Form Study 1.1

Yay, I’ve now been an architecture student at TU Delft for four weeks! So I thought, why not post some of my creations in here.

This is the first thing we had to make for Form Study. I got a pretty good grade (8/10) for it too. We also had to write a little something , so here it is…

The composition has a clear sense of direction, which is achieved in placing most of the rectangular plates with their long sides mirroring the long side of the rectangular base. The structure is essentially asymmetrical; however its core component has rotational symmetry. In order to ‘tie’ up the building, the 5 cm size and its multiples are used throughout the structure (be it 2.5 cm or 7.5 cm). 

The structure is essentially open, with numerous lines of sight from most of the spaces ‘inside’. This fuzzes the boundary between open and closed, inside and outside; the space flows through and around structure, allowing to differentiate between the outside, while ‘inside’ is defined less explicitly. The divisions created by the positioning of planes are also connected, either through openings, or by an underlying plane connecting both spaces. 

The structure seems to be defined by its width and lenght rather than height, but with a closer look, we can observe elements that define the space also on the vertical axis, creating a more balanced structure. The difference in height between the vertically positioned elements is great enough to let them define certain spaces, but not great enough to place the emphasis solely onto the vertical plane. 

As references, I use the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe, Brazilian national congress by Niemeyer and the Schroder House by Rietveld.