Scale
A Building Inside a Building
A Room Inside a Building
A
B
C
A
B
The Garage (5m x 6m)
Toilets (5.2m x 3.2m)
D
E
F
C
D
E
F
Lift
Stairs
The Living Room (4m x 3m)
The Office (4m x 5m)
G
H
G
H
The Kitchen (4m x 3m)
The Bedroom (3m x 5m)
I
The Garden
I
Approximate dimensions for the rooms in the
house, informed by the Metric Handbook.
Scale
Although the sketch models had been made
within the working model which was at scale
1:100, the forms inside had not yet been
considered at a scale, just purely created to
develop composition. With reference to the
Metric Handbook, I began to research
approximate sizes for rooms within the house,
from which I made the blue foam volumes at
1:100. When arranging these within the 1:100
working model, it became clear that my building
was much larger than I had realised. Although
still larger than the approximated rooms, the flow
of the colour sketch model had potential to work.
I then placed the working model at 1:100 inside of
a larger working model at 1:50.
Expansion of the Brief
As outlined in the introduction, the new addition
to The House is The City Farm. As another
educational facility for young adults, this function
pairs well with the house. As shown in the
following diagrams, the glass tower has been
designed as a transitional space between the
three main elements, The House, The Garden
and The City Farm. The tower won't have vertical
circulation within it, but will be accessible from
both the ground and first floors, and connected to
an exterior staircase. The tower will have a steel
construction with toughened glass cladding,
symbolic of a traditional greenhouse. On both
floors it will have planters lining the walls so that
the volume appears full of greenery from the
inside and out. On the ground floor it will be
adjacent to the kitchen and serve as a
conservatory might in an actual house, with
various seating. On the first floor the
tower room will sit next to the open-plan
office and function as a private meeting
room.
A Building Inside a Building
By composing the space around the colour
model, within the larger scale model, I would
produce rooms that were at a more realistic
scale. However this meant that only the left side
of the building would be occupied and all the
necessary functions full-filled, leading me to a
natural expansion of the brief.
The House
The Garden
The City Farm
Glass Tower
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