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Architecture

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First Year, BA (Arch Studies)

2008/2009

Victor Leung


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Project 1 ... House Analysis12th January - 19th February

Project 2 ... Field Trip and Presentation23rd February - 12th March (Trip during 2nd March - 7th March)

Project 3 ... Design in Constraints13th March - 23rd April


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First project of this semester continues the architecturalanalysis of a constructed object: a Modern Private House. The

chosen building - Mller House was studied and analyzed inplan, section, elevation, photography, and as well as descrip-tive and critical text. Along with a precise analysis of the formof the building, the relationship between the formal structureof the house and the relationship to its site is presented.

The study includes the following issues:

CONTEXT

Background History, Site Relationship

PROGRAM

Formal Composition, Spatial Sequence

CONSTRUCTION

Structural System, Material Design, Construction Method

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Hous Aalysis

Mll HousAdolf LoosPau, Czch rpublic

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Dsciptiv foam modl.

This foam model omitted the facade of Villa Muller to show the interior oor slabs and partitions. It clearly shows the oor level and

spatial change, circulation and visual connection between rooms.

The obsession to Loos Raumplan starts from the observation of this model.


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Block modl

Spatial quality is complex due to Raumplan thinking. This block model rendered the void space into solid blocks in an accuratemanner. Windows are rendered as an extrusion of the room. The slightest difference in volume and height can be read from this

model. We can appreciate the change in spatial quality across rooms created by Loos in attempt to create a dramatic experience.


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Poch cocti to Hall

etac, Atoom, Cloakoom


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Widows a xtudd fom th blocks

Hall, Dii room ad Kitch

Main circulation - provide access from other rooms to the dinning room; meet the service core which is beside the kitchen.


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Faad modl

This model is the imagination of cutting away the middle of the house and exposes the faade with relation to the oor slabs and

walls. This model revealed the contrast between the simple external appearance and the complicated level changes. Inconsistent

oor slabs thicknesses are results from a set of rules which govern the space design. The language of extrusion and carve out canbe seen. Level changes of the oor constantly create a tension between the aligning and symmetrical windows.


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South-Wst Pic

Including the Entrance side, showing windows arranged symmetrically and the Boudoir side. According to Loos: the programmedoes not show hierarchy in bedroom level which results in little change of oor levels.


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Stais fom Hall to Boudoi


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noth east Pic

North Side is the Hall and the Master Bedroom, both have larger ceiling height. The dining room side showed the dining roomextruded through the wall to create extra volume. Level does not change between Dining Room and Kitchen, favoring the circula-

tion.


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Mast Badoom Balcoy

Hall with ad coctio towads a Tac


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Vtically xaatd modl

Floor slabs and their corresponding partitions are vertically exaggerated two times its height. Clearly showing level change in anexplicit manner. Multiple programmes of the house can be reviewed by different approach. Circulation are closely related to room

sequence and function; Room hierarchy are expressed in terms of oor height, volume, window size and the sequence along thecirculation; Double circulation for the servants and the served, meaningfully combined and interconnected across levels. Structuralcolumns arranged in a distorted square pattern hide within thick load bearing walls and the elevator shaft.


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etac ad Cloakoom


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Ciculatio block modl

This block model represents the double circulation in a continuous series of blocks. We can read the complexity of the path whichsolved the connection problem between the 13 different levels resulting from the idea of Raumplan. Servants core are repetitive and

modular yet matches all levels which needs a connection. Main circulation is elegant and dramatic but without sacricing practicalneeds. The two cores join in areas where a practical connection is necessary.


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The eld trip to Suzhou is focused on one of her renowned

Chinese classical garden - Lingering Garden. Gardens inSuzhou were built according to the style of Chinese Paintings.

Every view in the Lingering Garden can be seen as a pieceof Chinese Painting and the whole garden is a huge piece ofChinese Paintings. The architecture of the garden consists ofpavilions for various purposes, walkways, and outer and innerwalls. The walls have doorways and windows which framedthe small hills and lakes and other buildings and created layerswhich consistently change while experiencing the garden.

