Part C: Cabin Analysis

The Cabin

As an Environmental Filter

Sunlights and winds can come through the windows, makes the cabin have enough natural light and fine vetilation.

Most of the doors and windows can be adjusted to product from the heat of sun and having warm sunlight to come through.

Western side Wall having the less windows, and the north and east side having the most numbers of windows

Placing the west side of the cabin to the raod can aviod noise come into the house as the western site has less windows

As a  Container of Human Activities

Ground level is the public area and the upper level is the private area

Stairs divide the area

Since bedroom is place on the min level, can sepreate the working area and public more widely, making people when on the office, can become more concentrate.

Many types of windows having different functions, making the public and private area can be divided as what the household like.

As the private areas place at the higher space, people at the public area (lower space) hard to see the private area, but when people in private area (high space), it is easy to see what's going on at the ground level

 As a Delightful Experience

Concrete as the main matrial of cabin. using timber as a material of the bedroom, makes it feels more harmony and can gives a contract of to concrete.

A soft and hard feelings of concrete, while soft is inside; hard is outside

When come back to the cabin, the big enterence space can make people have a refreshing feeling, since people will take off shoes and other things there and then walk into the bathroom to washing hand, putting down all the outside things there.

When opened the doors and windows on east side, the cabin will become outdoor room

People in the carbin can see over the CBD views when being surban surroundings

 Although kitchen is not placing to the east side, people can still eating breakfast on the pavilino outside the cabin, having the morning sunlight and the CBD views

Similarity of C House and Cabin

•  have outdoor room
• using stairs to divide spaces
• similar rooms arrangement
• high roofing
• adjustable doors and windows
• using concrete and timber as the main material
• got a good views of it

Differences of C House and Cabin

• bathroom are not near the bedroom
• bedroom are not totally sepreate to the public area
• Have not following the landscape as the roof line

Part C: Cabin Design

Lower Level Floor Plan

Mid Level Floor Plan

Upper Level Floor Plan

Section A-A

Section B-B

South Side Elevation

East Side Elevation

Axonometric from North East side

Part C: Ideas of Cabin

As the restriction of the size (75m2 )of the cabin, I will create a high roofing for the cabin, making it have a larger feelings.

Diagram 1

Again with the restriction of the size, if i create a outdoor room like C HOUSE and make all the spaces place around it, space will become very small even if having a high roofing. Therefore, I will make the cabin itself becoming the outdoor room. Letting it have a outdoor room and have enough to live with.

Diagram 2

The Cabin as a outdoor room makes it become lots of windows around it, will have too much natural light and winds come through to the cabin. So, it have to make different kinds of windows and doors for it.

Diagram 3

Using wood shutter windows can solve the problems. It can reduce heat from the sun, and can adjust the angle of the wood to let the sunlight in or block it. On the other hand, limitation of winds also can come through it, make the cabin have a fine ventilation system.

Diagram 4

Frosted glasses is another good choice of window, it can bring the sunlight come through it slightly.

Diagram 5

Like shutter windows and adjust the angle of the windows, the different between them are type 1 let sun and winds come through as once

Diagram 6

Windows of the wood will twist if the winds come through it. It also can bring in little sunlight to the house. Since I do not want the west side sun light come into the house largely, and the ventilation better.

Diagram 7

Making the Cabin become a outdoor room, the idea is to have lots of windows and making a side of the wall have an adjustable doors/windows, that can be opening and closing.

Diagram8

Wall that can become see through or totally sepreate, let winds and light come through

Diafram9

Room arrangement.

Diagram 10

Material of cabin,concrete; Material of bedroom, timber

Diagram11

Landscape let to see view

diagram 12

Part C: Site Location of Cabin and Exempler Houses

The Cabi is to be located in an imaginary ideal architectural location and urban - Mount Methodology in Charette City, where an available small sire [500m2 max] is located within a group of existing exemplary houses.

the side location (aroundAxis Avenue)

landscape of the site with exemplars and cabin

Reasons of choosing this location:

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  Bamboo Wall House should place in a high level of vegetation area
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  Brooks Street House have two side facing the road
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  C House suit in suburban site (accessed from a right-of-way) with distant views of the city
• My cabin like C House, place at a terrace area facing to the CBD having the view

Understanding the Sun Path

It can help placing of the house in the site

http://www.works.qld.gov.au/downloads/tdd/ss_house/sp_bris.pdf

The above diagram showing Brisbane's sun path, as it is similar to the Charrette city.

It can been seen that most of the sun light is come from the north side.

Winter Path and Summer Path are different

Part C: Requirements + Outputs

After week 1 and 2, we have done a lot of research of the exemplar house. This week, we are required to design a Cabin for our Exemplar Architect.

The Cabin is to be located in an imaginary ideal architectural location on Mount Methodology near Charrette City, where an available small site is located within a group of existing exemplary houses. We are required to develop the site plan, where one of our first tasks will be to create our context for the Cabin design. The immediate neighbourhood to be made up of a collage of plans, elevations and sections from your original 3 selected Exemplar Houses. Our Cabin proposal will be the latest addition to this utopian architectural location. The Cabin itself is to incorporate all the necessary studio and workplaces for your Exemplar Architect, as well as living accommodation. As a minimum, we need to include the following spaces within your proposed Cabin design:

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   space for living;
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  space for working;
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  space for reflecting;
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  space for dining;
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  space for preparing meals;
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  space for sleeping; and
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  space for abluting.

