I think this is my least creative sketchbook let me explain
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sketching has always been an area where I tiptoe around but this class by James
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project was to design a zero carbon house that can be self built or
dismantled and fits on a slope site or flat site so I've done some research on
passive sustainable methods and construction and then I landed on
prefabricated timber construction which is proven to be more eco-friendly than
traditional masonry construction these printouts are from a book called design
and built in timber frame explaining the different types of timber frame
construction one is called post-and-beam while the other is platform frame
there's also balloon frame however that type is mainly used in the US
I love printing out their articles or research from time to time as it just
makes it easier for you to highlight and add notes to compare into writing
everything yourself which takes ages let me tell you that these pages are more
research into the science of zero carbon and a few examples of Zero Carbon houses
these pages are probably the best pages of the sketchbook which are my
precedents I always say that your project is as good as your precedents as
so choosing good quality president study is
important step for me and these projects do not disappoint I then
started sketching out my concepts and for me my design method is using
different volumes with different heights and roofs and then connecting them to
create the architecture I try to make the excellent house which I mentioned in
my last video based on modular units but it didn't work to the type of house I
needed in the area because that house is huge compared to zero-carbon houses
which are often compact I will have that video linked in the course for you to
check out as the houses I share and the lessons from each project are very
valuable to architectural students afterwards I came up with this scheme
which I thought was interesting and was heading to where I wanted to be
here I was finalized on the type of construction I'm using which is platform
frame construction using sips panel I would highly suggest watching my
previous axonometric tutorial as I go into construction in more detail we hired at
this point stage 1 presentation which was an informal sit down around the
table and just having a chat about our projects and such this is what I
presented so I had a pretty decent modular floor plan with different ranges
so for example the client can purchase the large unit and then he can purchase
the private office or the additional two bedrooms in the future it needed more
refinement and you know just a few pizazz ideas here and there just to make
it more special and the next page was showing the sections it kind of showed
the idea I was trying to achieve but just not quite there yet but almost
unfortunately this is where things changed so I've met with a lecturer who
had kind of explained the project to me differently he was saying that these
units I'm adding to the building or the so-called accessories should be all one
shape and same height and they all must fit into the lorry and I'm always
fascinated with the sculpture work of Frank Gehry so I took it as a mission to
make Frank Gehry's architecture modular and eco-friendly so I started sketching
out some different shapes and how they could be combined while also working on
CAD to creating a basic rectangular plan to figure out kind of how these units
will work
Eden says not to have different proportions that means that the basic
unit is a square and then if I need any more space than I will fit more units to
create wider or longer units which makes sense but I felt literally in a box the
size that fits in a lorry is literally about two and a half meters by two and a
half meters so all of the crazy ideas that I was so excited about in the
beginning of creating an original house just turn into dust and just ended up
being a house that was fit for mass production now I'm not saying that
that's a bad thing I'm just saying that the project didn't end up to be what I
was hoping for but the final presentation approaching I couldn't
really do any more sketching and designing and just had to go the cubes
and these were the finalized units so here I prepared my presentation board in
Photoshop by combining different boards and then printing them out and sketching
over it which is a technique I've already shared on the channel in this
video I'll have it linked in the cards so three days before the presentation I
printed out a lot of inspiration images from projects and I just went crazy with
sketches came up with a plan that I'm pretty happy with
these are my presentation boards that I presented I like printing them out on an
a4 and adding them to my sketchbook as I think they show the whole journey of the
project and these are the plans and all of the drawings there is one thing that
is annoying me about the plan but I won't say what it is to see if someone
points it out first so basically we aren't graded for this presentation yet
as our final submission is in January so we were all told that we had to explain
how the design is flexible but we had to actually show different schemes so in
January I have to produce different schemes sections elevations and
perspectives of how these units could work which is a lot of work so and
that's not to forget that I also have a dissertation and I also have a theatre
plus renovation project on the side plus I have YouTube so I am not sure one of
these schemes should explore the idea of the sustainable Frank Gehry or should I
just continue with cubes because I have other submissions and now we started in
this new project and even if I give up sleep I won't do everything I want to do
on time so any advice or inspiration would be really really helpful and
greatly appreciated and before I leave this video I just want to say that
sometimes that's what happens a life you submit something that you are not proud
of you're not very 100 percent happy with but I guess that's fine because
this theater project I am super excited about and I am highly highly motivated
to make it something I am very proud of and that is all for today's video I hope
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support the channel i'm Rasha Shrourou and i will see you next time
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