Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Big Day!
Today was personally a really big day for me, Competition Submission day! All of my hard work through my last semester culminated today as I entered my project to the Sustainable Home Competition for Habitat for Humanity. Check er out!
My abstract:
My presentation boards:
My abstract:
FLEX House |
Sustainability is about changing trajectories and contesting the conventional way of living (Subasinghe, 2011). Compartmentalization of the conventional single family detached house is so overused in residential design today that society has become narrow minded about the amount of space they actually need to live. Contemporary lifestyles and seasonal remodeling are based on the principles of continuous discarding/storing of old furniture and buying new as replacements. The FLEX House provides a unique solution by addressing these two unsustainable practices and provides flexibility of spaces and an integration of furniture and spatial design. The basis of the design is using flexibility as a means of use and reuse of program from space to space. Within a 24-Hour period the FLEX House will be free of all “dead”, unsustainable space. The FLEX House has provided a minimal square footage home that doubles and triples its program and function through movable partitions. Occupants are able to pull beds, couches, tables, and benches out and slide them back so the spaces can double as bedrooms, living rooms, dining areas and recreational spaces. The FLEX House was designed with static areas including the bathrooms and kitchen, whereas all bedrooms, living and dining areas are flexible. The movable partitions enclose storage, murphy beds that fold down, and sofas and desks as a multi-functional unit. With this system and layout the home will accommodate families of varying sizes and allow these family sizes to change easily with no change necessary to the design. The exterior of the FLEX House has movable screens that mimic the partitions in the interior. These screens will help with reduced heating and cooling costs of the home throughout the year because of their ability to swing up and shade the southern façade of the home in the summer, then swing down and slide apart allowing sunlight to enter the home’s southern-facing windows. The home will be oriented to maximize the south-sun exposure, which will enhance our use of day-lighting through many windows that will also enrich air-flow in the home. This home also includes radiant-heat flooring, eco-friendly and rapidly renewable building materials and finishes, dual-flush toilets and low-flow shower heads. The FLEX House is replicable because it is able to be oriented on individual sites to gain as much day-lighting as possible. This home is a complete solution to a problem that, up to this point, has not been successfully addressed and resolved by other designs. The FLEX House challenges society to think about the necessary amount of square footage needed and presents them with a solution that delivers an innovative building solution. The FLEX House will help Habitat for Humanity to stay on the forefront of residential design and construction while promoting sustainable ways of living.
Sustainability is about changing trajectories and contesting the conventional way of living (Subasinghe, 2011). Compartmentalization of the conventional single family detached house is so overused in residential design today that society has become narrow minded about the amount of space they actually need to live. Contemporary lifestyles and seasonal remodeling are based on the principles of continuous discarding/storing of old furniture and buying new as replacements. The FLEX House provides a unique solution by addressing these two unsustainable practices and provides flexibility of spaces and an integration of furniture and spatial design. The basis of the design is using flexibility as a means of use and reuse of program from space to space. Within a 24-Hour period the FLEX House will be free of all “dead”, unsustainable space. The FLEX House has provided a minimal square footage home that doubles and triples its program and function through movable partitions. Occupants are able to pull beds, couches, tables, and benches out and slide them back so the spaces can double as bedrooms, living rooms, dining areas and recreational spaces. The FLEX House was designed with static areas including the bathrooms and kitchen, whereas all bedrooms, living and dining areas are flexible. The movable partitions enclose storage, murphy beds that fold down, and sofas and desks as a multi-functional unit. With this system and layout the home will accommodate families of varying sizes and allow these family sizes to change easily with no change necessary to the design. The exterior of the FLEX House has movable screens that mimic the partitions in the interior. These screens will help with reduced heating and cooling costs of the home throughout the year because of their ability to swing up and shade the southern façade of the home in the summer, then swing down and slide apart allowing sunlight to enter the home’s southern-facing windows. The home will be oriented to maximize the south-sun exposure, which will enhance our use of day-lighting through many windows that will also enrich air-flow in the home. This home also includes radiant-heat flooring, eco-friendly and rapidly renewable building materials and finishes, dual-flush toilets and low-flow shower heads. The FLEX House is replicable because it is able to be oriented on individual sites to gain as much day-lighting as possible. This home is a complete solution to a problem that, up to this point, has not been successfully addressed and resolved by other designs. The FLEX House challenges society to think about the necessary amount of square footage needed and presents them with a solution that delivers an innovative building solution. The FLEX House will help Habitat for Humanity to stay on the forefront of residential design and construction while promoting sustainable ways of living.
My presentation boards:
Friday, April 27, 2012
Kiss My Rear-endering
Well, another dazed late night/early morning day for me!
Today is my final review, of my final semester, of my final year in college. Wow. Today is just one of those days I look back in pride of all I have accomplished, all I have become, and what true, rare, and amazing experiences I have been fortunate enough to have while enrolled at Iowa State University.
Boom, now look at this.
Mad props go out to my partner Britt (and her man Chris), and my ol ball and chain Abby for making this rendering amazing.
Today is my final review, of my final semester, of my final year in college. Wow. Today is just one of those days I look back in pride of all I have accomplished, all I have become, and what true, rare, and amazing experiences I have been fortunate enough to have while enrolled at Iowa State University.
Boom, now look at this.
Mad props go out to my partner Britt (and her man Chris), and my ol ball and chain Abby for making this rendering amazing.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
YangYang
My good friend Darian (YangYang) Lu recently entertained the College of Design with her final project in the atrium. Her independent study this semester was researching the connection between food and architecture and she decided to design an environment in which a person can eat and react to food in a space, think about what it is they are eating deeply and being served by a (what I would call) a representative of this idea. Forms of nature and animals surrounded this experience and environment and the moment(s) within and throughout it. I thought it was a very interesting project and thought I would share it.
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Project Funny
Every now and then when I am thinking about my house project and its concept, my mind keeps running back to this clip from Step Brothers, hilarious -- so much room for activities!
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Previous Review
Well, I had a review last Wednesday, though it did not go so well. We did not present his project the way we should have. Too many 'I's' and not enough 'We's'. Also got the jury way off track with our ideas and they never seemed to recover to talk about the things I wanted them to. I am also not very happy with the way our graphic layout of our boards look at this point, We need to figure out how to propose our non-traditional idea in a more non-traditional way. It seems to run-of-the-mill in terms of graphics thus far...
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