CABIN EXPLANIATION
The cabin takes inspiration from the sunrise beach house design by Wilson architects. the cabin is situated on top a hill with were the entry is cleverly concealed by the peak of the hill. The cabin takes full advantage of the beach style heritage with the use of large sliding doors on eastern facing facade to capture the prevailing sun and wind direction.
• entry is shelter from the outside but the walls also act to block the cold winter wind,
• entry into the cabin is through a calm sanctuary were the interior and exteriors meet, here a small water fall that introduces water into a stream that runs around the house to a storage tank down the back that pumps it back up to the top again. Provide constant tranquillity while wind is also cooled before it enter the house as it goes over the surface.
• The entry sanctuary is that of a cool running waster environment that cools the environment inside the courtyard.
• the work station is positioned in such a position that depending on his mood the architect is in, he has the opportunity to open the pivotal windows and take in the cool pond sanctuary on his left or turn right and take in the majestic warm nature of the cabin with its natural warm timber feeling while at the same time take in the expansive views.
• I Promoted the counter leave roof that covers the back deck , one it allows for better sun protection and provides a larger shadow area and the pitched counter leaver works to collect more of the sea breezes throughout the year.
• Large windows on the eastern side invite the morning sun in to warm the house and provide the natural light.
• in conjunction with the sliding doors I have also placed pivotal window on the opposite side to increase cross ventilation
• Pivotal windows also invite nature in as they face into the yard.
• ceiling is designed at 3.6 meter, this is because the cabin is only 75m2 and by doing this it still allows for the width and length still to feel human but the added height gives the feel of a more spacious feeling you would get from a bigger house, this added height also help reduce heat building and the larger area disperses heat quickly but during colder time with the top louvers and windows all closed it stays nice and warm.
• Introduction of the louvers above the large sliding doors allows for greater air flow but also allows heat to escape. These allow for small window to be open instead of the large doors in colder times.
• Orientation the cabin is orientated towards the east with the large deck and large windows all designed to capture as much breeze and light as possible.
• material; exteriors is a mix between white/gray concrete , this material allows for thermal protection from the environment. eves are finished with timber to show the link and difference between the rough exterior facade and the warm inviting interior facade
• Public and private areas are all divided by a stepping down or up into rooms in the design giving a subconscious though of what room or were in the house you are.
• The cabin is still very geometrical with simple shapes to provide the most visual delighting experience.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Site Location for Cabin ,
Don't know why this image isn't clear but it you just double click on it, it open it up so you can view it in a larger format.
Analysis of examplar house, site and context
Satellite and terrain photo from Google maps.
Terrain map showing the topography of the surrounding area in relation to the site shown by the little red thumbnail,
Site located on David low way, on the Sunshine Coast Queensland, the development is shielded by a nature section between the site and the road this reduces noise, improves privacy and creates an access that is only used for local traffic. .
Contour maps showing the natural fall of the land and the direction of slope in accordance with the orientation of the building.
Analysis of examplar house, original hand drawings.
Shows the decline involved in the entry which achieve the sheltered courtyard feel. Also highlights the decline into the house while revealing the gradual progression of stepping down through the residence.
Gives a better understanding of the earth works involved in the design, shows verticality of the design.
This level describes the living arrangements of bedding while it also highlight the play with stepping up and down into areas to give distinct borders between areas. The large windows from down stairs are replaced by vertical glass shutter to again increase views but also capture the breeze.
The lower level floor plan allow you to see the full dynamic interplay with the stepping down and stepping up into areas, giving distinct borders between areas. From this it shows the use of the large sliding doors and vertical louver windows provide cross ventilation, improves the framing of the external scena, allows for the boundaries between inside and out to be blurred while it also allows the coastal environment to be embraced within the house.
The exemplar technical drawings have been reproduced to the best of my ability from original drawings done by Wilson Architects.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Exemplar analysis on the Sunrise Beach House
Sunrise beach house:
The Sunrise Beach House designed by the Wilson Architects has been developed to integrate the Pavilion Beach-house and an urban courtyard style. This hybrid explores the interplay between internal and external beach landscapes. With this hybrid design it allows for the security and privacy of the urban court yard with the openness of the internal beach house.
Environmental filter;
• Dynamically uses walls, windows and openings to achieve a layer of privacy as there is no direct exit, this allows the house to have its own filter from external influences.
• Uses glass and timber fins on the upper level to draw in light, wind, and views but can also be used to block out the environment but keen the view.
