Assignment 2

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhn7ij3u66jw5m2/2%28Recovery%29.rar?m=

Assignment 2: The Brief

• Master bedroom (with walk in robe and ensuite)

Will include a balcony to utilise the view of the area.

Walk in robe - minimum 8 lineal meters of hanging.

Ensuite - bath and shower in one, toilet.

• Minimum two other One general bedrooms

One other bedroom as he seemed fairly close to his family members (uncle, brother, maybe father) as they were his mentors in his career/working life. The bedroom will be made useful if they visit Piranesi as they are all based out of Australia (not counting on them visiting very often, though)

• Bathroom associated with these two this bedrooms - 

Will include a bath and a separate shower. Located near the one bedroom.

• Study / library

Study/library - his knowledge of various styles, engineering, ancient societies etc, may be all in the form of his books which would require a library for storage. 

• Guest bedroom

Will be fairly small as it will not be used too often.

• Studio / workshop 

Studio for him to do all the types of work he does - printmaking, etchings. Will be quite large in area as most of his time would be spent in the studio. Will include a gallery space for him to put up his work for viewing.

Will be 'hub of the house'.

• Formal living room 

Will include a fireplace.

• Formal dining room

• Informal family area

Unnecessary as he did not have his own family.

• Kids play room

Unnecessary as he did not have any children.

• WC

Would be located near his studio for convenience. (Or kitchen/living room)

• Kitchen 

Double wall oven, 2 bowl sink, island bench top with free standing range hood, walk-in pantry if possible.

• Laundry 

Washing machine, dryer, ironing area.

• 2 car garage 

And room for storage - where he could store his works that he does not want to display in his gallery area.

Relationships:

• Bedrooms should be grouped together, the guest bedroom would be located near the public area.
• Studio ('hub of the house') would be located near the public areas - kitchen, living room.
• Walk in robe should be used as a buffer between the bedroom and ensuite. Can also be used as an entrance into bedroom suite, but then must have doors on robes to make it look better
• Garage to have internal access from house, from the studio in particular to allow for convenience and ease for Piranesi to transport his work from his studio to the storage space in the garage. Also from a more public space - kitchen or living room.

Design notes:

• Design and furnishing would be inspired by Ancient Etruscan, Greek, Roman, and Rococo style.
• Over the top design.
• Large windows for natural lighting
• High ceilings within the house - will have two stories to include the use of stairs as is reflected in his work - the Drawbridge.
• Stairs will have to be wide 
• Entrances - large archway entrances to different rooms - generally reflected in his work also.

Assignment 2: Site Analysis

Site analysis

Site area: 713sqm.

Existing sites according to site survey above: 

Lot 3 -Two storey rendered brick residence.

Lot 5 - Two storey rendered brick residence.

Land Zone

R2: Low density residential (LEP, p11-12)

      Objectives of zone

- to provide for the housing needs of the community whitin a low density residential environment

- to enable other land uses that provide facilities or services to meet the day to day needs of residents

- to retain the single dwelling of character of the environmentally sensitive residential areas of Mosman.

- To maintain the general dominance of landscape ove build form, particularly on harbour foreshores.

- To ensure that sites are of sufficient size to provide for buildings, vehicular and pedestrian access, landscaping and retention of natural topographical features.

-  To ensure that development is of a height and scale that complements the desire future character.

- To encourage residential development that has regard to local amenity and, in particular, public and private views.

Distances to transport and local services

Bus stop ~65m.

·   Balmoral beach ~100m.

·   Balmoral Beach Club ~150m.

·   Awaba Café ~250m.

·   The Bathers’ Pavilion ~300m.

·   Hunters Park ~500m.

·   Rocky Point ~550m.

