Aidyn Rojas: Architectural Design I
Project 01: Pavillon Drawing
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On this project I built a series of study models to convey the word and idea of broad and how it relates back to the Texas Prairie itself. The idea we were exploring was how do we apply our word to the prairie and have this building that is actually found somewhere in the Texas Prairie our own kind of land with a building we constructed. So the process for constructing my final model was pretty long and took weeks and it all started with the word bubble map then I found a word a liked broad then we completed our word drawing then we took a piece of from it and made it into a building that took place in the Texas Prairie.
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Title: “Bluebonnets Near Ennis, Tx” Creator: “Brent_1“— https://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/Brent_1?mediatype=photography
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A simple description and explanation to why and how my word Broad in addition to my word drawing connects back to the Texas Prairie is how they both resemble back to how obliviously that the Texas Prairie is massive tying back to my word broad. I was trying to convey and show the word broad by having every connected and kind of network like the Texas Prairie itself. The way I wanted to go about it was just to make it look interesting but have everything connected by these strange and interesting shapes. I wanted to communicate through my drawing that the Texas Prairie is this giant mass of land that almost never seems to stop and has no end. The shapes most commonly seen throughout my word drawings are circles and triangles. The strategies I used were simply to have everything connected and and almost seem to flow off the page like the Texas Prairie itself.
Throughout the research part of my project I had originally come to this conclusion that this place we call the Texas Prairie was just a really big hunk of mud and dirt. But after a while I came to a new conclusion that it was this place that was almost like a bastion where tons of life congregate to live in a home. Some of the major characteristics I noticed was that it stretched as far as the eye could see.
Throughout the research part of my project I had originally come to this conclusion that this place we call the Texas Prairie was just a really big hunk of mud and dirt. But after a while I came to a new conclusion that it was this place that was almost like a bastion where tons of life congregate to live in a home. Some of the major characteristics I noticed was that it stretched as far as the eye could see.
A Texas Prairie Pavilion
Parti
I started the pavilion project originally by picking my little piece of the drawing from my word drawing and making my soon to be parti drawing. The parti I chose had a unique look to it as the inside was almost contorted along with the outside of my parti. How it ultimately connects back and represents the landscape it by being ample to side to side and having everything connected. So whenever I decided on my parti for the project the three designs/options I explored was just really adding and taking away parts of the building I originally had on the building.
I started the pavilion project originally by picking my little piece of the drawing from my word drawing and making my soon to be parti drawing. The parti I chose had a unique look to it as the inside was almost contorted along with the outside of my parti. How it ultimately connects back and represents the landscape it by being ample to side to side and having everything connected. So whenever I decided on my parti for the project the three designs/options I explored was just really adding and taking away parts of the building I originally had on the building.
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Final Parti Diagram
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Prairie Pavilion Studies
Pavilion Model and Drawings
The overall target for my model was to express the word broad. How I actually went about doing this was by making the space very open and having multiple openings in the building itself and making the bottom floor completely barren of space. So now my drawings with them I just really wanted to kind of simply convey to whoever was looking over my work is that I wanted whoever might’ve been in the building to have multiple points to look out into the Tx Prairie. In addition to this with my drawings I wanted to show how them just how strange the building itself looked from like a birds eye view/ above.
Project 02: Airbnb
So the objective of my work is to make a Airbnb in the prairie for people to come and stay and experience or take in the prairie. We are supposed to achieve this by using a word we found that describes the prairie in a specific way such as the word broad my word. So my building was long and wide hence broad and for my work the design I was striving for was simply stretch out the building in different ways such as windows and the buildings overall length. But not only that I wanted for there to multiple ways to see out into the prairie to further show off my word broad and show how long the prairie really is.
Project Site
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Airbnb Arrival Method
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Concept Design
In terms of my concept design the way I ultimately got there was by messing around with the lengths of the windows and the building itself. The ideas around my project is simply stretch out certain aspects of the building and having an abundance of windows to look out of basically something of importance to the building itself hence the overall length and the windows. But not only that I have the terrace as a different way to look out into the prairie and take it in. But the biggest difference from the terrace and the windows from a observation standpoint is simply you’re actually outside rather than being inside the Airbnb looking from a building.
Final Design
So in terms of my work the building is very simple since the materials mainly consist of brick and wood. Then the form stretches very long and wide side to side to express the word broad. Then onto the environment it sways side to side and looks like a "U" shaped valley I addressed this design aspect by placing my buildings opposite ends towards each opening of the valley to kind of flow with it. Then the valley like contours help me better show and express broad by having the landscape itself sway side to side which comes back to my word definition being having an ample distance from side to side.
