Battersea 7 - domus fianl pres. sheets

For our proposal we decided to spread our drawings over four panels. Two panels were on A2 and two were on A1.
The first panel shows our design development through the sketching of ideas. In the review it was brought to our attention that perhaps a better way of showing the development process would have been by using the 'thumbnail' approach with smaller sketches down the sides of all the panels over the presentation, linking certain elements together and showing were initial ideas stemmed from.



The second of our panels shows the floor plan and site plans. due to the size of our building needing to accommodate at any one time up to 12 guests, we were only able to fit the floor plan at a legible and clear scale at an angle on a A1 sheet. The floor plan itself shows how we stuck with the idea of having a central living core to separate the private spaces of both the guests and permanent residents. The contours of the site also indicate that we had placed our building on a decent slope rather than pure flat site to take advantage of aspects that a slope site has opposed to a totally flat one which are shown in the sections.



The section are also on a A1 panel due to their need to be visible from afar and detailed. The sections help show how ventilation plays a large part in our building. The section in the middle to the right indicates how we will use cool air flow from beneath the building to push hot air out and reduce the stagnant air that humidity brings. We have also used the system of having a smaller opening towards the back of the building which prevailing winds will hit, that willl travel below the building to a larger opening creating a natural reverse vaccum.
The final panel on an A2 sheet shows our proposed building in digtially rendered form. Our previous posts have spoken about materiality but to reiterate, the main materials used are timber battns along the 'wings' and a colrobond sheeting wrapped around the 'core'.
It was mentioned to us in the review that perhaps this last panel may have been more useful with fewer images or at least creating a more focused heirarchy with the images used.
We are now moving onto the test and refine stage of the domus building and have already come across multiple changes to make our building better.