cube house - Habitat 67 vs Kubuswoningen

Habitat 67 , is a model community and housing complex in Montreal, Canada, designed by architect Moshe Safdie. His concept from a book, Terre des hommes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, talked about how to integrate with habitat, he propose combine habitat and architecture that new form and different ideas at that time.

unitize house and compact floor plan

Kubuswoningen, are the different cube house Habitat 67 in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof".
The cubes contain three floors. The ground level is public space for living/dining/kitchen.The first level is private space for bedrooms/bathroom. The top floor is pyramid-shaped with windows can be used a lounge space, playroom, or bedroom.

Above architectures all base on cube design, but rotate some angle...It's totally different design. This give me a good thinking..design not only vertical and horizontal...


Source:
http://www.mmag.com.tw/ad/20130913-architectural_design-782
http://www.archdaily.com/404803/
http://www.explorra.com/attractions/kubuswoningen_9506#photo-0

http://architecturelinked.com/profiles/blogs/cubehouses

combinative function thinking

Interesting lamp ...

lighting designer - Masahiko Uchiyama combines different tools let it's funny and functional. Use combine different functions to solve problems or inspire new ideas. We can find many similar ideas in house.
For instance, staircase not only provide a bridge between two vertical distance, but also could be store space.

Open kitchen link dining room let chef can connect with other people.

Even combination of daylight(toplight) and artificial light (sidelight) to create a sense of dynamic..

(Asplund Goteborg Town Hall)

Those ideas let me think about how to create different use and face for different space.

Sources:
http://contemporarybedroomdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/under-stair-storage-ideas.html
http://www.homedesignfind.com/green/a-floor-to-ceiling-chest-of-drawers-becomes-stairs-to-reach-the-top/

Flatz House by Baumschlager Eberle

Different orientation provides different views.

Plans:

sources:

http://www.baumschlager-eberle.com/en/projects/chronological/details-of-project/project/wohnhaus-flatz.html

Villa Lucy by WPA inc

In Villa Lucy an attention to economy and organization was essential. The house is divided into two distinct zones, an opaque and a transparent zone.
The opaque zone is the service areas (i.e., the bathrooms, the kitchen, and all utilities).This organization saves both time and space and economical.
The stage zone houses the sleeping and living/dining quarters and stylish furnishes.

Plans:

The compact design saves resources and more economic and divided into different zones can separate different function more effective.

sources:

http://www.wpastudio.com/project.php?project=61

http://www.dwell.com/my-house/article/setting-stage

Villa E-1027 by Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray designed and constructed E.1027  in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, in southern France (near Monaco) from 1926 to 1929 with her lover at the time, Jean Badovici, and everything about it was premised on her love of the sea and sun, like its floor-to-ceiling windows and sunken solarium lined with iridescent tiles. The meaning of E-1027 : "E" was for "Eileen," the "10" and "2" represented Badovici's initials—according to their place in the alphabet—and the "7" was for "G".

Eileen was a furniture designer and E-1027 was her first foray into architecture
Now well-know as the L-shaped concrete house, flat-roofed with floor-to-ceiling windows,built on stilts, is filled with Gray's Transat chairs and pivoting and folding cabinets, and has wall murals painted by Le Corbusier.

plans:



Group tour of E.1027:

sources:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324354704578637901327433828
http://arch100-e1027.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Diagrams
http://kaufmann-mercantile.com/eileen-gray/
http://www.cntraveller.com/recommended/coast-countryside/cote-dazur-french-riviera-holidays/what-to-see-menton-cannes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT1HJMpkMFI



20.11.2013 Winchester project tutorial - function

I am very nervous of this tutorial because we should finish function analyse. I done some arrangements and different house shapes but I were kept on tenterhooks for losing something important.

During tutorial, I wrote some points need to improve.
1. Family members setting - one family, occupation, age, interest, habit
2. Well design house analyze
3. Prepare box model to play shape

Meanwhile, I realized why Joe always emphasis -- Design must depend on Function. No matter residential or commercial design, my job is according client's needs and characters to customise the appropriate house for them. This is function and design base. For example, Mother could need with an eye on baby, child could need playroom, freelance or Soho could need studio, elder or disabled person need consider accessibility...etc. Like Lego game, different functions make up different house shapes and reasonable. This is also she calls "Process". Ha~~ I like school~

if a tree inside your house

Can you image it, if a tree inside your house..what would you do??

1. Ignore it for conservation?

    <Utz-Sanby Architects,Contemporary Glass House in Sydney, Australia>

2. Find the strongest one for construction ?

<Henriette Moreau, Funky Tree House>

3. Accept it..maybe

<Undurraga Deves, Minimalist Design with Tree Inside The House>

<Jokeroo, Trees Inside a House>

4. Accept it..totally

 

<Fancy Interior with Tree Inside>

<Sensação de estar na copa das árvores>