Assignment 3 - 1:100 model

This image shows my 1:100 model within its site. I have made mistakes when calculating the heights of the surrounding buildings. As a result my building looks far smaller than it actually is. I need to be more careful when working out my initial parameters.

Assignment 3 - 1:100 model

These images show each of the separate levels within my 1:100 model.

The largest, on the bottom left is the base and lower levels of the model, it shows the storage, the WC the lowest level of the gallery as well as the artists sunken artists residence.

The image on the bottom right shows the separate studio pavilion which acts as a stage when the artists is creating his/her work.

The top left image shows the entry foyer, upper level of the gallery as well as the office space of the gallery owner and collector

The final image on the top right shows the gallery owners residence. There is a clear distinction between public and private within my scheme

Assignment 3: clients

CLIENTS:

The first person living within this building will be the gallery owner and art collector, he lives above the gallery. The second person living in this space will not just be one person. Depending on the gallery exhibition etc the gallery owner will commission an artist to come and live within the gallery premises and create works of art for him. This commission will last for a predetermined length of time, it could be 6 weeks, 6 months or a year.

DESIGN IDEA:

With my design I wanted to incorporate the process of making art as part of the gallery and exhibition. I did this by creating a freestanding glass pavilion within the gallery grounds. This pavilion acts as the chosen artists studio and it is there that works are created. The process of making art becomes just as important as the finished product.

Assignment 3:Sections at 1:100

Assignment 3: Site Plans at 1:100

1:500 characteristics of surrounding buildings as well as the broader urban context.

Assignment 3- 1:50 model

1:50 model of lower studio pavilion and artists residence

Final Submission: Drawing 4

The last drawing shows a Le Corbusier chair over-layed with a human figure. This relates to the way Le Corbusier designer for the person. What he created was not purely conceptual but designed to be used by people. All of this Submission looked at this idea beginning on a larger scale and sequentially getting to the human scale. I think Villa Savoye, although demonstrating and the mathematical and conceptual principles which Le Corbusier thought important, was designed specifically for the client. His methods and formulas used in the design were a means to an end but not the end in itself.

Final Submission Drawings 3

These drawings look at the elements used within the Villa which are included specifically to manipulate the experiences of the people living and moving inside. These include the types of floor finishes (the wood parquet flooring is used in the bedrooms and lounge room while tiles are used in the bathrooms and hallways), colour ( colour was used to manipulate a persons mood), railings, doors and windows.

Final Submission: Drawings 2

These drawings show the the Villa Savoye in comparison to a typical 1920's double brick home. I have analysed the volumes allotted to each type of room and colour coded them accordingly. What seems most evident is the greater amount of outdoor/public space which related back to Le Corbusier's implied ideal way of living.

Final Submission: Drawings 1

These images show the facade and floor plans for the Villa which are have regulating lines superimposed over the top. A quote by Le Corbusier's A new Architecture reads, "the choice of regulating line is one of the most decisive moments of inspiration it is symmetry of the vital moments of architecture". Despite this aspects of the villa cannot be explained using regulating line, specifically the ribbon window and roof garden, both included in his five points or architecture. I interpret this as displaying the mix of conceptual ideas as well as the practical needs within the building. The client has become the more important than the idea.

Final Submissions: Model 2

MODEL 2:

This model also relates to the form of the villa as well as the geometric ordering tools used withing the Villa. The model has been created to demonstrate how the form of the villa has been created by subtracting volumes from a pure geometric form, a rectangular prism.

Final Submissions: Model 1

MODEL 1:

This model represents the way in which the structural elements (columns) of the Villa Savoye have been manipulated in order to accommodate the residential needs of the client. The 16x16 grid, which is an ordering tool used within the Villa demonstrates how Corbusier compromised his ideas concerning order and geometry, which he claimed were so important in promoting an ideal way of living in order to accommodate the family. This demonstrates just how important the client is and how the Villa is not just about an ideal "machine for living" but also a home for people to live.

Coloured Savoye Image

CAD images of Savoye without colour

Assignment 2

This image is one of the images I am working on in order to analyse the allocation of space and volume of the Villa Savoye with that of a typical residential home of the 1920's, I am looking at this in order to look at the the way Le Corbusier has divided up this home and how this implies his ideas concerning of an ideal way of living. This is only the first floor and I think I'llll change the colours used.

Final Model

Final Drawings

Drawing 1:

This axonometric drawing is used to analyse the structure of the Villa Savoye. I have split each of the levels in order to show the important structural features, mainly the rectangular floor slabs and coloums arranged in a manipulated grid formation. I have also used pencil to shade the major parts of the house, the most important of which is the outdoor courtyard and loungeroom located on the 1st floor of the house. I did this to differentiate the public from the private spaces within the house.

-this drawing has a scale of 1:200

Drawing 2:

This drawing shows the ground floor plan and Section A of the Villa.

-all floor plans are scaled at 1:100

Drawing 3:

My third drawing shows the 1st floor level of the villa as well as an axonometric scaled at 1:150.

I chose this angle for the axonometric because it show the most important features of the house, those being the ramp and central courtyard/lounge area. I also included the beginnings of the driveways which lead to the house.

Drawing 4:

This drawing shows section b

e which cuts across the ramp while showing the stairs which go through the house. I chose this section because of its ability to show both methods of ascending through the house. The drawing also shows the 1st floor plan.

Drawing 5:

This drawing is also an axonometric of the villa which has been split into each of the three levels. I have used this diagram to analysis the circulation through the house. I have used circles an arrows to show the major cirulcation routes. I have also used this diagram to show how the non structural walls are used to divide up the rectangular spaces of each level. It shows the major parts of the villa. I have done this by drawing in the walls and using a thick dark lines on the tops of each wall.

Drawings

Half Finished Drawing:

Villa Savoye: Model in Progress

Ground Floor

First Floor and Roof

Section of model