Presentation of Project 2

Lady Writting a Letter with her Maid is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1670-1671 and held in the National Gallery of Irland. The work shows a middle-class woman attended by a maid who is presumably acting as messenger and go-between for the lady and her lover. The work is seen as a bridge between the quiet restraint and self-containment of Vermeer's work of the 1660s and his relatively cooler work of the 1670s.

KEYWORDS FROM THE PAINTING: Freedom, Interaction, Social Hierachy

Reasons for choosing the site in HAWAII

1. SUNNY environment represents kind of sense of freedom, associating with the view of OCEAN.

2. MIXED CLIMATE provides varise possiblities in terms of forming the space.

3. Based on personal experience, beach environment makes me feel to go.

PARTI 1

1. Create the opening all around the space to portray a sense of "FREE TO GO AND GEI IN".

2. Dividing the circle shape into 4 parts to present different functions based on different climate characters on each direction.

3. Put glasses on the centre of the space together with the gutter on the floor to create a water-environment especially during raining. However, glasses will highly reflect the natural light during the day when its not raining to bright the interior space.

PARTI 2

1. Put a small beam under the roof to create a small gap to gain the vantilation through the building especailly on the upper level which there is not many opening on that.

2. Make it as a circle shape, aiming to naturally form a central wind floating system to cool the space due to the highly humid place comditions.

Photo taken from the model

Parti drawings (final)

The site is actually surrounded by the walkway that different views of Villa Muller would be caught from different points. Also, serise of opening on each facade provides beautiful views from interior. This interpretes the idea of "interection" within Villa Muller.

Within the design, it will be easliy found that there is a repeatable object appearing on each level. This built-in furnituure certainly refers to Adolf loos's architectural language which is the way of welcoming people into the building, especially at the entrance. Instead of putting door at the centre of the entrance, providing sitting there seems to be more invited from outside looking.

The stairs illustrates the idea of "connection" in this building. It links all parts of the building both horizontally and vertically. People would have choice to go up or down when they get into the building. I guess this is the reason why the main entrance of the building has been set up on the right in terms of the direction of the slope

From my point of view, level four might be thought as the most interesting level of all that the way of defining the space. As the biggest room been set up as a double height space, people who are seating in the dinning room could look down into the main hall directly and actually see what happening there. It creates the inner-relationship between the spaces. Also, people who are walking on the stairs could see through the colums along the side of both spaces. In addition, it is interesting to find the way Loos created that how people can go to the dinning room from main hall, which people have to walk out living room first then get into next room compare to the way how people could see directly from dinning into main hall.

On the roof, it is interesting to think about the reason which Loos wanted to put the walls on half way and tried to achieve the view area as shown above. It might be said that he wanted to hide something that he didnot really want to see at that moment. Because at the time this house been built, we are not really sure about wnat was actually surrounding the building.

Poche drawing (final)

As I learned in the studio, I realised the importance of defining the space within the drawing. The point is to show the initial idea of the building by free-hand drawing.

Parti Drawing - Based on my own understanding

As I go through the case studies on Villa Muller, I found the idea behind the complicate drawing. The stair shows the idea of 'connection' which refer to the way how the sapces within the building link to each other. Also, I notice that the balcony on level four is another key point of this building that shows the interection between the building and outside social environment.

DESIGN STUDIO3: Project 1 - Villa Muller House _ Research

In prague, one of Loos's seminal building has been rescued from neglect and obscurity and faithfully restored.

while many twentieth-century building evoke a strong emotional response, only a handful of small-scale works have the same effect. Within this category belongs adolf Loos' Villa Muller in Prague.

The villa was designed within a few weeks in 1928 and built in Prague 1929-30 for Frantisek Muller, an Enguneer and partner of a large construction firm, Kapsa & Muller. It stands on a steep slope overlooking surrounding villas and close to a main avenue to the city centre. At first sight it appears almost too simplistic, its exterior refusing to divulge interior splendour and fulfilling Loos' notion ehat 'the building should be dumb ouside and only reveal wealth inside'.