Sunday, May 8, 2011

circulation

This drawing shows exaggerated perspectives of some of the most important hallway areas in the house. It starts with looking into the house from the entrance, then walking along that and turning to the left is the next image, showing the hallway through the dining room, kitchen and maids room, then moving along the circulation line of the first image is the courtyard which is the last image, showing the courtyard in the middle of the house, looking out to the wall and stairs to the garden.
This drawing is a circulation diagram showing the lines of circulation that I see in the design of this house, exaggerating parts of the house that I see as circulation tools and shows parts of the house as being more welcoming than others in terms of circulation. An example of the changes that I made to the plan in this diagram for this is that I changed the two columns in the dining room to a wall because the columns stop you from walking in that area and create more of a hallway between the dining room, kitchen and maids room in the bottom section of the diagram.


This model was based on the drawing above, showing literally where circulation is easy and obvious and where in the house is less circulation-friendly due to things like columns and small walls. When I first looked at the plan of the house, I thought it looked disorganised and confusing, and it really reminded me of a maze, so I took this totally out of context and abstracted it to create an actual maze (using astroturf to represent hedges of a maze) showing the circulation of the house.

This model is a 3D diagram of the circulation of the house, with coloured edges. Green represents outside, light blue is low ceiling inside, and dark blue is high ceiling inside, but as my tutor said, it is hard to see the colours unless you look closely. I wanted a way to differentiate between these different areas, but really this model was more about the shape of the circulation rather than the ceiling heights.

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