battersea 7 - domus sketches

Our group over the past week took the approach of individual design culminating into one glorious design...we failed at this haha. However, realizing our mistake we sat down friday arvo for a little 'pow wow' session and collectively came up with a floor plan that fufilled our brief. This is obviously our inital 'group' floor plan and thus is somewhat flawed (pardon the pun) in areas. Our ideais to seperate our sleeping spaces from that of the "guests" via a set of wings attatched to a central core. The core will obviously comprise of a signular large open space which for one will allow greater air flow as well as encourage communication and socialising of the habbitants due to a lack of areas to hide. Our central core will also employ a larger roof height than that of the wings and will have an extruded eave to shade this area from sunlight and the elements.
Also in this "core" area will be a sunken lounge pit that will have vents open to beneath the house pushing cooler air into the pit making it more pleasant to relax.
the design continues ....