Chinatown Cultural Center

Rough rendering of the study model.

B1 Studio #8: Boat House

B-1 Studio #7: Boathouse Begins

B-1 Studio #6: Drawing

What good is a model without a set of drawings?

Site Plan

B1 Studio #5: Final Model

This final part of project 1 is a transformation of the building being studied. Based on my analysis, I’ve changed the original building into the coolest vacation home around.

B1 Studio #4: Re-arranging the diagrams

One entry ago, we showed you the layered isometric diagram of the Mountain Tree House elements.

B-1 Studio #3- Diagrams

Axonometric diagram of the Mountain Tree House

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It seems that this little house is all about units.
Sleep in the red block.
Play on the green deck.
Work (garden, woodshop, garage) in the blue block.

The red unit has a shower door that opens to the outside. I think the folks who own this house like to be outside getting dirty. So much so that they placed the entrance to the shower outside of the sleeping quarters so that you can step directly into the shower without passing through your smallish living space.
Interesting.

B-1 Studio #2

Diagram sketches. This house is so simple that it is proving to be really difficult to diagram.

NYC iphone photos

Cameraphone shots from the past year. Some edited, some not.

B-1 Studio #1

B1 Studio at the BAC is all about analysis. The first project uses design drawings from an existing project to teach the fundamentals of building analysis. I’ve chose Scogin+Elam’s Mountain Tree House.