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Design Studio 1.1 Instructor: Lindsay Harkema Software: Rhinoceros, Illustrator, Photoshop, Vray.
For our first term final assignment, we were challenged to design a house that incorporates "green" in the architecture architecture and the social function of a garden.
The proposal is a concrete monolith that embodies living, working, community building, and ecological engagement. The circulation at the core merges with a hanging garden, creating a sense of connectedness. The first floor is designated for sleeping, the second floor for living, and the top floor for co-working space, welcoming the community. The house was built with concrete to consider future weathering and speculations of decadence, emphasizing its impermanence.
The hollowness at the center serves as the glue that binds all elements together, creating a space that fosters collaboration and interaction.
Image: concept development diagram
“The world began and ends with a garden: Eden and Paradise are gardens of inception and finality, but they are also the same place, lost and hidden now but to be regained, a spiritual journey that ends where it began, a kind of self prefiguring...
A series of cross-referring relations exists between the house and the garden. In the first instance, there is a continuum of perceptions regarding the link between nature and culture, from nature in the raw to nature as a made thing, an artifact
The garden, then, is a liminal space between the inside and the greater outside, the wilderness, and liminality admits dissolution, inversion, and Robert Herrick’s sweet disorder. Paradise is domesticated, but the do mestication is only ever partial; ... The essence of such gardeens ly uncontained. Robert Harbison (1997) plays on model as being both a paradigm and suggestive of something greater than itself, in which sense the garden is a very model of the cosmos. It is, to quote Foucault (1986, 26), “the smallest parcel of the world and then it is the totality of the world.” - Catherine Alexander
Image: prefabricated wall panels assamblage detail
Image: Fenestration details