Project1 - Bordeaux Maison: Interior and Exterior

For the part about interior and exterior, I tried to look at the impart of the interior and exterior to each other. Beginning with locating, on each floor, where the exchange, impact between in-out happen and the degree of these exchanges. Where there is no boundary or clear glass separating interior and exterior, the impact is strongest. Where there is translucent glass, the exchange still can be possible but where there is steel door of panel between, the exchange between inside and outside is severed.

By set out these agreements and mapped them on the plans of each floor, I got the result of the relationship inside and outside and how this relationship in relate to the used pattern. The second public level with its clear glass wrap and no boundaries in some parts seem to dissolve into the exterior. The outside flows in and the inside extended out infinitely.

The top private space with its enclosed box and tiny opening may seem to be the most restricted but when looking at the mapped plan based on the agreement, the outside has quite a lot of impact on it. Each small openings like camera lens that capture the unique view of the outside without compromise the private value. The inside is also influenced by outside through skyline roof over ratio, elevator, glass balcony. Unlike that of the middle level, the relationship here is one-sided: the outside seem to leak in but the inside seems quite closed off to the outside.

    

The bottom semi-public floor, as it turned out, is  the most restricted space in term of the relationship with outside. When related this back to the program, I noticed that the main activities of the occupants  happen in the upper two levels, these levels have more exchanges with the outside, though eventhe nature of these exchanges are different depending on the nature of the main activities happening on each floor. Activities on the bottom floor (cooking, watching tv, guest coming,...) are minor and often brief, so the relationship here is somehow only for circulation purposes.

To represent every point I took notice in this investigation, I took of a person standing inside the house and look around to the outside view. I arrange these view side by side from west-north-est-south and on top of each other from top to bottom floor. What I ended up with was kind of like a elevation from the inside with the distinct view of each floor: bottom - one and limit; middle - wide and continuous; top - unique and various.

Project 1 Bordeaux Maison part b: Private and Public

To investigate privacy and publicity of the house, I mapped the pattern uses of each type of occupants like kids, the wife, the man, guest with color then laid them on top of each other. I got the result of mapped area showing different degrees of color patches. The darker the patches, the more public those space are as it mean more occupants using those spaces. The interesting about it is, like the degrees of gradient, I got a range of different degrees of privacy and publicity in the house. I can see, even in the space considered as private space as the top floor, there are spaces within that are more public.
Having mapped the uses of each occupants, I got the percent of uses and sum them together and then compare to the total used space. What I noticed is there is some certain formula for public space and private space. Between the four types of occupant, in the top private level, the sum of used spaces is nearly the same as the total space but in the middle public floor the sum of used spaces is nearly four times more than the total space.

Project 1: Bordeaux Maison part a

For part a, I chose the part cut through the elevator and looking toward the bookshelves.

The reasons I chose this part for presenting the whole house is that it showcases some of the main aspects of the house. It shows the elevator-"the heart" of the house with its massive translucent bookshelves. This space through 3 levels is the main domain of the man in wheelchair, for whom the house is made for. This part shows part of the unconventional structure: the L-shape structure leaning on the I column on one end supports the heavy box on top. The part includes two separate circulations: the elevator for the man and the staircase for his wife. This present the circulation strategy of the house, in which every type of occupants has their own circulation path.