Week 2
1) Dining Room: The grounding element.
I perceived the dining room to be an environment where a couple would be required to remain civil despite any previous opposition of views - a still and almost sterile environment with regulated diffuse light. I will create this atmosphere by avoiding openings with direct sunlight, and the reflection of light off a concrete ceiling. The lack of 'true' windows also controls the environment, allowing it to become highly insular, and contributing to the feeling of stillness and focussing (or confining) the attention of the client to the room and the contents within it - in this case, their partner across the table.
The tension is pulled through the room with the overhead beam, and additionally, other planar elements such as the side benches and the long table with its seats on opposing ends of the table arranged in bi-axial symmetry. The use of a solid beam is to juxtapose the light and dark.
2) Lounge Room: The dynamic element.
This room related to the reading of the paper and piano - the silence and possibly the source of the tension. To oppose the grounded nature of the dining room, the lounge was perceived as being greatly separated from the values of its counterpoint and thus required a degree of detachment.
The window in this room is large like the painting to allow a sense of looking into the space.
3) The link between the two
The lounge is physically detached from the dining room, yet the two are still linked by the theme of tension.
Both rooms are highly insular, pulling against each other. It is this point of directional change that escapes the confines of the walls of building however, that very subtly suggests an easily overlooked point of balance between the two opposing forces.
1) Dining Room: The grounding element.
I perceived the dining room to be an environment where a couple would be required to remain civil despite any previous opposition of views - a still and almost sterile environment with regulated diffuse light. I will create this atmosphere by avoiding openings with direct sunlight, and the reflection of light off a concrete ceiling. The lack of 'true' windows also controls the environment, allowing it to become highly insular, and contributing to the feeling of stillness and focussing (or confining) the attention of the client to the room and the contents within it - in this case, their partner across the table.
The tension is pulled through the room with the overhead beam, and additionally, other planar elements such as the side benches and the long table with its seats on opposing ends of the table arranged in bi-axial symmetry. The use of a solid beam is to juxtapose the light and dark.
2) Lounge Room: The dynamic element.
This room related to the reading of the paper and piano - the silence and possibly the source of the tension. To oppose the grounded nature of the dining room, the lounge was perceived as being greatly separated from the values of its counterpoint and thus required a degree of detachment.
The window in this room is large like the painting to allow a sense of looking into the space.
3) The link between the two
The lounge is physically detached from the dining room, yet the two are still linked by the theme of tension.
Both rooms are highly insular, pulling against each other. It is this point of directional change that escapes the confines of the walls of building however, that very subtly suggests an easily overlooked point of balance between the two opposing forces.
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