PRECEDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE
Precedents mean something done or said that may serve as an example orrule to authorize.One of our main purposes in this task is to study historic examples of spatial design with the intention of determining what can be applied appropriately to current design projects in contemporary circumstances.
TASK 1
- Analyse and understand 1 modernist architect and a house
- Fulfill the requirements using diagrams
- THE ARCHITECT
- DESIGN ELEMENTS
- CIRCULATION
- ZONING/SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
- MATERIALS
- Express and communicate the analysis on A1 board
- Creativity for the technique of diagramming
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| Title of the board |
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| Eames House Charles and Ray Eames Pacific Palisades neighborhood, Los Angeles, California, 1949 2550 square feet In this task , we choose Eames House as our case study house throughout the project . The house was originally built with a hybrid concept of living and working space.The house was designed to a married couple who work in design and graphic arts and who wanted a home and would serve as a background for " life in work ", with nature as a " shock absorber " .They emphasized on maintaining the meadow in which the house is built on. |
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| The Architect |
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| Design Concept |
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| Design Intention |
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| Design Consideration |
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| Materials |
This house served as both their home and studio , is made with a prefabricated steel frame with an array of glass windows. There is also a long concrete retaining wall set up against the high cliff that overlook the Pacific Ocean.
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| 2 Dimensional drawing showing the materials used for the whole building |
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| Grid Organization |
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| Ordering Principles : Symmetry and Hierarchy |
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| Formal Collision of Geometry: Rectangle Transformation of Form : Substraction |
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| Qualities of Architectural Space : Window |
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| Space Planning |
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| Space Planning |
There are two considerations which we think very special. The sliding partitions are installed at the bedrooms for maximum flexibility and there is some windows around the dark room only to enable filmaking can taken place.
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| Design Program for all the spaces |
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| Spatial Relationship : Spaces Linked by a Common Space |
The two buildings which is residence and studio are separated by a courtyard.
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| Linear Circulation |
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| Horizontal and Vertical Circulation |
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| Outdoor and Indoor Space |
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| Oblique Approach |
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| Presentation Board |
For the design of this presentation board , we extract the colour of the windows and panels from the Eames House and add together into this board as a sliding window .
We also extract the steel frame which is act as the main structure in the house and put into this board for support purpose.
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| Design of the Board |
