Post 2 – Weekly progress

I started off making a table in Excel containing all the rooms supposed to be in the house. I assumed rough dimensions for the rooms, but since they are just to be made as boxes at this step, the dimensions will probably change a lot along the way. I split the rooms into three different categories private, semi-private and public. I’ll try to keep boxes in the same category together, and perhaps have public in one end of the house, and private in the other.

#	Room	Width [m]	Length [m]	Area [m2]	Category	Color
1	Master bedroom	5	4	20	Private
2	Ensuite bathroom	4	4	16	Private
3	Childrens bedroom	4	4	16	Private
4	Childrens bathroom	3	3	9	Private
5	Study	3	3	9	Private
6	Guest bedroom	3	4	12	Semi-Private
7	Guest toilet	3	4	12	Semi-Private
8	Kitchen	6	4	24	Public
9	Living room	8	6	48	Public
10	Separate dining room	5	5	25	Public
11	Laundry	4	4	16	Public
12	Parking for 2 cars	5	5	25	Public
	Total Area			232

I left some area for circulation but I’ll probably need more than the 18 m2 I have at the moment, but they can be taken from the rooms. Also note that with a standard room height of 3 meters, it will not be anywhere near the 900 m3 suggested in the project description. This way the master bedroom or the living room could be made really nice with high ceilings. With this is a starting point I modeled the rooms as boxes in SketchUp. I labeled the room as the numbers in the table, grouped everything and started doing some compositions.  Here are some step by step photos of the room composition.

Here are some snapshots of playing with the 3 primitives shapes.

As seen in the table the light blue ones are the public areas, the dark blues are the private areas and the blue in between are the semi-private areas. I’ve tried combining these areas in different ways. But mainly I imagine the public space to be the connecting joint between these two types of areas. I like the proposal with the flipped pyramid the best, so I think I’ll proceed with that.