Assignment: Pushing and pulling the opening - Phase 1 - Creating the opening
The sun plays an important role in the human life.
Even though we have equipped ourselves with ties and suitcases through the last
centuries, it does not change the fact that we still are born with a daily
rhythm. A rhythm which contains sleeping during the night and being awake
during the day. Actually a pretty simple rhythm. Scientific studies show our
physical recovery takes place between 22-02 and our mental recovery from 02-06.
It is important to recover in that period. The fact that we have displaced that
rhythm surprises me. I think that the average person gets up at 8 a.m. and goes
to bed around midnight. According to that, I will design my envelope after the
sun and the daily rhythm of the actions, by giving a huge amount of light
through the day. I will make the sun force an occupant up in the morning and
tell the occupant it is sleeping time in the evening by letting him see the
sunset.
The rooms in the cube are
designed for our daily rhythm so the actions which needs sunlight gets it. Off course
I have considered more subjects than that; private/public, social/asocial,
view, orientation, size, scale, atmosphere, comfort, what kind of light could
best support the different actions, and most important of all: The body-room
relationship. Based on these ideas, the rooms have been designed and
carefully positioned in the envelope.
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| Isometry of the envelope |
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| Program of intent |
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| Technical drawings of the envelope |
