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.