1.50 Sectional Model

Emma Farmer: 1.50 Sectional Model for Final Hand-in, June 2013

Design Report

RECONSTRUCTING SUBURBIA

With land prices and population increasing, there is a need for a new ideal home and land. Central Ponsonby is quickly becoming a popular development due to its close proximity to the city, a growing ideal for many New Zealanders; yet still maintaining suburban qualities, an old yet strong ideal for the New Zealand home. 

This design deals with high-density living and the desire for visual privacy on a multi-family site. By designing 4 units with an internal focus, each family can maintain privacy, an ideal that has grown over the last 50 years. This is achieved through controlling window openings and the use of central light-wells that enable views across the house, giving the illusion of larger rooms by visually borrow the adjacent space. Each unit is self-contained with communal spaces explored in the entrance hallway, guest toilets, shared laundry and parking spaces. The hallway acts as a threshold between the street and the private units, a transitional space that encourages interaction within the multiple families helping to create a community within the site.

Outdoor living areas are an important part of the New Zealand home and have been specifically designed to give each of the four families a private outdoor space with consideration to each families current phase of life. The design blurs the threshold between inside and outside through the use of the central open-air light-wells and direct outdoor living spaces.

Emma Farmer: Final Exhibition, June 2013.

This idea of a blurred threshold is further explored through the group installation designed to represent an ideal for the group of 5 friends. The installation consists of three deconstructed doorframes placed in a triangular configuration to represent three families (2 couples and a single friend) living together. It uses one point perspective to show each doorframe as a whole with the central space depicting the communication between the three (also portrayed with the poems etched down the side of the frames). Inside and outside sounds are incorporated within the frames to further blur the threshold and cause you to question what is inside and what is outside. All three doorframes have the same central white framing to signify their unity, but are clad with three different mouldings to represent their independence. This idea of repeating something in a slightly different way is also demonstrated in the individual design through the continuous roof that connects the four family units as one house yet varies in height and pitch to give individuality to each home. The building uses familiar building materials, a weatherboard cladding and corrugated roof, to evoke a traditional feel to the site in conjunction with new building technologies and systems to create a uniquely new New Zealand home.

FINAL DRAWINGS

Emma Farmer: Final Level 2 Plan, June 2013.

Emma Farmer: Final Level 1 Plan, June 2013.

Emma Farmer: Final 1.50 Long Section, June 2013.

Emma Farmer: 1.20 Sectional Detail, June 2013

Workshop

Emma Farmer: Four ideas for fences with a play & amenity aspect, June 2013

Emma Farmer: Grace, Kelly & Shieun - Climbing Rope & Vegetable Garden, June 2013

Emma Farmer: Nasim, Hannah & Emma - Naughts and Crosses & Bee Hive, June 2013

Emma Farmer: Woomin, Desmond & Friends - Monkey Bars & Fruit Trees, June 2013

Emma Farmer: Tim, Villa & Kate - Trampoline & Meeting room, June 2013

The Workshop got us to explore what a fence could be used for, viewing it as something more than just a boundary line definer. It caused us to question what else the space could be used for if it is shared. Above are four ideas shown in a plan view for a fence that is made up of a play item and and amenity that allows neighbors to interact with each other.

Diagram showing Sun angles and Natural Ventilation

Emma Farmer: Cross Section 1 showing sun angles and ventilation, May 2013.

Emma Farmer: Cross Section 2 showing sun angles and ventilation, May 2013.

Details of Group Installation

Emma Farmer: View of centre table with 'take-home' note and plums, May 2013.

Emma Farmer: Detailing of bolts, May 2013.

Emma Farmer: Detailing of milling down the side, May 2013.

Emma Farmer: Detailing of speaker cap, May 2013.

Emma Farmer: Installation in use, May 2013.

Emma Farmer: Side view of frames, May 2013.

Short Section

Emma Farmer: Short 1:50 Section showing sliding glass roof, May 2013.

Exhibition in the Auckland Art Gallery

Emma Farmer: Individual Ideal Home(land) Design Exhibition inside the Auckland Art Gallery, May 2013.

 

Emma Farmer: Installation Exhibition inside the Auckland Art Gallery, May 2013.

Emma Farmer: Panorama of Ideal Home(land) Exhibition inside the Auckland Art Gallery, May 2013.

