Project 2 final Submission

Double House + Gallery

The program Double House + Gallery is located in 123 Victoria Street, Potts Point Sydney. The unique site provides a distinction transition between dense streetscape and panorama city view.

According to the program that is the combination of a public gallery and two private units, the basic strategy of this program is having the gallery space which is public access at ground level and front of the site, locating the private living spaces at upper level and back of the site which could not be directly accessed. The clients of this program are an art collector who holding a gallery and a painter who is the friend with the art collector, consequently, the connection between the gallery and art collector’s unit, the relationship between two units, and the relationship between both units and gardens have been carefully considered and planed.

  The concept of the double house is providing a simple living space while bring outside garden and contexts into the spaces which allow the maximum connection between inside and outside contexts to achieve pleasure within the living spaces.  There are two gardens within the site, a protected garden located in the gallery space that could be public accessed and an entire private garden offer for the clients at the back of the site that only can be accessed thought units.  The living and dinning space at both units are located at the city side of site with full height glazed panel which allow the open up view to the great city and harbour view as well get north sunlight, meanwhile the window at kitchen area that open to the protected garden giving a sense of peace and clam into inside space. Thus, both of units could own and enjoy two gardens at the same time.

Furthermore, the shared private garden at the back of the site plays an very important role in this program. The garden is half outdoor and half shaded, it could be accessed through a vertical staircase from both units. There are swimming pool and sitting area within the garden that offers a great and private space for the clients to meet and enjoy the open view of city contexts.

Photos of Models

1:100 SITE MODEL

1:50 Sectional Model 

1:100 Site Model 

1:100 Building Model

Portfolio

Project one- Bordeaux House Final Submission.

Maison a Bordeaux

Rem Koolhaas 

The Bordeaux house designed by Rem Koolhaas is located in the suburb of Bordeaux, France. The client of this house was suffered from a car accident and he has to rely on a wheelchair. As the requirements of the client that he does not want a straightforward house rather a complex house which the house is define his entire world. Thus, Koolhaas proposed a rather simple volume that was spatially complex and innovative in terms of the interior organization and conditions.

The house is like a staking of three house, which are a a basement floor curved in hill, a completely transparent open ground floor and a private house enclosed by massive concrete facade on the top floor. Blow the a set of drawing showing the plans and sections.

Abstraction Studies

Private & Public

One of the most distinction of the this house is the way that koolhaas separate the private and public. As can be seen from the drawing below, the guest room has been separate from the master living space by the central courtyard, therefore the master living space can be considered as the private space when compare which the guest room. At master living space, the space can be breakdown into there different type, semi private space: basement level which half curved in to hill and half enclosed by glass panel; public space which is on the ground level which is half outside and half enclosed by large glass panel; private space which is the top floor enclosed by massive concrete wall and protected openings. I chose a range of colour, form light to dark showing the different level of privacy. I separated the public space into two part: indoor public space which enclosed by glass panel and outdoor public space which in totally opened up, those two spaces are represented by two different level of colours.

 Circulation

The circulation of Bordeaux house can been separated into vertical circulation and horizontal circulation. There are 4 set of staircase of this house, but here I mainly focus on two of them which are the most represent parts, they are the platform elevator and the circular staircase.I used light to highlight those 2 circulation and.
For the horizontal circulation, I removed all the walls just leave the circulation spaces, then its clear see where could go within the spaces.
The space of this house are separated into two part by its horizontal circulation, which the two part of space ( one for parents and one for children) are connected by really narrow path in between. Each space has its own entrance and vertical staircase or elevator.

Structural Strategy 

The model I made is simply the scheme of the house and showing the structural component of bordeaux house. The structural strategy of this house is the key-point to achieve several elements, such as the appearance of floating. The Upper level massive volume is supported by several structural elements as can be seen from the model. I chose black colour represent as a heavy concrete volume and trying to show that the the house appear as floating due the highlighted s structural component. 

Bordeaux House drawings