aren't loading.

C2-Inspiration

ABOVE: Troppo Architects, Rozac House. We used Troppo Architects as the main influence as Troppo Architects specialise in sustainable, tropical buildings. The Rozac House was especially influential as it is located very near to our site. We liked the way that the building projected out into the landscape, which we incoporated into our final design. We also looked at how the building responded to the environment, using this, along with our individual research, as a guide on what we needed to include into our design in order to make it sustainable.

ABOVE: We liked the use of a covered walkway to provide access to the rooms, as this helps to make the rooms only one room deep (which is important in helping to cool down the house with cross-ventilation), and provides shading to the house and also integrates inside and outside.

ABOVE: One of the photo's we received of the site. We wanted to reflect the patterns and textures found in the site in our building. We tried to incorporate this pattern into our vertical timber batten cladding.

mock-up models - C6 celeste cafra + carl naidoo + ben fagan-nolan

Modelling the 'sail' roof concept proved harder then imagined, it was difficult to record the exact angles and shape when you are working with material, which makes it difficult to merry the model and drawings. Using pins was a fast and efffect way to visual the dwelling.

Once we defined the two spaces and decided to seperate then by a change in levels, a physical drop in step rather then a partition or series of doors, these models show our approach to this, and another attempt at the roof, molding copper and welding wire to create the shape which coudl then be cladded.

Modelling another potential roof structure roughly at a scale of 1:200

We were really happy with this model, using fine foam we scored it to define the forms and the pins acted as the structural supports. From this the final roof concept evolved. Roughly at a scale of 1:200

Constructing the roof at a bigger scale 1:100 and positioning the individual buildings underneath gave us an idea of space and adjustments that needed to be made.