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Fild Tip ad

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Floo pla of Lii gad, Suzhou

Showing points on which a photo analysis is taken. Two person shooting at each other, trying to frame the partner in a complex layerwhile taking turns to change position.


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This project is to design a house on a site in Central HongKong based on the modernist precedent - Mller House -analyzed at the start of the term. The design of the house is

informed by the analysis performed on that precedent. Theinternal program, structural system, spatial order, materialselection, and all other aspects of the design of the housewas taken from the precedent study and adapted accordingto the site, surrounding environment, modern requirement,and practical needs.

The process of adaptation is to be understood as a processof design within constraints. The result is not a pure personalexpression, but a carefully calculated exploration of a modernistidea with consistent and logics and clear expressionsworked out within a set of new constraints.

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Block Modl dui th dsi pocss

The rst block model is attempting to explore the possibilities of the site, the wedged-shape site can form a very sharp edged

building, which creates a visual illusion of a volume-less at surface and pose a challenge to the geometry of a actual building . The

interlocking model is an attempt of diagramming a space that leads to a combination of two programme interlocking; such conceptderived from the Servant and Served programme in the Villa Muller.


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Cocptual Modls

These models deal with the organization of spaces, circulation and visual connection in different approach. Major attempt in thesemodels are to recreate a hierarchy of rooms through varying spatial quality.


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Simpl Pati Modls

These models arrived from sketches in different design stages, they contribute to the nal design in forms and in concepts. The

idea of level changes are exaggerated progressively in the process. The concept of transforming the load bearing wall to situate in

the middle arises, which makes the design more challenging and interesting.


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Dtaild Pati Modls

More Parti Models are create in order to rene the details and articulations. The model above with a diagonal articulation is being

critiqued as fake articulation and was marked as bad attempt. The model with long vertical windows leads to the idea of using

windows as an element which reviews the contradiction of levels in the nal design,


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Modl of Fial Dsi

The brief of the project is to design a urban house in the given sloping location, by transforming the Muller House into the site. Ipicked the distinctive load bearing wall and transformed its original behaviour, locating the wall in the middle of the house. The wall

now become an element that splits the thin site into two, working with explicit level change across the wall and oor mismatch, posea challenge but also tension between the two thinner spaces. The dominant West side ts the major programme and the circula-tion. The Living Room and Dining Room both extrude and push through the wall to the East side, constantly struggling to expressits signicance. The wall act as both a separation and a connection between the spaces, and maintaining the carving language

from the original house.


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Means of pushing and pulling the centre wall creates different space possibilities; a struggle between maintaining the integrity of thewall and creating connections for spaces can be seen. Openings on the wall are placed meaningful to one room but across oor

slabs on other side of the wall revealing the difference in levels.


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Axoomtic Dawi of th Fial Dsi

(0.56:1 from original drawing)


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Above: the fore-living room has a double height space which visually connects to the dining room above, the main living roomexpands across both side of the wall.

Below: Showing the Attic, Daughters Bedroom and the Library. The Daughters Bedroom has a horizontal window which opens to

her playroom.


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Spatial Modl of th Dsi

Rendered in diagrammatic blocks. This model visualizes the difference in spatial quality in different rooms.


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Living room area (viewed from behind). Dinning room area locates above (Not shown here).

Back: Basement levels for service and storage

Front: The entrance above at road level and the cloak room


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Bdoom Poch

Bedrooms and Attic. The porch (pulled out piece) in the middle of the bedrooms connects to: The Living rooms below; The GuestRoom, The Daughters Bedroom; The Master Bedroom; The Playroom, The Attic.


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Axoomtic Diaam of th Ciculatio

(0.59:1 from original drawing)

The circulation design sticks to the principle of being practical but dramatic as in Villa Muller. Entrance of the building locates at theS h id i h i d P h hi h l d Cl k Th i d P h li k d i h i

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