GAPS : Prejury

Hey, this week we had a prejury for the final project that we started working on. The project is about designing a habitation place for people to live in, working, sleeping and such, whatever you can imagine a human can do we can include it in our constructs.

We had started with drawing sections for our design. It was a hard start but as we produced more section drawings it became more and more easy to think in a section plan. While i was talking with other architecture students they told me why dont you draaw the plan first than you can take the section, but it’s not what’s assigned to you. As i worked in sections I understood why we were working in sections. This way we can create more relations withing living spaces.

So here are the some of the sections that I’ve decided to use in my last design strategy (I’ve worked in autocad and here is how it looked in autocad) :

Here is the actual drawings:

My design strategy was to keep more private parts on the upper parts of the construct and have the enterance open to common spaces. So when people first enter the construct they are in regenerative bundles space which i defined as where people can sociolise, chat, watch tv, play video games and spend time together. This spaces are where people that lives in the house come together. I thought that also this space would be very loud and crowded. Generally service kits are connected to the regenrative bundles.

Than more private parts are attached like the mini factories. It is, as i defined, a work place for the two artists that  lives in this building. There are 2 main mini factories for the artists to produce paintings. (one of them is connected to a small art gallery but i’ll come to that in a second) . As we get more far away from the regenerative bundles the noice that comes from there decreases. That’s also why i’ve placed the power sitations there. These places are for people to sleep in mainly; they can also do quite stuff like reading books listening music with headphones and relax.

The leisure zones are generally connected to the power stations (also the mini factories). Those places are for indivicual people. So everyone in the house gets different leisure zones. The spaces aren’t closed so they have openings to the outside which people can sit and enjoy the air/ outside. They are small and it is for people to relax, meditate, enjoy being alone. Those places are also located on the upper parts of the bulding and away from the road because of the noice and privacy factors.

I’ve mentioned an art gallery: It is a place that is open for public that goes underground and can be visited without distrubuting the household. Inside there’s an exhibition to display the paintings that were drawn by the local artists of the house. It also contains a service kit and a space (regenerative bundle) for people to chitchat.

Overall the jury came and while I was explaining the drawings and the strategy the teachers made some suggestions. They told me that the sections were too complex to be understood so they said they couldn’t really comment. They also mentioned which parts i could focus more on. And not all of the sections were successive so it was hard to understand them . I’ll be reproducing the drawings and i hope i can be more successful this time.

We were also assigned to produce a 1/50 model that contained 2 of the section drawings. Here it is: