Documenting some of my semester’s work.

Hopefully keeping my mind off my troubles.

interiordsgn:

House Faes by HVH Architecten.

It was a desire of the client to achieve a single story house, with a focus on optimal daylight and maximum integration of the house with the terrain. Since the start of the design a collaboration with landscape architect Patrick Verbruggen was established to fully integrate the house with the open space.

The house is situated just beside a creek along the site, thereby the open area of the plot can be maximized in the south part. The functions were literally spread over the plot for optimal contact with the surrounding area. The garden literally blends into multiple interior spaces of the building.The masonry, the floor and the window profiles are black, all interior walls, ceilings and fixed furniture are white. The central volume in the night area and all doors to the outside storages are made in gray wooden planks.”

Remapped AUTOCAD’s shortcut keys today for the first time.

CC -  *COPY
VV - *MOVE
DD - *LINE
FF - *OFFSET
RT - *ROTATE

idk now I feel like a real professional

cabbagerose:

bal house, menlo park/terry & terry architects

via: gabysiena

Actually I’m really interested in that condition. Gotta look into this.

spookygayrobots:

i hate to show stereotypical love for a country i really only share ancestry with but:

look at the scottish parliament building

fucking

look

at it

4x4 House - by Takao Ando

This house was originally designed for a competition and then built for a client. It was designed to sit on the shore-side and face the ocean, allowing viewing through an extremely large window. Amazingly, after the first building was completed, the client requested a second building to be built beside it.

The house’s most noticeable feature is the cube that sticks out of the upper floor; in the most spatial sense, it becomes two volumes that are intersecting each other. However, the intersection is not fully realized in the interior because it is merely one combined space. That doesn’t stop it from implying the boundaries, though; the result is a series of similar ambiguous questions about the space: is it two intersecting volumes, three separate interlocking volumes, or just one space, unified by the purpose of that room?

Takao Ando also works extensively with light; his concrete structures will often cast either emotive shadows or beautiful gradient light. The same goes for the 4x4 House: provided you have a shade mod installed that allows for the dynamic input of sunlight, you will find that the morning sun floods into the floors from one side, especially illuminating the top floor. The noon sun is blocked by the roof, and allows for a relaxing shaded rest. The evening sun streams through the clerestory window on the western side, which throws a soft, reddening glow on the interior.

Throughout the course of the day, the staircase is lit by the sun; the slitted windows at the side also does the same. The windows all provide a vertical dadum that lines the entire house and can imply cutting lines. The material of the house, platform, and wall is made of stone; the other is made of darker materials like obsidian and the such. The lighter building features a center line of darker material on the side where the darker building has a lighter material line down its side. Wood is used in the interiors to provide a soft contrast to the bluntness of the stone material. The middle portions of the roof is made of half-slabs to emphasize the square plan from above.

Have fun building!

Also, my friend, Duhtee, is starting up a channel to post videos that would display some really nice Minecraft architecture! You should totally go check him out.

Original House
Duhtee’s Youtube Channel

4x4 House - info

Height: 12 blocks
Width: 7+ blocks
Length: 7+ blocks
Accommodations: Bed/Workbench/Furnace/Storage/Enchanting

As always, message me if you have questions or want more specific details.

Also, -other work- 

designismymuse:

Feldbalz House byGus Wüstemann (via freshome)

Mending Wall - by BNV Architecture

This building has all the qualities of a modern house: Mending Wall features orthogonal faces and edges, a dense mass supported by light stilts, and is smack-dab in the middle of nowhere. It seems like the staple of most modern houses; after the invention of steel and the beginnings of Miesian architecture, people wanted more volume, more space, and less obstructive designs. Perhaps they wanted the feeling of power, the dance with death, living dangerously beneath the threat of structural collapse. Anyways, this building is simple: it is a volume that suggestively tapers to a point. It features wide-open living area flanked by catwalks and wide floor-to-ceiling windows. Some things line up and create volumes. Other things are symmetrical. There’s a wooden floor on the exterior that implies space. That’s nice. Simple but over-used ideas.

What I also wanted to talk about is import of real buildings into the Minecraft setting. Architects would usually frown at the “dumbing down” of all the work and design into something that is much more simple. They may even make the case that it’s not real architecture because you’re just copying a design brick for brick, block for block.

However, that’s not necessarily true; when you import into Minecraft, the building is essentially undergoing a massive pixelating transformation. While simplifying the building is easy, it is difficult to maintain the original intentions of the design. It takes skill to analyze the original building and reproduce the implied volumes, masses, and feeling of the space.

Keep it up!

Mending Wall - info

Height: 8 blocks
Width: 12+ blocks
Length: 33 blocks
Accommodations: Bed/Workbench/Furnace/Storage/Enchanting

As always, message me if you have questions or want more specific details.

Also, -other work- 

‘Villa Amanzi’ - by Original Vision

People must’ve seen this somewhere before. This is called the Villa Amanzi, designed by a company called Original Vision. Located in Phuket [P-HOO-ket], Thailand, it’s supposed to be an expansive mansion that houses a good number of people. It supposedly boasts a beautiful view of the beautiful Andaman Sea from all possible vantage points. Strange, though, since there’s a cliff next to it and so many trees, but I’ll take their word for it.

There isn’t much to speak of; it’s merely there to invoke beauty. White and clean, it is reminiscent of van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, comprising mainly of horizontal planes. The vertical supports are thin or out of the way, serving to convey the feeling of weightlessness. Lucky for the Villa Amanzi, it is hanging over the side of a cliff, so that feeling is much amplified. Ironically, the Villa is also “rooted” to the cliffside; the ‘left’ side of the building basically extends until it reaches a cliff. The result is a mixture of space and air, created through solid, strong means; it’s a perfect mixture for a relaxing inhabitant, who has the space and freedom, yet needs the reassurance of safety.

Since this converted house is only designed with one or two inhabitants in mind, it is much smaller than it actually is. The mountain serves to conceal a storage area; since that is inside the mountain, whatever it looks like is irrelevant. There is an entire bottom level (visible in the original) missing from the current plans; if anyone approaches me with a request for three or more bedrooms, I will gladly rework something!

Height: 11.5+ blocks
Width: 20+ blocks
Length: 21 blocks
Accommodations: Bed/Workbench/Furnace/Storage/Enchanting

As always, message me if you have questions or want more specific details.

Also, -other work- 

His work.

See this man here? This is Jim. James fucking O’Toole, the most badass architect, man, and friend you will ever know. Words cannot express how much love he puts into his work, his job, his family, his passion, and most of all, his students.

I am honored. To have him as my professor.

I am going to miss him so much, man.