Vault House
Autumn 2019
Academic
GSD 1101_Core I: PROJECT
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Instructor: Sean Canty
Academic
GSD 1101_Core I: PROJECT
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Instructor: Sean Canty
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In this project, we were tasked with designing a new structure through interpreting a seemingly modest plan. Without assigned lineweights, students explored orthographic projection and its volumetric and conceptual consequences.
The Vault House explores the eligibiity of curvature to be legible in an orthographic plan drawing. In my initial reading of the plan, there were three main themes that arose: 1) domesticity, 2) seriality (twin/triplet groupings, and 3) rotational or mirrored symmetry. The domesticity was apparent in the scale I interpreted the plans. Seriality can be observed in several instances. A triplet of rooms sandwiching two staircases. A pair of L-shaped residences that rotate around a central courtyard. The residences are connected through a series of three courtyards (two private, one public) that runs obliquely through the plan. Ultimately, the original logic of the plan has been rotated as the series of three volumes can be now read through the East Elevation. |
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Axon
1st Floor Plan
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2nd Floor Plan
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Roof Plan
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Elevation
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Section 01
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Section 02
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