	Meaning	Description	Numerical results	Reference
Maximum height		Maximum of two storeys. Council may allow an additional storey in attic roof space of existing and new buildings, or in the foundation space of existing buildings, provided that the building height and bulk is of an appropriate form and scale. Council may consider consistent pitched roof forms to extend beyond max building height.	Max height = 8.5m Max wall height = 7.2m.	Clause 4.2, Siting and Scale (RDCP)
Floor space ratio	The floor space ratio of buildings on a site is the ratio of the gross floor area of all buildings within the site to the site area.	Maximum floor space ratio if the site area is greater than 700 square metres—0.5:1 for 700 square metres and 0.4:1 for the remaining area.	Site area = 713sqm FSR = (700x0.5) + (13x0.4) = 355.2sqm.	Clause 4.4A,  Floor Space Ratio – Area 1 (LEP)
Setbacks to boundaries	Setbacks define the overall footprint of a building and the outer extremities of that building in relation to the front, side and rear boundaries. Appropriate street setbacks controls can contribute to the public domain by enhancing the streetscape character and continuity of street facades.		Minimum side boundary setback of: 900mm if single storey (<3.6m wall height) or 1.5m if two storey (up to 7.2m wall height)	Clause 4.2, Siting and Scaling (RDCP)
Fencing	Fences play a major role in deteminnig the appearance of developments and their contribution towards the streetscape.	Front fences, and side fences forward of the building line, must have max height of 1.2m above footpath level.	Max height of 1.2m, under special circumstances may exceed up to 1.8m.	Clause 5.2, Fences and Walls (RDCP)
Landscaping	Landscaping plays an important role in integrating new development into a streetscape, improving the level of amenity, improving local habitat for flora and fauna.	For site areas between 500-900sqm, the following formula must be applied (resulting in a percentage of site area). LA% = 30+[(SA-500)]/20 Where SA = site area = 713sqm.	LA = 30+[(713-500)/20] Minimum landscaped area as percentage of the site = LA = 40.65%	Clause 4.4 Landscaping (RDCP)

Notes:

View sharing (Clause 4.3, View Sharing (RDCP))

-           - Public views and vistas must be protected and maintained where possible – where available from the street, should be preserved by use of open style fencing and carports.

-          - New development should be designed to minimise view loss to adjoining and adjacent properties while still providing opportunities for views from the development itself.

-           - Trees with light open foliage and canopy are preferred (which do not obstruct views but do contribute to the wooded landscape of Mosman. Species such as Leyland Cypress (Leighton Green) and its cultivars should not be planted)

Week 7: Brief Exercise

RESEARCH:
Piranesi was born in Mogliano Veneto, near Treviso, then part of the Republic of Venice. His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin and the ancient civilization, and later he studied as an architect under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was Magistrato delle Acque, a Venetian engineer who specialized in excavation.

One of the greatest printmakers of the eighteenth century, Piranesi always considered himself an architect. The son of a stonemason and master builder, he received practical training in structural and hydraulic engineering from a maternal uncle who was employed by the Venetian waterworks, while his brother, a Carthusian monk, fired the aspiring architect with enthusiasm for the history and achievements of the ancient Romans. Piranesi also received a thorough background in perspective construction and stage design. Although he had limited success in attracting architectural commissions, this diverse training served him well in the profession that would establish his fame.

he apprenticed himself briefly to Giuseppe Vasi, the foremost producer of the etched views of Rome that supplied pilgrims, scholars, artists, and tourists with a lasting souvenir of their visit. Quickly mastering the medium of etching, Piranesi found in it an outlet for all his interests, from designing fantastic complexes of buildings that could exist only in dreams (37.45.3.41), to reconstructing in painstaking detail the aqueduct system of the ancient Romans.

The knowledge of ancient building methods demonstrated by Piranesi's archaeological prints allowed him to make a name for himself as an antiquarian.

working in the studio of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. From this period date Piranesi's etchings called grotesques: rococo shapes interlaced with fragments of ancient ruins.

In his preface to the Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini of 1769, which includes both of these etched plates along with designs in the Etruscan, Greek, Roman, and even Rococo styles, Piranesi argued for the complete freedom of the architect or designer to draw on models from every time and place as an inspiration for his own inventions.

BRIEF:

Inspired by Ancient Etruscan, Greek, Roman, and Rococo style.

- Bachelor pad 
Piranesi had no partner or kids, so he will most likely be living alone.

- Grand, spacious, with a high ceiling for the rooms and overall look
Most of his work represent large ruins/buildings.

-Include stairs and/or drawbridge to travel around the home
Reflected from his work, the Drawbridge - used as a way to get around the prison.

- Include a study room, and a library
His knowledge of various styles, engineering, ancient societies etc, may be all in the form of his books which would require a library for storage.
The study would be his own space to do all the types of work that he does - printmaking, etchings.

- Mural and furniture
Inspired, elaborate art on the walls around the home.
Same style/s for interior furnishing.

- Entrances
Large archways as entrances to different rooms/entrance to house

Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Lucchesi
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pira/hd_pira.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/giovanni-battista-piranesi

Submission

PDF, SketchUp file and animation in the zip folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yulho6c0wt847au/1390-3376470.zip

Week 5: Posterboards

Week 4: 2D Representation (Piranesi)

I think the most problems I had with interpreting this artwork back its 3D form was the amount of ambiguity that was shown throughout. The depth of everything in the work was something that took a lot of my time to try and make sense of, once I thought that say, a bridge was where it was, it would contradict a tower or stairs.

