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eneral Information:

- Materials: predominantly Chinese bamboo and glass.

- Built on rolling terrain.

- South Westerly aspect (main faade).

- Near the original Great Wall of China.

s part of a groundbreaking development by Chinese tycoon Pan Shi Yi, whorought together 12 leading architects from across Asia.

ttp://int.kateigaho.com/mar04/architect-kuma.html)

A House is.

An Enviromental Filter:

Materials are taken from the natural environment - primarily Chinese bamboo.

Bamboo slats can be open and closed to control sunlight.

Bamboo wall suggests an easy transfer of light and breeze from one side ofe house to the other. http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/0517/environ-

ent_1-2.html)

Chose to leave the natural conditions of the landscape instead ofarting on fat land (http://www.materialicious.com/2009/10/kengo-kuma-

esigns-the-great-bamboo-wall-house-in-china.html)

A Container of Human Activities:

Relationship to the sites context:

A straight, two-story wall of vertical bamboo forms the main facade,

nd though it conforms to the undulating ground at its base ( like the Great

Wall), Kuma sliced it off in a perfectly straight, horizontal line at the top, a sort

f tongue-in-cheek critique of its ancestor. http://int.kateigaho.com/mar04/rchitect-kuma.html)

Bamboo is used to separate one zone from another while affording

impses of spaces beyond. (http://int.kateigaho.com/mar04/architect-kuma.ml)

A central feature of the project is a two-story skylit space, actually anxterior roomenclosed by bamboo walls on three sidesthat seems to foat

ver a shallow pool. (http://int.kateigaho.com/mar04/architect-kuma.html)

A Delightful Experience:

Use of materials. As Kuma himself has noted, The most interesting

rchitectural possibility is living in contact with materials. (http://int.kateigaho.

om/mar04/architect-kuma.html)

Sought to manipulate and dramatize the design possibilities of bamboo.

ttp://www.architectureweek.com/2006/0517/environment_1-2.html)

Material creates a meditative atmosphere transient and de-endent on the changes in the outside weather. (http://www.materialicious.om/2009/10/kengo-kuma-designs-the-great-bamboo-wall-house-in-china.

ml)

Modulation of light and shadow light seeps through slats in theamboo, creating an interesting shadow formation and a harmonic effect.

dditional Information:

nk to video on The Great (Bamboo) Wall House - (http://www.youtube.com/atch?v=xBoeWBdLOCA)

References:

Gradient Magazine, 2010. Kengo Kuma Designs The Great (Bamboo) Wall House in China

http://www.gradientmagazine.com/2009/10/kengo-kuma-designs-the-great-bamboo-wall-house-in-china/

(Accessed February 2010)

Monospaced. 2008 2009. Materialicious: Shelter, Material and Objects.

http://www.materialicious.com/2009/10/kengo-kuma-designs-the-great-bamboo-wall-house-in-china.html

(Accessed February 2010)

Architecture Week. 2006. Two Green Houses: Bamboo House. http://www.architectureweek.

com/2006/0517/environment_1-2.html (Accessed March 2010)

Youtube.com (Design Boom). 2007. Kengo Kuma Great (Bamboo) Wall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBoeWBdLOCA)

Kateigaho International Edition (Japans Art and Culture Magazine): Summer 2004. 2004 - 2005. KengoKuma. http://int.kateigaho.com/mar04/architect-kuma.html) (Accessed March 2010)

Design Boom. 2010. Kengo Kuma: Selected work 1994 2004. http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/

kuma.html (Accessed March 2010)

Kengo Kuma

he Great (Bamboo) Wall House


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eneral Information:

Northern Idaho, built 2002.

Site: 0.5 acres

House: 3400 square feet

Accommodates 10 people

Westerly aspect (window wall)http://www.homedesignind.com/architecture/chicken-

oint-cabin/).

A house is.

An Environmental Filter

Cabin features a large 20 foot by 30 foot window

wall that opens the entire living area to the surrounding

andscape of forest and a lake. This design concept blurs the

ne between outside and inside living.

Low maintenance, uninished materials were used:teel, concrete block, plywood and concrete loors. These

materials would naturally age and give a inish that would

t in with the natural environment.

The front door is at normal width, but extends in

eight to 19 feet. This design imitates the pine trees in the

urrounding dense forest. This ilters out the surroundings,

ut still also maintains being a part.

A Container of Human Activities

The height of the front door is 19 feet, allowing it toccommodate for ski equipment used in the surrounding

rea.

