Tuesday, March 13, 2012

PROJECT ONE-PRESENTION OUTLINE

Introduction
  • Group members: Ben Filler, Laura Cowie, Kangyi Tang, Jing Liu.
  • Villa Savoye: Designer, Construction time, Location.
Concept of the building
  • Less is more.
  • Architecture is a machine to live.
Materials
  • Basic: White concrete.
  • Inside: Black Aluminium handrails and window frame .
Structures
  • Pilotis(Bearing loads from levels above) .
  •  Column grid(go through the whole building to maintain walls and bearing loads).
  • Walls(load bearing).
Circulations
  • Show the image of circulation .
Internal spaces
  • Show the simlified image and demonstrate relationship of the spaces .
Additional drawings
  • Show the site plans to illustrate the relationship between the building and environment(semi-forest system).
  • Elevations(just for fun~~) .
Group model
  • Explain how we divide our model(cut by levels and slice from the middle).
  • Show photos of the model.

PROJECT ONE - GROUP MODEL

 GROUND FLOOR
 MIDDLE LEVEL
 WHAT YOU CAN SEE AFTER WE SLICE THE MODEL
 WHOLE MODEL VIEW FROM FRONT

VIEW FROM RIGHT SIDE
VIEW FROM BACK

Sunday, March 11, 2012

PROJECT ONE - ADDITIONAL DRAWINGS

PROJECT ONE - DRAWINGS





PROJECT ONE - INTRODUCTION

Villa Savoye is  an early and classic exemplar of the "International Style" designed by Le corbusier, which hovers above a grass plane on thin concrete pilotti, with strip windows, and a flat roof with a deck area, ramp, and a few contained touches of curvaceous walls.
 Unlike the confined urban locations of most of Le Corbusier's earlier houses, the openness of the Poissy site permitted a freestanding building and the full realization of his five-point program. The dominant element is the square single-storied box, a pure, sleek, geometric envelope lifted buoyantly above slender pilotis.
 Its taut skin slit for narrow ribbon windows that run unbroken from corner to corner.
 The ramp in the middle forms the basic circulation of the house.
 The spiral staircase saves internal spaces effectively and increases the modernization of this building at the same time.
The openness of the Poissy site permits a freestanding building.