i've decided on a final design for my addition which will consist of a studio space, library, and small outdoor patio. i realized i wanted to do these specific rooms because i felt they were the only rooms that were missing from frank lloyd wright's original design. im going to place the addition above the entrance in order to make a statement with the room and at the same time seclude the addition from the public. the room will help enhance the appeal of the entrance and also shelter it with more ceiling space.
im going to use steel, elm wood, brick, limestone concrete, and a translucent glass material as well. my goal is that by using some of the same materials i will keep a cohesive feeling of the room to the rest of the house and incorporate new materials that wright might have been interested in using. the studio will be almost completely open to nature which is the main design criteria that wright worked around.
the final presentation for this project is due wednesday so im going to have to kick it into gear to get it all done since i will need a basswood model, drawings, a final laid out presentation board and i will also have to redo the first part of the project to make my drawings more visible and appealing. wish me luck
p.s. the final presentation will be a silent critique meaning we do not get to talk about the project but we will be critiqued on only what we have on the board. in a sense the board will do the talking for me so i need to make this one good!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
addition to the perfect home
part 2 of the precedents in architecture project has been assigned and it is going to be really fun! i am to create an architectural program for a 3 room addition to the house. as simple as this sounds there is one challenge i will face: changing a design of frank lloyd wright. we are able to create whatever 3 rooms we would like and the square footage will be somewhere around 500 feet as the rooms are not to be too elaborate.
somehow i will need to create an addition that will make an impact on the house but be cohesive to the original design principles at the same time. trying to fix a design flaw of frank lloyd wright's is like trying to tell john mayer how to play the guitar. its going to be a difficult task but im feeling up to the challenge and i really wanna knock this design out of the park. especially since my presentation for the analysis of the house did not go so well. my drawings were too small and there was "too much information on the board." im going to redo the board for the very final presentation and make it visually appealing to compliment the amount of research and analysis i put into the first part of the project.
stay tuned for updates on this part and feel free to give me ideas of what i could do. where could i put the rooms? what kind of rooms should i add? how can i make a strong impact while staying in tune with the original buildings design? this part is due next wednesday so im going to start cracking down on it!
somehow i will need to create an addition that will make an impact on the house but be cohesive to the original design principles at the same time. trying to fix a design flaw of frank lloyd wright's is like trying to tell john mayer how to play the guitar. its going to be a difficult task but im feeling up to the challenge and i really wanna knock this design out of the park. especially since my presentation for the analysis of the house did not go so well. my drawings were too small and there was "too much information on the board." im going to redo the board for the very final presentation and make it visually appealing to compliment the amount of research and analysis i put into the first part of the project.
stay tuned for updates on this part and feel free to give me ideas of what i could do. where could i put the rooms? what kind of rooms should i add? how can i make a strong impact while staying in tune with the original buildings design? this part is due next wednesday so im going to start cracking down on it!
analysis of the robie house
frank lloyd wright's Robie House is one of the great homes in architecture history and is a precedent for any house to be designed in the future. i was fortunate enough to have this as my case study and i enjoyed learning all of the great features of the home that make is so famous. i wanted to share with you a few of the main aspects of the house that i found to be important to its notoriety.
horizontal planes:
this is major element in a lot of frank lloyd wright's buildings. this horizontality does so many things at once: it shows movement, utilizes a form to create space, dramatizes the structure, and can serve as a great juxtaposition to surrounding landscape. wrights main horizontal elements occur on his cantilevered roofs. these protrude out from the building and establish a great visual appeal to a pedestrian on the nearby streets while also establishing a relationship between form and function
shifting rectangles:
i see this building as starting from an exploding box and ultimately ending in the plans simple design of two rectangles shifting side by side one another. this form compliments the site which is 60' x 180' and utilizes every bit of space.
privacy:
wright designed his buildings FOR his clients and not for what society told him how houses should be designed. he recognized that a house was to be a place of solitude and comfort for its tenants and this is no more clear than in the robie house. with its entrance secluded away from the street, the perimeter wall surrounding the house, or the low ceilings and high walls, wright made the house applicable for a private space for its tenants.
horizontal planes:
this is major element in a lot of frank lloyd wright's buildings. this horizontality does so many things at once: it shows movement, utilizes a form to create space, dramatizes the structure, and can serve as a great juxtaposition to surrounding landscape. wrights main horizontal elements occur on his cantilevered roofs. these protrude out from the building and establish a great visual appeal to a pedestrian on the nearby streets while also establishing a relationship between form and function
shifting rectangles:
i see this building as starting from an exploding box and ultimately ending in the plans simple design of two rectangles shifting side by side one another. this form compliments the site which is 60' x 180' and utilizes every bit of space.