Strong blocks of colour deine different spaces and

irect the viewers eye. http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.

om/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin

A Delightful Experience

While the cabins design is about bringing the out-

ide in, the ireplace inside the cabin gives a refuge for the

esidents. http://indarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTE/

s_4_9/ai_n14709447/

The window wall creates a beautiful picture frame of

he lake and forest outside.

dditional Info: Follow this link: http://vimeo.com/5862999 to

ee a video of Tom Kundig discussing his designs.

eferences:

Weber, C. May, 2005. Custom / 3,500 square feet or less grand: Chicken Point Cabin,

orthern Idaho: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen architects: Seattle. Residential

rchitect. http://indarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTE/is_4_9/ai_n14709447/

Accessed March 2010).

ome Design Find. 2010. Chicken Point Cabin. http://www.homedesignind.com/

rchitecture/chicken-point-cabin/ (Accessed March 2010).

mages sourced from:

lson Kundig Architects. 2010. Chicken Point Cabin. http://www.olsonkundigar-

hitects.com/Projects/101/Chicken-Point-Cabin (Accessed March 2010).

Tom Kundig

Chicken Point Cabin


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General Information:

Built in 1998 at 3 Hiron Street, St Lucia. (Build-

er Greg Thornton).

It was highly awarded by the RAIA in 2000, andfrom 2000-2008 has been published, analysed and ex-

hibited in Australia and internationally, and frequently

visited by distinguished architects and academics.

(http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:163464/

Claim_SLHouse.pdf)

Direct northerly aspect.

Here is a link to a very in-depth analysis of St Lucia

House, and its signiicance as a design. (http://espace.ibrary.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:163464/Claim_SLHouse.

pdf)

The main points from the essay are as follows:

1) It is a novel spatial coniguration for housing that

demonstrates an economically feasible, socially and

environmentally sustainable and aesthetically and

culturally desirable model of higher density family liv-

ng for South-East Queensland.

2) Demonstrates a high level of achievement in the

art and science of architecture.

3) Exemplify and inluence academic, professional

and public acceptance of a regional modernist theo-

retical position and its values in Queensland.

4) Exemplify an appropriate model for future re-

search by design within the ield of architecture.

Central Design elements:

site originally the backyard of an old house 400

square metres.Three large trees stand in line with one an-

other - house is a simple orthogonal plan built around

these trees.

Eco-plywood and unpainted iber cement clad-

ding interchanges with full height glass panels

Immensity of the living room is heightened by

the stretch of the full height windows

Dramatic play of lines

Emphasis on the intersections and connections

of the inside and outside

Follow this link for more information -

http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:l1Obbuj4F7EJ:stud

entbiennale.com.au/i-cms_ile%3Fpage%3D12336/Cubes_

May_2009001.pdf+st+lucia+house+elizabeth+watson+brown&c

d=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=safari)

References:

Skinner, P. Claims to the Signiicance of the St. Lucia House as De-

sign Research and Contribution to Knowledge. School of Geogra-phy Planning & Architecture, University of Queensland, (2004)

Accessed via http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:163464/

Claim_SLHouse.pdf in March 2010.

Australian Institute of Architects, 2010. Cubes.

http://www.architecture.com.au/icms_ile?page=12336/Cubes_

May_2009001.pdf (Accessed February 2010).

Queensland Art Gallery, 2010. Placemakers: Contemporary

Queensland Architects. www.qag.qld.gov.au/placemakers (Ac-

cessed February 2010)

Images sourced from:

Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects, 2010. St Lucia House http://

www.elizabethwatsonbrownarchitects.com.au (Accessed March

2010)

Elizabeth Watson Brown

St Lucia House(Exemplar house)


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St Lucia House(Exemplar house) SITE ANALYSIS

St Lucia

House site

- Window wall has Northerly as-

pect street frontage.

- Entry from the street northen

face.

- Entry to the right of house

- River within 100 metres

- Close proximity to surroundinghouses and street.

Roof Plan 1:200

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A House is.

An Environmental Filter:

Her architecture is notable for the blurring of boundaries between

he landscape and interior domestic space and a sensuous engage-

ment with the subtropical climate (www.qag.qld.gov.au/placemak-

ers)

Breezy passageway for extra natural ventilation. Micro-cli-

mate: positioning of trees pre-cools summer breeze entering house.

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:163464/Claim_SLHouse.

pdf)

Emphasis on the intersections and connections of the inside

and outside. It is an architectural space which is neither fully inter-

nal nor fully external, and that offer the stimulating experience ofambiguous enclosure.

House is built around the existing three trees on the site

two mango trees, one Poinciana) (http://www.architecture.com.au/

cms_le?page=12336/Cubes_May_2009001.pdf)

o Footings: The stability offered by deep, engineered pier

footings (necessitated by soft alluvial soils), encouraged the decision

o build unconventionally close to the substantial existing trees as a

fundamental siting decision.


pdf)

A Delightful Experience:

Window wall presents a cinematic view of the textural

andscape outside. (http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:163464/

Claim_SLHouse.pdf)

Reection of dappled light from the surrounding trees and

pool enters through the window wall, creating a harmonic effect.