• The u shape design on the outside acts as collector of prevailing breezes, light but also protects from the hot afternoon sun, and the undesirable weather direction.
• Large sliding glass doors, pivotal glass doors, glass windows allow for maximum cross ventilation and air flow. (due to the large amount of glass they have gone with a low E glazing
• House is able to capture the prevailing breezes but also able to close of the external environment for undesirable weather.
• use maximum natural lighting
• Orientated toward the east west axis allows major living areas to receive maximum light and ocean views and breezes but also protects from the afternoon sun.
Container human movement;
• Public and private with the stepping down in the design giving a subconscious though of what room or were in the house you are gives a new experience to the design.
• continuous suspension between movements and stillness
• Open free flowing form but still closed to the outside allowing for privacy and comfort.
• Entry has a very human scale then as you go into a more enclosed courtyard that acts as a barrier from external the release of space as you go through the door till eventually space is released and reveals the openness of the house. .
• Flow is designed to frame and reframe views within and without
• Space between public and private becomes blurred.
•
Delightful experience;
• contrast in the play of materials elegant V's Raw, refined V's natural
• dances with shadow and light
• beach house open plan with excellent cross ventilation and views but the protection of a urban courtyard plan.
• Materials, raw concrete, glass, zinc offset with the warmth of timber and woven cane (create an environment of contrasting elegance and rawness.
• Sequence of ocean vignettes are playfully screened and framed against the house and landscape
• cold feel, play with concrete and steel to the warmth of timber inside compared to out
• Materials = stone, water, timber and glass.,
• feeling of solidity with transparency, light and dark, cool, warm, hard and soft.
• "a series of concrete planes and glass ‘screens.’ The effect is one of a solidity bathed in effulgent light."
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 2nd March 2010.
The Sunrise Beach House designed by the Wilson Architects has been developed to integrate the Pavilion Beach-house and an urban courtyard style. This hybrid explores the interplay between internal and external beach landscapes. With this hybrid design it allows for the security and privacy of the urban court yard with the openness of the internal beach house.
Environmental filter;
• Dynamically uses walls, windows and openings to achieve a layer of privacy as there is no direct exit, this allows the house to have its own filter from external influences.
• Uses glass and timber fins on the upper level to draw in light, wind, and views but can also be used to block out the environment but keen the view.
• The u shape design on the outside acts as collector of prevailing breezes, light but also protects from the hot afternoon sun, and the undesirable weather direction.
• Large sliding glass doors, pivotal glass doors, glass windows allow for maximum cross ventilation and air flow. (due to the large amount of glass they have gone with a low E glazing
• House is able to capture the prevailing breezes but also able to close of the external environment for undesirable weather.
• use maximum natural lighting
• Orientated toward the east west axis allows major living areas to receive maximum light and ocean views and breezes but also protects from the afternoon sun.
Container human movement;
• Public and private with the stepping down in the design giving a subconscious though of what room or were in the house you are gives a new experience to the design.
• continuous suspension between movements and stillness
• Open free flowing form but still closed to the outside allowing for privacy and comfort.
• Entry has a very human scale then as you go into a more enclosed courtyard that acts as a barrier from external the release of space as you go through the door till eventually space is released and reveals the openness of the house. .
• Flow is designed to frame and reframe views within and without
• Space between public and private becomes blurred.
•
Delightful experience;
• contrast in the play of materials elegant V's Raw, refined V's natural
• dances with shadow and light
• beach house open plan with excellent cross ventilation and views but the protection of a urban courtyard plan.
• Materials, raw concrete, glass, zinc offset with the warmth of timber and woven cane (create an environment of contrasting elegance and rawness.
• Sequence of ocean vignettes are playfully screened and framed against the house and landscape
• cold feel, play with concrete and steel to the warmth of timber inside compared to out
• Materials = stone, water, timber and glass.,
• feeling of solidity with transparency, light and dark, cool, warm, hard and soft.
• "a series of concrete planes and glass ‘screens.’ The effect is one of a solidity bathed in effulgent light."
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 2nd March 2010.
Isaacson-Davis House, By John Wardle
The Isaacson/Davis Beach House located in Balnanning, Melbourne Victoria is an interesting concept as the house doesn't have any beach views with all views blocked by the surrounding topography. Visually I really like the play with nature materials he has used in this house and really find it very appealing but it reminds me more of a house in the mountains than a beach house. Here is a description of the house and the way in which it is approached and viewed.
