Have posted some drawings of my original design. However I have decided to completely change track. Can't get excited about this one. Decided instead to jump out of 'create a nice little spot' mode and more into 'minimal' mode.Switched from reading books on small houses to reading books on transportable/minimal shelters.
Couple of good books for anyone interested:
'Move House' Sean topham (Melb Uni library
'Transportable Environments' Robert Kronenburg (ed)
(Deakin library).
I really enjoyed reading about spaces designed with homelessness, emergency shelter, modern transient lifestyle in mind.
For example, someone has designed a zip up suit for transient/displaced people. The suits have lots of pockets for food and water and medicine. Once a group of people get where they want to stay for the night, they climb out of their suits, zip them together and make a tent for the night (albeit a tent with hoods and pockets hanging off it). Next morning they dismantle the tent, climb back into their individual suits and get on with the day.
2 comments:
Can you talk me through the space. Is it basically two interecting internal walls to separtate functions, and exterior 'walls' which open to create outside spaces? Sorry to ask. It's probably evident in the sketches but it makes more sense to ask than to guess.
Those drawings and model are very preliminary. Yeah the two intersecting walls separate the functions and the circulation space is around the edges. The 'skin' of the building is canvas screens that can be added and removed according to varying conditions. I have been trying to figure out how to make it look like something more elegant than a box with white sheets hanging off the edge. I think I will use a series of triangular 'blinds' that make a geometric pattern and can be easily added and removed according to what the weather is like.
The spaces enclosed by the walls are very small but movements can spill into the circulation space.
Thanks for the comment.
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