Part B: Drawings of C HOUSE

Lower Level Plan and Garden Plan

Mid Level Plan

Upper Level Plan

Roof Plan

Site Plan

Elevation

Section

Part B: Further Research of C HOUSE - the Architects

pictures of Brian Donovan and Timothy Hill

http://www.infrdignlive.com/articles/small-projects-big-things

Donovan Hill is the Brisbane based practice directed by Brian Donovan and Timothy Hill, is one of Australia’s most highly recognised and awarded architectural practices. Established in 1992, Donovan Hill practice has successfully combined its commitment to design standards with delivery of services that have enabled cost effective construction. [1]

The practice acknowledges the changing expectations of building owners in the current climate of building usage and procurement. [1]

Donovan Hill have been able to deliver buildings that are responsive to these expectations as a result of the close relationships established with each of its clients. While relying on a degree of experience has been essential, it is the success of these relationships that has enabled the devising of individual and tactical solutions. [1]

This fluency with relationships extends also to include our built environment colleagues. As a ‘next’ generation practice, much of our work is associative. [1]



Reference

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

Part B: Requirement + Outputs

As last week has chosen three exemplar houses of the research, this week have to choose the key exemplar house for the project. My choice is the C House since i think this exemplar have been divided the private and public areas very successfully. Also C HOUSE is comprehensive design of the client.

 

Requirement:

To do further research, analyse and represent the chosen Architect and House over the following week, focusing on the following three interrelated and critical house design concepts;

• a house is an environmental filter;
• 
  
  a house is a container of human actives and
• 
  
  a house is a delightful experience

As a minimum, we need to represent the following drawings in our response for Project 1 Parts A +B :

1. every floor plan within the house
2. 1 x key plan/ site plan showing the house roof
3. 1 x exterior elevation
4. 1 x critical section
5. 1 x 3D exterior or interior volumetric representation

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

Part A: Research of the Exemplar 3 - Brookes Street House

By James Russell Architect (2006)

Location: 118 Brooks Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

interior of the house

http://www.jamesrussellarchitect.com.au

facade of the hosue

http://www.jamesrussellarchitect.com.au

As an Environmental Filter

Access to the house is via a staircase adjacent to the office. The entrance to the home is subtle: barely noticeable from busy Brooks Street. Once through the threshold, one enters a private and secure world. The stairs lead straight up into the heart of the home – a central, open courtyard of green grass bathed in sunlight. The house wraps around three sides of the grass, with the church wall and stained glass windows forming the fourth wall. [1]
 
As a Container of Human Activities

 Living spaces sit on either side of the courtyard – one a less formal “play room” and the other with the kitchen and “grown-up” lounge. Above the living areas are the sleeping areas – the children’s above the playroom, and the parents’ suspended over the kitchen and lounge. A narrow bridge connects the two bedroom wings and overlooks the grass. Bathrooms and the laundry are concealed in cupboards running along the side of the bridge. [1]

As a Delightful Experience

Walls of glass slide away completely at the edges of the living spaces, creating a fluid connection between the

grassed and roofed areas. Upper level windows are push-out timber flaps, which also act as eaves for sun and rain protection. Raw industrial materials of concrete and steel make up the shell of the building. These materials are enriched by the refined timber joinery of the interior. [1]



References:


[1] James Russell Architect. n.d. Brooks Street House. http://www.jamesrussellarchitect.com.au (accessed March 18, 2010).

Part A: Research of the Exemplar 2 - C House

By Donovan Hill Architects (1998)

Location : Coorparoo, Brisbane

Date of construction : 1991 - 1998

Category : Dwellings Houses

Structural Systems & Elements : Concrete Construction

                                                         Timber Construction

Building Materials : Concrete

                              Timber

                              Sandstone

                              Glass

                              Stone Cladding

Architectural Features : Three storey

                                    Outdoor Room

                                    Stone clad walls

                                    Timber soffits

                                    Timber battens

                                    Translucen flat sheet polycarbonate

                                    Benches (seats)

                                    Iwans [4]

                                                                                                                              Exterior of the hosue

http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm(accessed March 6, 2010)

Facade of the house

http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm(accessed March 6, 2010)

Interior of the house

http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm(accessed March 6, 2010)

Interior of the house

http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm(accessed March 6, 2010)

Interior of the house
http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm(accessed March 6, 2010)

Interior of the house

http://www.donovanhill.com.au/mainmenu.htm(accessed March 6, 2010)

After eight years of design and construction, Brisbane architects Donovan Hill have completed one of Australia’s largest and most conceptually complex houses. Created for a businessman, the ‘C House’ tightly occupies a steep, suburban site (accessed from a right-of-way) with distant views of the city. It has been constructed principally of fine-grade concrete and is intricately elaborated with cabinets, screens and finishes in fine timbers, metals, glass and ceramic tiles. The plan arranges rooms of various dimensions and volumes on four levels connected by 16 flights of steps. [1]

