Domus ideas

Here's a few ideas I've been tossing around for Domus. I've been experimenting with breezes over internal water features, sinking the building into the ground, roof gardens and various roof profiles.

Thanks Victoria, I think the whole design and scheme has potential beyond our own ideas, hopefully the use of such principles as mininal space will be a positive for its image!!!

T3

This would be our site, with fall and trees...a little bit more slope than I thought but I think its got a lot more potential along the lines of our ideas!!!

SUBTLE SUGGESTION OF MINIMA

Before I forget, what was really brillant about your minima design Stuey was not the cleverness of the stacking cube thingy but merely the suggestion of a minimal space - it was so succinct.

NOT LIKE A HOUSE

Hey guys check out notes on Copacobana 3 - reminding us that this is not to be 'house like'' traditional stuff. This is 'conceptual, out there, bending the rules stuff' . We all need to create a design (even if its mundane) and then push the boundaries. Pen is in hand!!!!!

TREEHOUSES

Interesting that no-one appears to be designing vertically. Didn't suit us because of shading problems but the idea of treehouses in both temperate and hot humid is interesting. One of my first thumnails was these little pods reaching up , both competing and harmonising at the same time with the trees.

BETTER FOR KAKADU STU - HAVE BEEN WORKING ON SIMILAR IDEA SO MAY AS WELL POST IT

The communal centre is an open verandah for relaxing, eating,working etc. shaded by a large roof. The perimeter of the verandah will be flyscreened and have some sort of stacking shutter system for battening down during the rainy season The cube/box sitting beneath the shade roof, but separate from it, is skewed to gain maximum nw/se breezes and screened all over with some sort of slatted shading/breeze catching device. See below. The individual sleeping pods are my 'brolgas' that will contain bed, bathroom facilities (not necessarily separate) and room for a desk.

First roof for communal area was rolled, perhaps this better as more compatible with brolga birdy pods - good for water collection, although on second thoughts gutter would have to be huge to cope with a big wet season downpour! Hmmn... have to have quite tilted with an overflow system thingy.
PS Its strange doing designs that may never be realised because its a team effort, but fun though. Next week its down to real work; sleeves rolled up time, drawing all those horrible sectiony thingos.

This is the core service unit that houses kitchen,toilet/basin and laundry . Kitchen,fridge and pantry this side. This core unit is 2ooo x 3800 on a 12000 x 5000 verandah.

Bathroom, laundry and extra storage this side.



Site plan - This long skinny site is going to prove difficult for siting our Domus bearing in mind thelong section has toface North and we have to maximise use of the local prevailing winds.


Made this for tutorial to try and explain my roof concept.