Angel Hernandez Hernandez: Architectural Design I
During the first nine weeks of this class, we were assigned a project. The project was making a backyard cottage for the city, specifically a cottage for a craftsmen. Everybody was assigned a craftsmen and a site; the craftsmen i was assigned was a jeweler.
Craft Investigation
I started my investigation by firstly researching a couple of cottages, just to get an idea of how one should look like. And then I looked up how a jewelers workshops would look like, and I realized they only really need enough space and storage. And after that i went on to lookup different gems and crystals.
Concept Design
After a couple of days of researching for a couple days, we were them told to make at least six concept designs that incorporates features that are unique to our craftsmen. Since my Craftsmen was a jeweler, I had to somehow incorporate that into a cottage, with that I created 5 unique concept designs; these are 3 of my concept designs:
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Schematic Design
I decided to choose this design over the others. Starting off with the floor plan; geological crystals aren't perfect squares or triangles. it tons of different faces all around it, the wall in the front that recedes back by 2 feet resembles the different faces in a geological crystal. The way the rooms are designed, the sharp and imperfect slants in the walls, also resemble crystals. Moving on from the floor plan to the roof, looking at how jagged especially the tallest peak, resembles the tips of geological crystals. Out of all the designs this one closely resembled the jeweler craft compared to the rest.
Final Design
With the final design, it didn't change a lot compare to its concept design. Though the floor plan did get altered a bit, first of it was mirrored, the entrance now being on the left. The way the rooms are arranged, and how they're shaped, resemble topaz. Since topaz is commonly square or rectangularly shaped, and looked up multiple topaz jewelry pieces like: necklaces, rings, earrings, and bracelets. eventually I came across an earing that had 3 rectangular topaz pieces stacked on each other, with the smallest at the bottom and biggest at the top.