wk4

     For our fourth assignment we finally had to gather all of our, brilliant and also not so brilliant, ideas on to the digital 'paper'. Off course we couldn't use our pencils or pens for that, but none other than Adobe's almighty Illustrator.
    Jokes aside, the task we had was actually really practical and we could learn a lot from it. I'm saying that because we live in a world that is getting digitalized on every level possible. And we as the 'future' architects will rely heavily on the computer technology and what it brings.
   Well, everything aside, the task we had was basically to represent our idea and our concepts; how we got to them and represent them according to the unwritten rules of information design.

    Here I've sketched how most of the basic traditional houses look like. Most of wich have simple two sloped roofs. Even though, this shape does a pretty good job of keeping the weather out and our heads safe, I've decided to start here and build my own concept around the roof itself.

     As I've already mentioned in the previous post wk3, my site has an awesome southerly orientation. Therefor it has a potencial for harnessing the solar power in every way possible. And I'm not just talking about generating electricity and hot water.. I want to bring as much natural light as possible into the building. This will help save a lot of energy, it will lower the heating costs and it will also improve the quality of life for it's residents.

    This is where I started thinking, how could I make this possible without ruining the basic shape of the roof and keep it in some sort of boundaries, so it wouldn't disturb visual appearance of the wider area to much (because of the building permits, etc.).

     Here is how I've approached the problem. First I took the top and the side view of the two-sloped roof house. And then I divided the top view into three equal parts. Then I sort of pushed horizontally  first and second half together as if they were made from some ideal material. Then I flatend the middle part just for a little bit and pulled that side out a bit. The image above shows how my final idea looks like from the side view.

      For better understanding how all the elements would come together at the end I've also made a perspective view of the building. This part actually took me quite some time to figure out, but it proved to be extremely helpful to me. I tried a couple of different methods, for creating sun reflections in the windows and I've learned a lot from that. And I got to say I am really happy with the end result.

Here is a link to the tutorial that helped me a lot with this assignment:

Tutorial

     For conclusion I can only say, that there is no other way so efficient and so easy, for transfering our ideas from our heads to some other media, as paper and pen. Until now at least... But we can only guess where the future will take us.