PROJECT THREE - DOUBLE HOUSE + GARDEN

The brief for this design studio was to design two houses and a garden on Victoria St, Potts Point. The site is west facing with panoramic views of the city and is very steeply sloped as it sits on the top of the sandstone ridge that runs along Potts Point toward the harbour. Another requirement of this studio was that the design had to take into consideration the precedent studies TO SEE and PROGRAM+ on the Villa Muller by Loos.

The brief asks us to design for an art collector and one other person. My narrative for the brief is that the collector lives in the top house full time with his partner. The lower house is the smaller of the two and is for a resident sculptor. Both houses are surrounded by a sculpture garden that can be accessed by the public.

The collector requires a five metre high space for exhibiting his collection of sculptures and other installations as well as a smaller space for exhibiting photographs. He also requires a small office and storage for his collection as well as the usual living arrangements. The resident sculptor's house includes a studio space where he creates works for the collector  and for display in the garden.


PARTI SKETCHES

DESIGN SKETCHES

SKETCH MODELS

1:100 MODEL

DRAWINGS

Full size PDFs of the drawings are available here:

PLANS_final.pdf

SECTIONS_final.pdf

PROJECT TWO: PROGRAM+

A graphic analysis of the Villa Muller - the relationship of program to circulation, psychological relationships between different zones of the house and materiality.

Villa Muller analysis line drawings

Villa Muller analysis - circulation, psychological relationships and materiality

Full size PDFs can be downloaded here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/analysis_A0_line_drawings.pdf

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/analysis_A0_final.pdf

DRAWINGS

MODEL

ARCH1201 DESIGN STUDIO THREE - PROJECT ONE: TO SEE

Project one requires accurate drawings and a physical section model of Adolf Loos' Villa Muller to be produced to help see, show and understand the architectural concepts of this building.

Villa Muller, Adolf Loos (1928-30) - East Facade

Image credit: Bock, Ralf. Adolf Loos : works and projects. Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2007.

FILES

Sketchup file links:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/gilling_EXP3_GAGA_final.skp (3.7Mb)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/gilling_EXP3_IVE_FINAL.skp (10 Mb)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/gilling_EXP3_table_FINAL.skp  (47 Kb)


Crysis 'object' and 'levels' folders in .rar format linked below:

levels folder: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/z2269615_exp3_v2.rar (15.6 Mb)

objects folder: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/z2269615_Objects.rar (5.8 Mb)

GAGA

Imposing height, geometry and pointed shape in plan

Stopping the elevator track short creates tension between Gaga and the island

the Gaga auditorium - her 'office'

View down the bridge from the elevator showing suspension system