Exhibition Paper Model

Emma Farmer: Exhibition Paper Model Front Street View, May 2013

Emma Farmer: Exhibition Paper Model North Elevation View, May 2013

Emma Farmer: Exhibition Paper Model Back View, May 2013

1:50 Detailed Long Section

Emma Farmer: 1:50 Detailed Long Section, May 2013, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop

Installation Construction

Kelly Chapman: Emma Sanding, May 2013

Kelly Chapman: Emma & Aditi Drilling, May 2013

Kelly Chapman: Aditi Paintng, May 2013

Emma Farmer: Kelly Constructing, May 2013

Kelly Chapman: Poem engraved on the side of the frames, May 2013

Kelly Chapman: Completed Frames, May 2013

Client Information & Construction Drawings

CLIENT INFORMATION:

 
Girlfriend 1: Sharon MacKinnon      Boyfriend 1: Geoff Wright
Age: 29                                           Age: 32
Nationality: New Zealander               Nationality: South African
Occupation: Nurse                          Occupation: Teacher
Interests: Cooking                           Interests: Music



Single Friend: Tim Fuller
Age: 28
Nationality: New Zealander
Occupation: Builder
Interests: Sustainability


 
Girlfriend 2: Lana Crosley                Boyfriend 2: Matthew Blanch
Age: 28                                           Age: 30
Nationality: English                          Nationality: New Zealander
Occupation: Accountant                   Occupation: Lawyer
Interests: Tennis                              Interests: Sailing & Diving

Emma Farmer: Plan Layout, April 2013, AutoCAD & Adobe Illustrator.

Emma Farmer: Frame Layout, April 2013, AutoCAD & Adobe Illustrator.

Frame A is a common Pine wood architrave used to represent Couple 1 (Sharon & Geoff) who are both middle-class citizens.
Frame B is a Bungalow style architrave made out of Poplar wood to represent the Single Friend (Tim) who is extremely interested in sustainability.
Frame C is a Pine wood Colonial Villa style architrave which is varnished to represent Couple 2 (Lana & Matt) who have more of an expensive taste.

1:1 scale Prototype

Group Installation Scheme

Thresholds are a key idea in our installation. We are playing with the idea of inside and outside and private and communal spaces. Door frames are used to define a threshold however our idea is about the blurring of this threshold, this is shown with the deconstruction of the doorway. Our installation heavily relies on the play on visual and audio senses through the use of one point perspective view and associative, atmospheric sound with indoor and outdoor environments.
 

Emma Farmer & Aditi Kumar: Plan layout showing possible floor configuration of group installation, April 2013, SketchUp.

Emma Farmer: Collage showing interior context of group installation idea, April 2013, & Adobe Photoshop.

Aditi Kumar: Collage showing exterior context of group installation idea, April 2013, SketchUp & Adobe Photoshop.

 

 

 Three door frames are used to represent the group of five friends as they are like three families (the two couples and the single friend) It plays on the relationship between the three 'families' and how they are three individual elements yet come together united at points (as they all pooled their resources to buy a house). The center of the three triangles represents this unity by allowing all three frames to be view from the same spot as you turn around. The three other views (from the outside of the structures) show only one door frame lined up (as seen above) reinforcing the individuality of each 'family'.

Group Installation Brainstorm

BRIEF: Design and build a group installation for your client group (Group of 5 Friends) which represents your new New Zealand Ideal of the Home & Land. Use a key moment from your individual designs you wish to tackle in this installation.

Emma Farmer, Aditi Kumar & Kelly Chapman: Diagram of Initial Ideas for Group of 5 Friends Installation, April 2013, Adobe Illustrator.

Emma Farmer, Aditi Kumar & Kelly Chapman: Threshold Diagram for Group of 5 Friends Installation, April 2013, Adobe Illustrator.

Emma Farmer: Collage of key moment for Group of 5 Friends, April 2013, Adobe Photoshop.

A key moment for the group of 5 friends in my design happens at the threshold between the road and the site where the light-well is directly visible from the street. The threshold between the communal hallway and individual units is also a key moment for them as their unit is at the front. This means everyone walks past the group of 5 Friends unit to get to their own individual units. Creating privacy whilst still allowing light into the hallway is achieved with the use of a screen around the light-well which acts as a visual threshold.

Interior & Exterior Spaces

Emma Farmer: Refined Collage of interior for Group of 5 Friends, April 2013, Autdesk Revit & Adobe Photoshop.

Emma Farmer: Refined Collage of interior for Multi-generational Family, April 2013, Autdesk Revit & Adobe Photoshop.

Emma Farmer: Refined Collage of interior for Nuclear Family, April 2013, Autdesk Revit & Adobe Photoshop.

Emma Farmer: Refined Collage of outdoor living for Retired Couple, April 2013, Autdesk Revit & Adobe Photoshop.

Refined Section

Section:

Emma Farmer: Refined Section of developed scheme 4, April 2013, Autodesk Revit & Adobe Illustrator.

Possible Details:

Emma Farmer: Composite Concrete Floor Detail, April 2013, AutoCAD  & Adobe Illustrator.

 Emma Farmer: Roof Detail, April 2013, AutoCAD  & Adobe Illustrator.