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  • Rusty Raven M
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    1 year ago

    Sustainable design of houses. The assignments for this subject are all about making a brief for your own housing project, and this week I am trying to find some examples of designs I like. There is a subject I will do next year that focuses on landcape as well.

    I think I’ve found my examples now:

    This one for "quality" (as in quality of light etc, not quality of the building work itself)

    Garden Tower House

    Image: A garden alcove in the house brings light and relaxing views inside the house, with a corridor opposite the alcove providing a day bed with space to relax.

    This one for "functional"

    Bellvue Terrace

    This space is designed to both connect the inside to the back yard, and also provides a multitude of sliding doors and shutters to enable it to be varied for different times of day and different seasons.

    • Thornburywitch
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      1 year ago

      Fascinating. Both seem to have a very japanese feel to them, while being quite different. This sounds like a very interesting assignment.

    • Bottom_racer
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      1 year ago

      The bellvue terrace is a huge no from me. I wouldn’t survive those steps after a few.

      • Rusty Raven M
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        1 year ago

        I’d definitely be avoiding the steps for myself too, but the space above it looks pretty good.