Scale and Proportion
Site Model and Contextual House Analysis
Site Model
Integrating the design for the link and The House,
I composed this site model so I could analyse the
connections between the different buildings. As
seen below the residential buildings and people
are dwarfed by the roof structure of The House,
and the proportions of the house shapes also
need more consideration.
Archetypal House Geometry
To achieve a proportional roof that conformed to
the geometries of an archetypal house, I carried
out further research. As well as develop shapes
that were proportional, I needed to redevelop the
roof to make it more responsive to the scale of
the site. A key precedent, The Living Room
Pavilion, which is an outdoor office space in
London with ideas of domesticity and working
from home, allowed me to gauge approximate
proportions of a house geometry. The book A
House in the City, was also a very influential text,
which led me to revisit the site and carry out
further analysis. By photographing some houses
in close proximity to the site, I was then able to
analyse the geometric proportions of these
buildings, in relation to the golden rectangle ,
pitch of the roof and ratio of the roof height to the
rest of the building.
A House in the City.
By Robert Dalziel and Sheila Qureshicortale.
Chapter 1: The Idea of an Archetype.
It would be ignorant to ignore the past.
Established geometries used in house
design work for a reason, designers should
not be ignorant to this.
Home - A central place of return.
Chapter 4: Appearance and Threshold.
Creating functional design, whilst giving
credit to the visual aesthetic.
Good proportions following the golden
ratio, derivatives of Georgian architecture.
Fig 9 - Living Room Pavilion, YOU&ME Architecture (2019)
120˚ pitch roof
1:2 (roof : base)
100˚ pitch roof
1:4 (roof : base)
110˚ pitch roof
1:3 ratio (roof : base)
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