Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Assignment I
Building:House N
Architects:Sou Fujimoto Architects
Location:Oita, Japan
Project Team: Yumiko Nogiri
Structural Consultant: Jun Sato Structural Engineers
Design Year: 2006-2007
Construction Year: 2007-2008
Site Area: 236,57 sqm
Constructed Area: 150,57 sqm
“… life in this house resembles to living among the clouds. A distinct boundary is nowhere to be found, except for a gradual change in the domain. One might say that an ideal architecture is an outdoor space that feels like the indoors and an indoor space that feels like the outdoors. In a nested structure, the inside is invariably the outside, and vice versa. My intention was to make an architecture that is not about space nor about form, but simply about expressing the riches of what are `between` houses and streets.” - Nico Saieh
Monica Cordera | Brick Weave House
The Brick Weave House sits on the footprint of a century-old stable on an eclectic block of Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. Removing the original front walls and roof created a garden through subtraction, one which is surrounded by a porous, one-wythe-thick brick screen that both reveals and encloses the private courtyard and house beyond. Variation in ceiling heights and floor levels weaves together the two-story garden at the front of the house with the single-story volume at the back through a cascading section. The screen animates the garden and interior with dappled sunlight, establishing a visual connection to and from the street. Rectangular voids in the screen throw hexagonal patterns of light inside. At night, the pattern reverses, and the screen becomes a lantern.
Lezly Camacho Assignment 1
Completed: Nov. 2008
30% of the original structure was incorporated in the new design by cutting and weaving damaged material.
The screen on one of the facade makes hexagonal patterns of light inside. The reverse screen at night becomes a latern.
The garden was created by removing the front walls and roof, creating different ceiling heights and floor levels the helps the structure weave as a whole and provide enough ligh for plants to grow all year round.
Gilberto Perez - The Stahl House (Case Study 22)
Architect: Pierre Koenig
Location: Hollywood, California
Date: 1960
Designed to be iconic of modern style Los Angles architecture and part of the Case Study House program. It is ultramodern and designed to be inexpensive as well reflecting the building boom after WWII and the return of the soldiers from the battlefields seeking normal, peaceful lives again.
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