Thursday, August 28, 2008

MODULE
I am designing a house for Stephen Page. He has one son and a large extended family. Many friends and family also work with him in the Bungarra dance company. I imagined his house would be welcoming for all of these people due to his aboriginal heritage.
To still make the house a relaxing retreat I am investigating that it will consist of its own modules that will fit together in a array of ways and have the ability to be opened up or closed down depending on the individual in the space at the time.
Stephen Page is very committed to translating his aboriginal roots in a contemporary manner, i hope to achieve the same thing in his house design.

SPIRALING:
I like how this image shows an 'apron' like form over the main structure (the more square boxy shapes in the centre). It suggests areas that could be defined into public, private, home, thorough fares and entry points.
This 'apron' could be made of a range of panels that could vary in transparency and materiality.

I like how this form comes down into a ground plane.


PACKING:
by streching and 'packing' my original module this space was created. I zoomed right into the image and could see that this would make an interesting internal space. I like how light & shadow, Solid & void, mass & subtraction are interacting and created.

showing the scale of the image as an internal space


Adding matteriality, high gloss, matt and reflectivity give the space a more interesting finish.

A similar space with no materials
TILIING:
I imagen this is a wall or screen, an element that could add curvature to an other wise liner space. It is interesting that there is a richness created by using only 3 materials.


The revers side of the image
WEAVING:
This is how I started my weaving investigations. From this pattern I can see interesting junctions that remind me of modern Japanes joinery (imagening it made from timber).



by manipulating the very structured original weaving image i created this, i like the complexity of it but haven't quite worked out were or how it could in a building.

close up area

Experiments adding materials, it suggests transparency while keeping some solid areas.