This is possible due to the manipulation of the sun orientation.

o The simple, unadorned surfaces of the architectural spaces

were designed to be enlivened by diurnal and seasonal movements

of light, shadow and reection made possible by the solar orienta-

ion and extreme adjacency of trees and water. Planned and realisedvisual effects include the alternating seasonal dominance of sunlight

or shadow, animated leaf shadow and dappled light cast on wall

planes; tracery silhouettes on translucent glass and canvas screens,

and rippling water reections and sparkles on walls and ceilings.


pdf)

Spacial conguration: Small, hidden, private balcony niches

gives delight through split-level manipulation. (http://espace.library.

uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:163464/Claim_SLHouse.pdf)



Ground oor 1:200

1st oor 1:200

Roof Plan 1:200 Critical Section

2m 10m

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A house is.....

A Container of Human Activities:

Allows passive climate control.

No walls to dene different areas of house i.e.

Living room is designed as one large open space - island

bench in kitchen used to slightly dene areas.

Unique special sequence brought about by

split level planning assists movement. (http://www.

architecture.com.au/icms_le?page=12336/Cubes_

May_2009001.pdf)

Neighbourhood Engagement. The openness of

iving spaces and decks to the street allows visual and so-

cial engagement with street and neighbourhood activity.

t seeks to re-invigorate traditional front verandah, front

porch and front fence community socialising threatened

by more defensive and introspective housing design.

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:163464/Claim_

SLHouse.pdf)

Here are three some design elements explored in great

depth in a claim by St Lucia Houses co-architect,

Peter Skinner: (http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/

UQ:163464/Claim_SLHouse.pdf)

Household Focus. The physical and symbolic

centrality of the open living spaces within the vertical

arrangement reinforces family intercommunication while

sliding doors permit sub-division into three different

social settings.

Privacy Gradients. The sectional half-level

vertical alternation gives free spatial intercommunication

between all ve levels of the open arrangement, while

solid waist-height balustrades preserve an upward visual

privacy gradient even when the house is fully open. Inter-

nal sliding doors allow further control of internal privacy

zoning.

Lifecycle Flexibility. The semi-independent

and well-connected ground oor plan allows for exibil-ty of future usage for the following possible scenarios

over time: second studio and guest room; home business

professional ofce; or a two-room at for aging relatives,

fourth-generational family, or family friends.

Critical section

(Easterly aspect)

1:100

Axonometric perspective

(Interior bedroom/living area)

Elevation Exterior

(Northerly aspect)

1:100



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Perspective 1 (Northern aspect)

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2nd/3rd Floor Plan 1:100

SECTION

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SECTION 2SECTION 3

Perspective 1

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Ground Floor Plan 1:100


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Wall feature reduces bright-

ness/harshness of early morning

Easterly sun in the bedroom.

Solid waist-height balustrades on

the easterly wall of the second and

third levels, preserve an upward

visual privacy gradient.

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1st Floor Plan

Roof Plan

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SECTION 2

SECTION 3

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ELEVATIONS

Southern aspect

Western Aspect

Eastern Aspect


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Exemplar HouseCabin Design

A house is a.....

Container of Human

Activities

D I A G R A M S

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A house is an.....

EnvironmentalFilter

D I A G R A M S



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D I A G R A M S

A house is a.....

DelightfulExperience


(See 2nd/3rd oor Cabin plan)


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Site Analysis

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Elizabeths Cabin

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St Lucia House

Elizabeth Watson

Brown

Chicken Point Cabin

Tom Kundig

The Great (Bamboo)

Wall House

Kengo Kumar

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A place for working.....

A place for reecting...

A place for

dining...A place for cooking...

A place for sleeping...

A place for living...

A place for abluting...

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A house is an environmental lter.

Materials: The strong concrete faade on the South to West

sides protects the Cabin from that orientations strong winter

winds and summer storms.

Context: The Cabin is built around existing vegetation, creat-

ng a central courtyard.

Natural ventilation: These trees pre-cool the summer breeze

hat enters the cabin. Cross ventilation is facilitated throughhigh southern windows.

A house is a container of human activities.Structural facades: solid, waist-height balustrades preserve an

upward visual privacy for the top split-levels from the lower

public living areas.

Open plan: The open plan of the Cabin, with the central court-

yard, allows for uid movement between spaces.

Privacy zoning: Sliding glass panels can be pulled back to

et all breezes ow through, or can be closed to form a glassfaade protecting from the harsh climate.

A House is a delightful experience.Panoramic Views: The positioning of the Cabin in the site

context allows the occupants to feel completely encompassed

by nature (forest and stream) no other houses are visible in

he Cabins focal northern aspect.

Dappled light: As a result of the sun orientation and position-

ng of the pool and trees, dappled light is reected joyously on

he Cabins plain interior walls.Hidden niches: There are a number of small, hidden niches

hroughout the cabin, one being in the top-most oor at the

southern end of the cabin. This small alcove directly over-

ooks the central courtyard and beyond, which gives a har-

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