Chloe Hammett: Architectural Design I
For my project I had to design a backyard cottage for the city of Lewisville! A backyard cottage is known to be an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), or as a tiny home in your backyard. We were given a craft and had to make a backyard cottage based off the craft we were given. The craft I got was a stained-glass artist! things that come with stained glass is putting different geometric shapes together to create something. Stained glass can also come across as kaleidoscopic, but stained glass is nothing without light or color.
Craft Investigation
When I first started investigating and trying to gather information, I was very confused and had no idea what to do. I just started to find random things rather than getting information that relates to my client, but once I started to get the hang of it, I understood it a lot more. An idea I had was to make a tiny Victorian style home because that's what I thought went best with stained glass, and the Victorian style home did have some traits that went with stained glass. But it wasn't really a style home you would see in the city of Lewisville, so I had to change it to something that would go more with my client's craft. I started to learn more about what I was supposed to do when I did some more research on stained glass then ideas started flowing.
Concept design
These are the 3 different ideas I had in mind for my concepts! On some of my concepts I definitely was not thinking or anything because some of them make absolutely no sense to match my client's craft. I really was just going with it hoping it would turn out but then I started to get a better understanding of what I was supposed to do. Then everything started completely changing when I started my third concept.
Concept 1:
So, this concept doesn't really have anything to do based off my client's craft. When making this I was in my own little la-la world not knowing what I'm doing at all!! It's basically just a regular normal one-story house, nothing special to it. Nothing stained glass related, and it doesn't really have a story to it.
Concept 2:
For this concept, I was basically just putting pieces together hoping it would come out looking somewhat pleasant. After I had finished putting the pieces together, I flipped the model around different ways to see how I would like it, and I just came to the point that the original one I had made was the best one. This one also doesn't really have a story for it, it doesn't really relate to stain glass either.
Concept 3:
This concept was the best one and the one that inspired me the most to keep going with it!! This one I created relates to my client's craft and has many features that go with it as well. Looking through the house from a specific angle, it looks kaleidoscopic, the different shapes of the walls and how they're layered showing off that feature. It also has different geometric shapes put together just like stained glass does!
Concept 1
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Concept 2
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Concept 3
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Schematic Design
Out of the 3 concepts I chose the third one! I chose the third one because it made the most sense to me, there were specific characteristics that were with that model that made me pick that one over the others. This model has many geometric features to it, such as the windows, and the different pieces that were put together to create the model. Which is why it relates to stained glass! Stained glass is basically different geometric shapes put together to create something, it can also be seen as kaleidoscopic from looking at it a specific way. So looking at the model from the side view it creates a kaleidoscopic view, considering that the walls are different shapes and sizes so it gives off that effect. Stained glass is nothing without light, meaning that this model has to have lots of windows to provide natural light, natural light is needed to make the stained glass look prettier.
Final Design
For my final design, it reflects my concept 3 but a little less. This model also has some geometric features with it, the different shaped windows, and the different shapes to create the model. This model is not as fun looking as the other one, some of the same features were kept but not all of them. The different sloped roofs don't really have anything to do with the stained-glass craft but, majority of the house represents stained glass. Some inspiration was from the Rietveld Schroder House made by Gerrit Schroder; it has different geometric shapes that are layered and has different pieces sticking out. The main pieces of design are the different geometric features in the model, all of the windows are geometric shapes used to represent the craft. Overall, I wish I had stuck with my gut and kept the original features I had made with the house considering it looks so much better than this model I created. If I got a chance to redo this model I would do it like my first one I had made 100%.