Episode 3.2- Architectural references

As part of your process, analyze, read, explore, question, be curious about precedents as:

Architects:
Mies van der Rohe, The Barcelona Pavilion, Spain, 1929;
Giuseppe Terragni, Casa sul Lago per artista, Italy, 1933;
Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, USA, 1951;
Le Corbusier, Le Cabanon, Cap-Martin, France, 1952;
Alvar Aalto, Experimental House, Muuratsalo, Finland, 1953;

Contemporary design on Modular Houses and/or buildings:
Shigeru Ban, Rocio Romero, Toyo Ito, Future Systems, Kas Oosterhuis, Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn, Office of Mobile Design (OMD), etc.;

http://www.fabprefab.com

Artists :
Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, The Everland Hotel, 2007.

PHASE 3: THE OMNI ROOM

Episode 3.1- Integration

You will design a modular living structure that adapts, relocates and reorients itself to changing environments, contests, places, views, use, and program.

Its contemporary conception engages materials and surface treatments.

The so called Ever-land structure or Omni Room expands and contracts its dimensions. The flexibility of the modular unit can be integrated with outdoor paths, terraces, decks, patios or/and gardens.

Program

The Living Structure or the Omni Room is considered as:

One Bedroom Unit of 650-700 sq.ft. (conceptual phase)

Total Area available: 24’ x 48’ = 1150 sq.ft. (final design)

Max interior Height: variable from 10’ to 18’

Each unit could have a 2-story height space, and main living/dining/cooking/sleeping places.

Service spaces as bathroom, closet/laundry/small storage.

Each unit should have outdoor spaces and maximize adjacency to outdoor spaces.

Possible addition of one extra bedroom and/or studio with bathroom/closet.

Process

Starting from the previous Light-box exercise, reconsider your light-diagrams as generators of the new spaces. Treat your cuts and their projecting lines as solids. Work with transversal and longitudinal lines and with their intersections to conceptualize new spatial possibilities.

In your design, you must include:

Circulation systems. Consider paths and transitions spaces serving the unit inside and outside.

Entrance/exit options that establish relationships between indoor and outdoor spaces.

Diagram of densities (unit/voids). Combinations and spatial variety of solids and voids. Voids could be considered as surfaces (ex. ground floor garden, outdoor paths, open terrace or deck), or volumes (covered terrace, space underneath or above the unit, patios, voids within the unit). You could involve the space below or above the unit, so that this communal space could pass underneath, flow into your unit, or be treated vertically.

Façade treatment. Skin and structure. Cladding or sunscreens. Differentiated materials. You must integrate the Pattern’ exercise.

Parameters:

Modular dimensions; hierarchy of parts; adjacency of spaces; organizational possibilities;

Spatial flexibility over time with possible expansion of the unit, possible volumetric addition, and/or combinations of more units;

Horizontal and vertical combinations of parts of the unit;

Sectional interlocking possibilities;

Spatial relationships.

Commodity and delight — ease of entry into the house and circulation among the public and private zones; accommodation of natural light and airflow; generosity and sufficiency of space; surprises; unusual use of materials; surface manipulation.

Requirements

Process drawings using Autocad 2007

3d investigations and modeling using 3D studio Max

Physical Model

Final presentation

Due Mon, Dec. 03/2007