Domus Sketches

Here are some of the early sketches we had for our Domus design. These were done in the first week sothese were the basic ideas we developed throughout the last few weeks.

Initially we played with the idea of a glass box that had large eaves for shade but effectively what we had designed was a greenhouse, not appropriate for living in! So the next stage was ventilation. We louvered all of the walls and incorporated bi-fold doors so the internal spaces could become part of the external balcony.

As both a design feature and means of collecting water, we worked in a water feature that wenyt from ceiling to floor through the living area and was a glass rectangular prism. Eain water collected from the roof would travel down this shaft of glass and effectively a water fall was created internally. The pitch of the roof for this can be seen in the first image but this became useless as there was not nearly enough shade. So a traditional pitch was decided on and we had our overall.

Internally we wanted to design the 'private' spaces from the living areas. We did this by the use of two shafts that ran north/south and east/west. This allowed us to close of the bedrooms and bathroom/toilet so we could have full glass walls. Into these shafts we used shelving that defined the shape of them so we could maximise the space. All working back to the theme of the semester...'Mimilism'.

As can be seen through these images we played with a few forms early before working together what we liked and creating a 'hybrid' of our designs. What we achieved in the end was a design that we felt satisfied the brief both architecturally and in terms of the climate, hot/humid.