Project 1, Week Four: 21-3-2011

Presentation week.

Overlook at the project

 Plan of the house with geometric lines, representing how the geometry has formed the house in its basic shape.

 Public vs Private spaces. This presentation of this house

Project 1, Week Three: 14-3-2011

As a group we spend 4-5 days fully or partially to develop our model of siza's house.

Plus extensive hours on the model, I also finalised my drawings.

Project 1, Week Two: 7-3-2011

After reading few papers on siza's house, I started to understand the house in more depth; Realising the abundant Ideas which could have been possibility imbedded in one architecture. below are my notes in this regard;

antonio carlos siza house:

Bay window: figurative, centralised not abstract

both situations : the house faces street yet turns inward

Entrance: human and car at same level. process of entering (take a turn to enter)

form: no room is geometrically similar to another yet related to another

         multi purpose or can take multi personalities.

the twist of the column: clue to the hidden geometry of the house. 

interior courtyard: inside, outside space/alteration between the two.

openings: connects the spaces while it doesn't change the originality of the place(e.g., connects dinning room to courtyard without altering the inside/outside definition of the space)

diagonal cuts: the walls has been cut diagonally by the hidden geometry.

Project 1, Week One: 28-2-2011

Assignement one was introduced to us. We as a group decided on studying Antonio Carlos siza house by Alvaro Siza. During this week, I only looked at few architectural readings on this house and alvaro siza's architecture in general.

Architectural design studio 3, 2011

From this Post onward, I will be recording my progress in design studio 3 course which would include my thoughts, drawings and models.