I drew up the north elevation, plan, and east elevation respectively. The most thought provoking part was what I determined as the extended staircase which can be seen in the plan view and the east elevation. Whilst drawing these two views, I figured in order for my thought to work, the staircase had to be extremely long. Although it may be unrealistic, I believe it coincides with my interpretation and logic of the various movements throughout the prison.

 

Sources:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqB2_tdxIvYZcA1sLoxFNSPY5dVf7pA9D0r8fyQqdVV9X9rKGBcKJTh_VKaBhLrLEpoZogM1DYvwjD2dOqJQBjHBapLWkBlB5FalQncl7nxB9jJ6yyHHH1kidEi4fLdzr8FY4oKZ1GBcA/s1600-h/Piranesi_Carceri_Plate_VII-2.jpg

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX6ZM1aX-9BvuoFN8uMu5xM6LdmZekUzZu58ZL6AFJR-7nDYyYz-KEByMa2ngGArNWEk87Crdu-0NcKzpAOIx1C8jSlhEqI1No7IKOmyFjC1kP7Lg_GszB56y9dcBtkpXErgrXGkgfjrc/s1600-h/Piranesi_Carceri_Plate_VII-1.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/05/02/cmPRISONS_MAIN_070502115704487_wideweb__300x400.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Piranesi9c.jpg

Week 3: Weekly Progress

I chose the composition with a pyramid, box and a cone. 

With that, I readjusted the scale and its dimensions to meet the requirements of the brief. 

Overall it is quite wide because I wanted to take advantage of the ~250m² floor plan

Spreadsheet of total volume:

This was more time consuming than I assumed, but in hindsight it didn't seem as hard as I thought it would be. So my process for this was to detach the primitives and draw over the intersections, then delete and manually draw the negative shapes back in. 

The easiest way that I found to figure out the volumes was to use a volume calculator plugin.

So my final volume is: 873.199m³

Week 2: Weekly Progress

Measurements of specified rooms:

Variations combinations of room arrangements (including garage for two cars)

Compositions of three primitives:

I approached this exercise by playing with the placement of the primitives with only one being parallel to the ground whilst the remaining two were rotated. My aim was to keep the primitives close in order to create a "continuous internal space", however I also needed it to be quite separated for the shapes to be obvious.

1. Pyramid, cone, box

2. Pyramind, cylinder, wedge.

Week 2: Paper Folding

Step 1:

My selected work was the Drawbridge. In the paper folding exercise I wanted to achieve the concepts of chaos - where I crumpled the paper, which may be hard to see - and also a sense of feeling trapped and finding a route to escape, in which I attempted to create pathways in the form of a maze/labyrinth. I chose to do it more flat, to maximise the use of the area of the paper leading into another concept of large space.

Step 2:

Piranesi's capriccio work comprises of several ruins, I picked three of his works of ruined columns and used common themes to do the paper exercise. The result is straight forward, I used the concept of fragility and its 'oldness', hence the crumple of the paper to represent this. As we were not allowed to completely rip the paper, I ripped a few sections to show its damage as well. The overall shape is a cylindrical - corresponding to a column.

Sources:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-262449

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-261496

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-262334

Step 3:

The last exercise allowed us to use multiple pieces of paper, I ended only used two pieces of paper to mimic the selected work from Piranesi's series - Vedute di Roma. 

Source:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-261447

Week 1: Design Influence

Piranesi: VII - The Drawbridge

source

"They are both fascinating and menacing, perfectly ordered yet confusing and chaotic, realistic and dreamlike.  They drew on his imagination, his theatrical set experience and his knowledge of architecture...Look closely at each print, each can make the viewer feel lost or trapped, trying to figure the way out.  But for the titles there is little to identify most scenes as prisons, if they were referred to in another sense (the theater, the castle, etc.) perhaps they wouldn't be so intimidating." source

Through research, I found Piranesi's work the most intriguing as he takes on the style of 'capriccio', which I have never seen before. The Drawbridge was particularly interesting because it emits a vibe of a fantastical and majestic place. At first glance I saw a chaotic scene, which made me analyse the work, appreciating the intricacy and allowing me to use my imagination to try to figure out where the stairs and bridges lead to, if anywhere at all.

The architecture in the work appears spacious and large, in which the only way to get to one side to another is through a drawbridge or stairs. I am not sure as to whether the scene is located inside or outside, letting me be open minded to either option.

Week 1: Comparative Sketching

In class, we were required to transfer information from text to a 3D drawn model. The task was much more difficult than I hoped for, and was a good lesson to show how representation can be ambiguous and hard to interpret. I did not end up getting too far into my drawings because I got confused often, noticing various contradictions between my drawings and the given text.

Scans will be up soon.