As an Environmental Filter

The site has been refashioned into a series of overlapping sub-sites (both indoor and outdoor), with their interconnections across the climbing topography resembling experiences typical of ‘terrain’. The landscape metaphor has been extended beyond physical representation to enable the everyday experience of occupation to be as if it were in a landscape. [1]

As a Container of Human Activities

A set of private rooms are gathered around, under and above the ‘public’ or ‘memorable’ space of the site – a large outdoor room. The house anticipates future generations by offering an adaptable planning scheme. The household might be a single family, shared singles/couples, extended family or home office. [2]

As a Delightful Experience

C House has been identified by architectural critics as one of the most significant house of the tweentieth century, Palladio, Le Corbusier, Wright, Scarpa and modern Japanese architecture have been citied as influences. [3]

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 A: Research of the Exemplar 1 - Bamboo Wall House

BY Kengo Kuma &Associates (2002)

Location: Shuiguan, Badaling, China

Design date: 2000-2002

Location:Beijing, China

Program: Villa

Total floor area: 528.25 sqm

Site area: 1931.57sqm

Structure: Reinforced concrete, 1 story, 1 basement [2]

Interior of the house

http://www.kkaa.co.jp/E/main.htm(accessed March 5, 2010)

 

Interior of the house

http://www.kkaa.co.jp/E/main.htm(accessed March 5, 2010)

Facade of the house

http://www.kkaa.co.jp/E/main.htm(accessed March 5, 2010)

The exterior view and the site of the house

http://www.kkaa.co.jp/E/main.htm(accessed March 5, 2010)

Kuma talking about the Great Bamboo Wall House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBoeWBdLOCA(accessed March 5, 2010)

The Great (Bamboo) Wall House where located at the outer Beijing, near the original Great Wall, is part of a groundbreaking development by Chinese tycoon Pan Shi Yi, who brought together 12 leading architects from across Asia. [1] The main facade was made by a straight, two story wall of vertical bamboo, that like the Great Wall itself, had conformed to the undulating ground at its base. [1]  The architects Kuma made the Great Bamboo Wall House becoming a sort of tongue in cheek critique of its ancestor by sliced it off in a perfectly straight, horizontal line at the top.[1]

As an environment filter

Main material of the House: Bamboo

The advantages of Bamboo as a housing material:

• allows the natural light, winds, sound and other elements of the outside natural world to filter into the interior. [3]
• the light, air and other elements generated inside to flow into the exterior [3]

As a container of human activities

Using the thickness of bamboo canes creating the wall of the house, making varied spacing to define a different level of fluidity from one space to the next, separates one zone from another while affording glimpses of space beyond. [1]

As a delightful experience

The location of the Great Bamboo Wall House is close to the Great Wall of China, and the material of the surroundings are bricks and stones, using bamboo can get the contrast of these material but also can fit into the environment. [3]

The two-story space room in Bamboo Wall House acted as an exterior room (enclosed by bamboo walls on three sides) let the space to be sensed from within the rest of the house, and people there can see through it to the landscape outside. The feeling of the room can affording solicitude and contemplation as well as lively stimulation. [1]

Reference:

[1] Kateigaho International Edition Japan's Arts and Cluture magazine. 2005. Kengo Kuma. http://int.kateigaho.com/mar04/architect-kuma.html (accessed 5 March,2010)

[2] Kengo Kuma & Associates. 2008. Great (Bamboo) Wall. http://www.kkaa.co.jp/E/main.htm (accessed 5 March, 2010).
 [3] Materialicious shelter, materials and objects. 2009. Kengo Kuma Designs The Great (Bamboo) Wall House in China. http://www.materialicious.com/2009/10/kengo-kuma-designs-the-great-bamboo-wall-house-in-china.html (accessed 5 March 2010),

Project 1 Synopsis

Aims + Objectives

This project aims to establish an understanding that architectural design is informed through the availability and analysis of exemplary knowledge. This is developed in Project 1 that research into exemplar houses will suggest qualities of design that can be set as guilding principles in the latter part of the design project. It will include the assessment items of observation and analysis exercises, contributing and leading to an integrated design of a Cabin for an architect.

Here an understanding of the importance of architectural precedent research is intended, with emphasise on house design as an environmental filter, a container of human activities and a delightful experience.

Project 1 Part A : Archetype Research

We are required to individually select three of the exemplar buildings for further study.

Aspects of your particular exemplar to be researched are:

• a house is an environmental filter
• a house is a container of human activities; and
• a house is a delightful experience

During the workshop,  we have define what we have already know of this project and discuss the meaning of that three aspects. Also the discussion of web 2.0.

The single most important thing that you already know about the Topic for Project 1

The meaning of a house is an environmental filter, a container of human activities and a delightful experience

Discussion of Web 2.0