Description
"The sequence of entry and threshold is also carefully considered. Like many Breuer houses, Wardle's design is hidden (or "unpacks") as a way to heighten discovery. Visitors are made to approach the house from the road, a distance that allows, indeed "forces them to consider the form they are about to enter" (Masello, p47). Visitors to the Balnarring house must then track along the long northern face of the building to enter into an outdoor room, carved out of the long box that is the house, which makes the (binuclear) plan that separates the living and sleeping zones.
The house also floats above the site. This gravity defying notion Breuer referred to as "atavistic instinct". Thereby the landscape remains relatively undisturbed and paving, garden walls and driveways are "free flowing forms that are foils to emphasise the otherwise linear empha-sis of the house" (Masello, p13). Like Breuer, Wardle incorporates these earth defying elements with earth bound or anchoring elements, so that the house cantilevers over the site. Being elevated the house needed to be light - a quality inherent in timber building.
The building is clearly Modern. Interior spaces are spanned with a structural efficiency that allows for a maximum interplay between inside and out. Dynamic interplay between solid and void is also explored, at times extending into the landscape (protruding southern niches). The open roof of the outdoor room fosters the sense of capturing additional space. Like Breuer, the house is contextual, where local materials and vernacular traditions are embraced."
Timber Building in Australia, 1997 Isaacson- Davis House ,http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/projects/aus/459/default.htm (accessed 2nd, March 2010)
Information accessed from;
Ferguson. S, Walker. P, Isaacson/Davis Beach House, Architectural Resource Package, http://www.timber.org.au/NTEP/Resources/17s.pdf (accessed 2nd, March 2010)
Timber Building in Australia, 1997 Isaacson- Davis House ,http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/projects/aus/459/default.htm (accessed 2nd, March 2010)
Description
"The sequence of entry and threshold is also carefully considered. Like many Breuer houses, Wardle's design is hidden (or "unpacks") as a way to heighten discovery. Visitors are made to approach the house from the road, a distance that allows, indeed "forces them to consider the form they are about to enter" (Masello, p47). Visitors to the Balnarring house must then track along the long northern face of the building to enter into an outdoor room, carved out of the long box that is the house, which makes the (binuclear) plan that separates the living and sleeping zones.
The house also floats above the site. This gravity defying notion Breuer referred to as "atavistic instinct". Thereby the landscape remains relatively undisturbed and paving, garden walls and driveways are "free flowing forms that are foils to emphasise the otherwise linear empha-sis of the house" (Masello, p13). Like Breuer, Wardle incorporates these earth defying elements with earth bound or anchoring elements, so that the house cantilevers over the site. Being elevated the house needed to be light - a quality inherent in timber building.
The building is clearly Modern. Interior spaces are spanned with a structural efficiency that allows for a maximum interplay between inside and out. Dynamic interplay between solid and void is also explored, at times extending into the landscape (protruding southern niches). The open roof of the outdoor room fosters the sense of capturing additional space. Like Breuer, the house is contextual, where local materials and vernacular traditions are embraced."
Timber Building in Australia, 1997 Isaacson- Davis House ,http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/projects/aus/459/default.htm (accessed 2nd, March 2010)
Information accessed from;
Ferguson. S, Walker. P, Isaacson/Davis Beach House, Architectural Resource Package, http://www.timber.org.au/NTEP/Resources/17s.pdf (accessed 2nd, March 2010)
Timber Building in Australia, 1997 Isaacson- Davis House ,http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/projects/aus/459/default.htm (accessed 2nd, March 2010)
Chicken Point Cabin. By Tom Kundig
The Chicken Point Cabin Located in Idaho, USA, was designed by Tom Kundig, an architect that draws inspiration from a mechanical perspective which can be seen in his design. His solution to the clients brief was very literal but ingenious in his execution. Here a short description written by the Olson Kundig Architects.
"The idea for the cabin is that of a lakeside shelter in the woods—a little box with a big window that opens to the surrounding landscape. The cabin’s big window-wall (30 feet by 20 feet) opens the entire living space to the forest and lake. Materials are low maintenance—concrete block, steel, concrete floors and plywood—in keeping with the notion of a cabin, and left unfinished to naturally age and acquire a patina that fits in with the natural setting. The cabin sleeps ten. (Interiors by Olson Kundig Architects.)"
