The unique shape of the house intends to utilise the space within and out of the independant spaces. It’s creating a brief reference to structural sculpture, and is making the house more eye-catching.
This development intergrates biophic design into the site. An intergrated stormwater system that links all the indepenant dwellings to a stormwater collection tank in order to water the sites gardens. Each dwelling has two green rooves and two solar panels that feed into a shared electrical storage box. This would channel the complex’s lighting and buffers the residents power intake from the electrical grid.
The external timber facade is made with recycled hardwood timber cut into the specific panelled size. This contributes to the sustainable attributes of the site. Creating a positive environmental effects, including the conservation of old-growth forests, increase of carbon storage, and a lower contribution of greenhouse emissions. This will also create a varitation of colour contributing to an interesting visual texture.
Images above: (Left to Right) Day representation of site, Night representation of site, detail render of black screening on ground level, and detail render of iron feature window on third floor.
Materials Used for Model: 4mm white acrylic, 6mm clear acrylic, 2mm clear acrylic, thin cork sheet, black foam board and thick black card.
The model was constructed from laser-cut acrylic pieces and superglued together with white silicone used to smooth out the edges. The model base is a 6mm clear acrylic sheet with the buildings floor plans engraved into the acrylic, mounted onto a thick sheet of black foam board with cork to represent the dirt without drawing away from the house model.