privacy:
wright designed his buildings FOR his clients and not for what society told him how houses should be designed. he recognized that a house was to be a place of solitude and comfort for its tenants and this is no more clear than in the robie house. with its entrance secluded away from the street, the perimeter wall surrounding the house, or the low ceilings and high walls, wright made the house applicable for a private space for its tenants.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
robie house
our second project was issued on friday and i am VERY excited about it. we are given a case study (master piece of architecture in this case) and are asked to analyze why it is a successful piece of work. i was given the opportunity to diagram and deconstruct frank lloyd wright's robie house. i've been diagramming it for a few days now and have a pretty good understanding as to the makeup of the house.
much has to do with shifting planes, privacy for the owner, an open floor plan, and long cantilevering roofs. much of what defines the house initially are the roofs that cantilever out from the building. these roofs protrude out and establish an overhead planes that defines a space below and also provides shade and shelter from the sun and rain/snow respectively.
the house is very interesting and i am really excited to further my explorations of it. on friday i need to have a few presentation boards showing my analysis of the house. after that, i am to rebuild the house in model form to an 1/8" scale. this will be a challenge as it will coincide with the final part of the project which entails my program to add a 3 room addition to the house. the final details of this part have not been ironed out by the professors but i am already thinking of it and the challenges i will face.
much has to do with shifting planes, privacy for the owner, an open floor plan, and long cantilevering roofs. much of what defines the house initially are the roofs that cantilever out from the building. these roofs protrude out and establish an overhead planes that defines a space below and also provides shade and shelter from the sun and rain/snow respectively.
the house is very interesting and i am really excited to further my explorations of it. on friday i need to have a few presentation boards showing my analysis of the house. after that, i am to rebuild the house in model form to an 1/8" scale. this will be a challenge as it will coincide with the final part of the project which entails my program to add a 3 room addition to the house. the final details of this part have not been ironed out by the professors but i am already thinking of it and the challenges i will face.
Friday, October 16, 2009
structured madness
project one of the 2009 school year has been completed. it was a project of abstraction. a project of imaginative thinking and deep abstraction. we were given an art composition and from that we were to complete 3 parts:
part 1: analyze the composition into what we feel it is depicting. using flimsy tracing paper and a pencil i attacked the drawing with ideas. the climax of part a was to be a finished self interpretation of our composition. the board was to be 24" x 24" and composed of black ink lines. my thoughts behind the composition were mainly based around the intersections of the lines. i brought the mindset that these lines were structural planes curving extravagantly into the air and that there was a webbing that aided in the withstanding of the structure. the piece was "Structured Madness"
-original composition
-my final drawing
part 2: create a foam core model expressing your new composition in 3D form. here i initially started with the idea that the planes intersecting were flat/straight. beams ran across as the webbing. this model was to be an initial creation of our 3D form.
-3/16" foam core model
this overall assignment was a good experience. although it was extremely abstract and was not supposed to be thought of as a "building," i did enjoy what i got out of it. i improved in my ability to think abstractly and to really deduce what it is i am looking at and interpret it in my own way. i am going to keep improving my work ethic with my initial ideas in the sense of creating more study models and a lot more freehand sketches. hope you enjoyed this first project and look forward to the next one....which will hopefully involve the designing of a building.
part 1: analyze the composition into what we feel it is depicting. using flimsy tracing paper and a pencil i attacked the drawing with ideas. the climax of part a was to be a finished self interpretation of our composition. the board was to be 24" x 24" and composed of black ink lines. my thoughts behind the composition were mainly based around the intersections of the lines. i brought the mindset that these lines were structural planes curving extravagantly into the air and that there was a webbing that aided in the withstanding of the structure. the piece was "Structured Madness"
-original composition
-my final drawing
part 2: create a foam core model expressing your new composition in 3D form. here i initially started with the idea that the planes intersecting were flat/straight. beams ran across as the webbing. this model was to be an initial creation of our 3D form.
-3/16" foam core model
part 3: create a refined basswood model expressing your ideas. this model was to be more of an evolution from our previous model and was to associate back to our composition. my wood model finally evolved to a status where the planes were curved and the webbing was thinner and more entwined with the entire structure.
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-1/16" basswood model
-1/16" basswood model
this overall assignment was a good experience. although it was extremely abstract and was not supposed to be thought of as a "building," i did enjoy what i got out of it. i improved in my ability to think abstractly and to really deduce what it is i am looking at and interpret it in my own way. i am going to keep improving my work ethic with my initial ideas in the sense of creating more study models and a lot more freehand sketches. hope you enjoyed this first project and look forward to the next one....which will hopefully involve the designing of a building.
Monday, October 5, 2009
start of a new year
so today was the first day of the 2009-2010 school year and all i can say is i am stoked! for some reason i just really want to go head first into this quarter and kill it. my studio is run by a man who i believe is going to push me further with my ideas than anyone has to this day...in any subject for that matter. i know it might get frustrating at times, but i want some good criticism throughout my design process and not just at the end of it. im really optimistic towards this year and i cant wait to get fully into studio work. my other classes should also be pretty good as i am taking an architecture history class which i find extremely exciting and inspirational. as soon as i get the program for our first project i will post it so you can be fully aware of what i am asked to do. also, i will share some of my ideas and sketches throughout the process to allow people to give me feedback.
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