Olson Kundig Architects, (2019 c) Chicken Point Cabin http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin, (Accessed 27th February 2010
Olson Kundig Architects, (2019 c) Chicken Point Cabin http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin, (Accessed 27th February 2010
Infromation collected from:
• Cheryl Weber "Custom / 3,500 square feet or less grand: Chicken Point Cabin, Northern Idaho: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen architects: Seattle". Residential Architect. FindArticles.com. 26 Feb, 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTE/is_4_9/ai_n14709447/
• Olson Kundig Architects, (2019 c) Chicken Point Cabin http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin, (Accessed 27th February 2010
"The idea for the cabin is that of a lakeside shelter in the woods—a little box with a big window that opens to the surrounding landscape. The cabin’s big window-wall (30 feet by 20 feet) opens the entire living space to the forest and lake. Materials are low maintenance—concrete block, steel, concrete floors and plywood—in keeping with the notion of a cabin, and left unfinished to naturally age and acquire a patina that fits in with the natural setting. The cabin sleeps ten. (Interiors by Olson Kundig Architects.)"
Olson Kundig Architects, (2019 c) Chicken Point Cabin http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin, (Accessed 27th February 2010
Olson Kundig Architects, (2019 c) Chicken Point Cabin http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin, (Accessed 27th February 2010
Infromation collected from:
• Cheryl Weber "Custom / 3,500 square feet or less grand: Chicken Point Cabin, Northern Idaho: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen architects: Seattle". Residential Architect. FindArticles.com. 26 Feb, 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTE/is_4_9/ai_n14709447/
• Olson Kundig Architects, (2019 c) Chicken Point Cabin http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin, (Accessed 27th February 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sunrise Beach House, By Wilson Architects.
The Sunrise Beach House located on Sunshine Coast Queensland. The house is a cross between the "Pavilion Beach-house and an Urban courtyard" style while it also incorporate a mixture of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to produce a development that exploits the play between internal and external, while the materials help reflect two separate natures one of rawness externally and the other of warmth internally. Here is a quick Description of the design intent, to allow you to better understand,
"Rather than prestige frontage and pergola clad rear, this house blurs its ‘entry’ and ‘exit’ into a series of walls, apertures and portals. Its edges and openings are every bit as important as the walls, roof and floor. Modern without overt or banal references, the design dances with shadow and light. Wilson displays a sculptor’s eye for material possibilities that brings into alignment elemental building materials of stone, water, timber and glass. It creates a compelling rhythm of opposites: solidity and transparency, light and dark, cool and warm, hard and soft."
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 2nd March 2010.
View from the court yard into the main lounge. Showing the large opening that increases the effect of the primary objective to explore a the interplay between internal and external beach landscape. all images found on, www.idea-awards.com.au/2008-round-4/sunrise-beach-house/
Internal view of the study and the use of the timber to give the room/house warmth and colour.
Informaion recieved from;
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 2nd March 2010.
Australian Institue of Landscape Architects, 2008, Sunrise Beach House http://www.aila.org.au/projects/qld/wilson-sunrise/default.htm, (assessed 2nd March 2010)
Australian design review, 2007 Sunrise Beach House, http://www.idea-awards.com.au/round-4/sunrise-beach-house/ (Assessed 2nd March 2010)
"Rather than prestige frontage and pergola clad rear, this house blurs its ‘entry’ and ‘exit’ into a series of walls, apertures and portals. Its edges and openings are every bit as important as the walls, roof and floor. Modern without overt or banal references, the design dances with shadow and light. Wilson displays a sculptor’s eye for material possibilities that brings into alignment elemental building materials of stone, water, timber and glass. It creates a compelling rhythm of opposites: solidity and transparency, light and dark, cool and warm, hard and soft."
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 2nd March 2010.
View from the court yard into the main lounge. Showing the large opening that increases the effect of the primary objective to explore a the interplay between internal and external beach landscape. all images found on, www.idea-awards.com.au/2008-round-4/sunrise-beach-house/
Internal view of the study and the use of the timber to give the room/house warmth and colour.
Lounge with the contrast in colour of the timber flooring compaired to the study, and the view that is framed and uninterrupted.
Informaion recieved from;
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 2nd March 2010.
Australian Institue of Landscape Architects, 2008, Sunrise Beach House http://www.aila.org.au/projects/qld/wilson-sunrise/default.htm, (assessed 2nd March 2010)
Australian design review, 2007 Sunrise Beach House, http://www.idea-awards.com.au/round-4/sunrise-beach-house/ (Assessed 2nd March 2010)
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