Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Cutting it in Half

After Friday's class and being tasked with putting our houses "on a diet" I started exploring ways I could work with my house in half of it's width.
My house is more or less a square approx. 60 ft x 60 ft. I put it on a diet, turning my three ideas into a 30 ft x 60 ft house. I worked with different ways of circulation that would allow me to keep the 4 mains points of Le Corbusier's architecture concepts prominent in my house. I think my hardest part so far has been keeping and open floor plan, and trying to work with varying double height spaces.



Above is my three different variations. Personally, of the three I think the model on the right so far has turned out to be most successful. I have the circulation core in the middle that allows for me to be able to play around with the double height spaces on either side. It also allows for a nice flow of traffic around the center core.

Overall though, from the start of looking into the Slim (fast) house I think this has helped me, to better understand Villa Meyer still. More so now in what exactly Le Corbusier was trying to portray in Villa Meyer and what he did what he did. Though I'll never know exactly the right reasons as to why he made all of his decisions for Villa Meyer, like a pool on the roof. Trying to embody what he did in another project keeps me more conscious of the decisions I'm making, as I keep asking myself "Is this something Le Corbusier would do?" Though I don't need to make everything a way Le Corbusier would, I am trying to make my obstruction in a way that it can be recognized/related to the work of Le Corbusier.

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