My Sister's House Exterior2 10-10-07

My Sister's House Exterior 10-10-07

Group Intent

Our direction is to be innovative and to build off of each of our charrettes, as well as keeping in mind the intents of our individual architects and designers. Our intent is to create an innovative design, centralized around an open and simple floor plan, allowing for form to follow the function of the space, and reinterpreting moments with elimination of ornamentation.

Best of Intentions Just Won't Cut It-- Charrette

The collection of charrettes that we have done, so far for this project, have lead us in a particular direction. The photographed light charrette helped to really become familiar with the site. Yes, photographing an object on the site helped to measure the different forms of light during different times of the day but for me, it helped me to familiarize myself with the site and where the light hits from what direction on the site. This has led me in the direction of how and where to place windows with intention on the structure. When we built the 1/4” = 1’0” model, this helped us to keep our interior spaces open. We drew circular spaces on the plan to express the idea of openness in what is a smaller structure and to help identify the space relationships in comparison of one space to the other. When we created our moment, we came up with a curve that gave the person experiencing the space a way to know how to enter the building without confusion that we decided to repeat throughout the rest of the building. The materials collage really made us rethink how materials that we wouldn’t have chosen ourselves, how we would have to make them work together in innovative ways. Chrome and fake brick would not have been our first choices as materials for this project, but it forced us to leave our safety zones and take our project in an innovative direction. The idea of innovation and carrying and reinterpreting our intended curve throughout the structure were ideas that we got from our researched artists from the 1930s. Breuer was very inspirational in our design ideas and form following function was very important in the intent of our design.

Collage Charette