Four Parts

This project began using the precedent of the House With One Wall by Christian Kerez. I first focused on reconstructing the floor plans and section paying special attention to it's volumetric forms. 

From this, I was assigned to split the model into seven pieces. To do this, I superimposed the three plans to create a system of layout lines that I then used to create the seven individual pieces with. We were then assigned a word, mine was "cornered," as a means to put four of these pieces together to create a form. I interpreted the word "cornered" as framing. I put the four pieces together by joining points of one piece to another, those to another point, and so on and so forth. This allowed the four pieces to frame a space in the center of the four pieces.  

Furthermore, we were to create 12 windows that consisted of six "designed" and six "incidental" windows no larger than 8'x8'. This was done by creating six windows in elevation thus creating six windows in the opposing elevation. Lastly, we were assigned to add 11 columns, 12 benches, a staircase, and a bathroom. These were all done in order to normalize the form in order to make it read more as a building. Firstly, I created the shapes of the columns by using a grid system made by the plans of the building and was able to therefore use them to frame spaces through phenomenal transparency. Secondly, I used the benches as places of leisure by putting them in places that framed specific views of the room that they were put in. Lastly, I used the staircases to frame external views of the building. They wrap around the windows to provide interior views and they rise into the middle space between the four pieces. This creates an experience where one would feel enclosed by heavy walls surrounding them but one would simultaneously feel the expansiveness of the space as it is outdoors.