The Wooden Horse - Ideas and concepts

Ideas:

- Simple
- Contemporary
- Bulky looking exterior
- Opened up areas (interior)
- Relationship between man and nature
- Sufficient solar access (quality of light)


Concepts:

- Roof garden
- Usage of an atrium
- Open floor plans
- Unfinished concrete wall panels
- Sufficient and clever placement of windows
- Galleria (product showcase)

Roof Garden



Atrium

Unfinished concrete walls

The Wooden Horse

Godfrey Heimrich, my client the warehouseman after picking up where his father left off is in a better condition than he was before. He was down, not confident, full of insecurities and was lost, without any hope left in him.

After some time being alone and doing some deep thinking of what he should do in his life in his "tower" a.k.a " his bedroom. He is now thinking of refurbishing and relocating his warehouse cum his home to the city facing Hejduk Square.

He still prefers to have his private/alone time in his bedroom hence i will design his "tower" somewhere isolated yet "open" to the environment.

Typology 4

Typology 3

Typology 2

Typollogy 1

Assignment 2 - Mystery Play!

"DIAGRAMMATIC POTENCY OF THE “NINE SQUARE GRID IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN"

- Any line drawn on a sheet of paper, or the simplest form modeled from a piece
of clay, is like a rock thrown into a pond. It upsets repose, it mobilizes space.
Seeing is the perception of action.

- Gilles Deleuze refers to the diagram as a “battle that occurs in the canvas between the painter and his data." Deleuze explains the diagram through the
paintings of Francis Bacon. For Deleuze, the canvas already bears the painting.

What is this act of painting? Bacon defines it as follows: making marks at
random (brushstrokes-lines); cleaning, sweeping, or wiping places or areas
(daubs-color); throwing paint at varied angles and speeds. Now this act (or acts)
presupposes that there are already figurative data on the canvas (and also within
the painters head) that are more or less virtual or more or less actual. These data
will be precisely demarcated, cleaned, swept, and wiped, or covered over, by the
act of painting. For example, we lengthen a mouth, we make it go from one side
of the head to the other; we clean part of a head with a brush, a scrubbing brush,
a sweeping brush, or a rag. This is what Bacon calls a Diagram...



* Alot of projects and exercises were generated through this nine grid system like
what we are to do now~ to design 4 houses based on this nine grid system~ *


http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/5info/topics/skcompe2008/index.html


The above website directs you to the design brief of our assignment~ It is also the brief to a competition which its deadline is dated on the 18th of November 2008!!

Grey Card Models~

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Sketchup Models~

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Concept~

AN ANNEX!!

- What is an annex exactly?
**to attach, append, or add, esp. to something larger or more important.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/annex)


I decided to attach my clients' dwelling onto his warehouse, as he is the warehouseman...

Who wouldn't want to work at the comfort of his own home? As my client now is down in the slums, broke and in serious debt. This dwelling might and i believe would maybe be able to change his current saddened emotions into something that would drive him to carry on his late father's legacy...

Initial Ideas...

Illuminated walls lighting up at night... Beautiful unfinished red-ish brick walls... Minimalism... Roof gardens... Sky lights... The beauty of light through unforeseen openings...

All these thoughts came running through my mind as I wanted to create a dwelling that would accommodate my client Godfrey Heimrich, the warehouseman.

Skylight...

Unfinished Brick Wall...

Minimal...

Illuminating Steps...

Quality of Light...

Illuminating Walls...

What an unfortunate man, Godfrey Heimrich the warehouseman

In a delusional state… Taking everything for granted… Losing all sign of faith and hope in his amber eyes… Just lying there, soulless and incomplete… Thinking of the what ifs’ and maybes”… Everything now seems so empty, so dark, and so surreal…

*At the scene of an accident* A young man crying his lungs out for help! “Somebody call an ambulance!!”

–An elderly man dies-

*Small house in Hermsdorf, Berlin* An elderly woman breaks down in tears, feeling tremendous heartache and unbearable sorrow. A young man weeps; in denial.

-An elderly woman faints-

*Pouring, gloomy Sunday morning in a court for a hearing* An old judge appears and states the misfortune of a young man… The young man whose father lost his life, his mother who’s lost her spirit and his father’s warehouse who is in debt. The judge states, “Godfrey Heimrich, you are to inherit the warehouse as you are the only offspring of the late Hartwig Heimrich, and therefore are liable for all the debts your late father owes… So I hereby announce you a warehouseman…”

-Seconds, Minutes, Hours, and Days Later-

*On a dusty timber floor in the attic of an old worn down warehouse* Godfrey Heimrich now a warehouseman… Just 20 of age… not knowing about the rejected detail warehouse, the debts that he now is in, the business that he is supposed to run… He does not know what to do… Lying there… All alone… Lying there in a delusional state… Taking everything for granted… Losing all sign of faith and hope in his amber eyes… Just lying there, soulless and incomplete… Thinking of the what ifs’ and maybes”… Everything now seems so empty, so dark, and so surreal…

-What an unfortunate man, Godfrey Heimrich the warehouseman-