Our proposed Cabin is to be designed to accommodate our Exemplar Architect and their partner only – no additional accommodation for other members of the family or friends is to be provided.

The size and arrangement of the spaces is to reflect the lessons that you have learnt through studying your Exemplar Architect and their House Design in weeks 1+2. The only limit that you are given is that you Cabin may not be more than 75m2 in total for internal enclosed space. Covered External Space, however, can be provided in addition to this. The proposed Cabin design must reflect the requirements of this brief, the unique utopian architectural location and the local environmental influences. As a minimum, you must represent the following drawings in your proposed Cabin design response for Project 1 Part C:

every floor plan within the house

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  1 x key plan/ site plan showing the house roof
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  1 x exterior elevation
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  1 x critical section
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  1 x 3D exterior or interior volumetric representation

And of coruse we have to published all ours things using web 2.0.

the site plan that we got

Part B: C HOUSE as a Delightful Experience

Materials

• Concrete - Timothy Hill (one of the architects) enjoys the sense of homogeneity and weight that it gives the building 'When working with concrete, you can fashion the landscape, the wall, the roof, the floor, the structure, the openings, the edge.... since it can be used both internally and externally, concrete can function as a means of connecting inside and outside [1]
• Timber is used to emphasis and contrast with concrete, the forms on the outside and internal linings within. [1]
• Exploits the rich textural possibilities of intricately worked timber set into a finely finished concrete frame. [2]

Expression

• Built for long term residence with future growth and change of a family. [1]
• Uses a landscape metaphor of a physical representation of a landscape. [3]
• Cross cultural references used as an exciting counterpoint to the conventions of European suburban typology and social structures, which opens up new avenues of developments for the future. [3]

Sensory Experiences

• Of the outdoor room, it can be a inside or outside of the surroundings
• Of the landscape it can see the city views

Reference:


[1]Architecture Media. 2010.The Domestic Ideal. Retrieved 2 March 2010 from http://www.archmedia.com.au/aa/aaissue.php?article=4&issueid=199905&typeon=2 (accessed March 7, 2010)


[2] Donovan Hill. n.d. C House. http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm (accessed March 9, 2010).


[3]Jackson, D and Johnson, C. 2000. Australian Architecture Now. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.


[4] Keniger. 2006. Timber-framed windows, C House, Coorparoo, Brisbane. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:11678 (accessed March 9, 2010).

Part B: C HOUSE as a Container of Human Activities

Circulation of C HOUSE

• There are 16 stairs in C House that divide different areas
• Stairs and hall way are leading people walk from public areas to private areas
• also can stop guest not to go into the private areas
• outdoor room as a central at C House
• Stairs, hall way, doors, windows help to divide public and private areas

Spatial Relationships

• Most of the bedrooms are near the bathrooms
• Public areas and Private areas are totally spreader
• Formal act as private area or public area

 Functionality

• Sliding doors make the space can become one open area or two totally spreader area
• The design of C House can give different type of  household, e.g. family with children, single family, business man, sharing house, couples, etc.

The Diagrams

Reference:

[1]Architecture Media. 2010.The Domestic Ideal. Retrieved 2 March 2010 from http://www.archmedia.com.au/aa/aaissue.php?article=4&issueid=199905&typeon=2 (accessed March 7, 2010)

[2] Donovan Hill. n.d. C House. http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm (accessed March 9, 2010).

[3]Jackson, D and Johnson, C. 2000. Australian Architecture Now. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.

[4] Keniger. 2006. Timber-framed windows, C House, Coorparoo, Brisbane. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:11678 (accessed March 9, 2010).

Part B: C HOUSE as an Environmental Filter

Siting and the Landscape

As C House is located beside a road, it may cause some noise in the house, however, there are lots of trees around C House, that can help to keep a quite space for it.

C House have a great balance of the landscape and create a similar roof line of the landscape

Arrangement of rooms (Sunlight)

North Side - Outdoor Room - allows most of the sunlight come into the house
East Side - Kitchen and Dinning Area - having sunlight at the morning
South Side - Formal Room
West Side - Bedrooms - when the sunlight from west side come into bedrooms, people will not at there most of the room.

Outdoor room (Ventilation)
Outdoor room that has a high roofing integrating the inside and outside of the house, also it can bright through most of the winds into the house, make a good ventilation systems to the house


Reference:


[1]Architecture Media. 2010.The Domestic Ideal. Retrieved 2 March 2010 from http://www.archmedia.com.au/aa/aaissue.php?article=4&issueid=199905&typeon=2 (accessed March 7, 2010)


[2] Donovan Hill. n.d. C House. http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm (accessed March 9, 2010).


[3]Jackson, D and Johnson, C. 2000. Australian Architecture Now. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.


[4] Keniger. 2006. Timber-framed windows, C House, Coorparoo, Brisbane. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:11678 (accessed March 9, 2010).