Submission

What I tried to reveal through the representational mediums of parti+poche and the manipulation of visual techniques, was my understanding of the house's essential design concept. I felt that the house was organised in a very open and generous way, promoting flexible use of space and permeability- which makes it so unique in its context of colonial style courtyard dwellings. This is what gives it such a complex dual personality, because within the confining and prison like boundary wall which cuts off the house from the outside, the house is arranged to maximise openness using the design cues of modern tropical architecture. Contextually the sense in which it created a design hybrid is evident as its organisation was adopted for other houses.

In my parti diagrams I explored the concept of the house's loose delineation between different spaces and circulation paths. Loose, in the sense that you could easily re imagine alternate spacial arrangements with in the flexible plan. I also used the diagrams to highlight notions of public/private and served/serving spaces which are central to the context in which the house was produced and understanding its spacial relationships between rooms, courtyards and pavilions. I revealed the clear sense in which the arrangement of spaces compels you to direct your views across the floors from pavilion to pavilion with the many windows and openings facilitating the piercing views. I tried to make these essential concepts legible by adopting a hierarchy of line weights and shading depth, to define primary and secondary elements. 

In my poche drawings, I used computer techniques to highlight important spaces and the unique vernacular of its materiality. Through a process of sequential reduction I decreased the saturation and lightness of colors, to establish a simplified, coherent and more graphically mature representation of these ideas.

For the model refer to previous 2 blogs. Upon reflection and after seeing the work of other students, I found this first task to be a great exercise in developing conceptual and graphic sensibility, and trying to pear back designs to their core principles and fundamental elements, which then explain the simplicity in which the rest of the building is executed.