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.