House and Garden Model

1:100 Drawings of House and Garden

About my artist - Patricia Piccinini

This house and Gallery space was designed with Patricia Picinini in mind. Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor. Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, drawing, installation and digital prints. She is keenly interested in how contemporary ideas of nature, the natural and the artificial are changing our society.Piccinini's work often anthropomorphises inanimate objects and presents them with a high degree of industrial finish.

The auditorium was designed with her works known as 'swell' in mind. They are large digital prints and videos of the ocean swell far of shore. The gallery spaces were designed with 'The long awaited' in mind. They are large sculptors of have animal half human creations. The aerial views above the gallery space offer a unique perspective on her work.

House and Garden

To complete the brief I have design a space that conforms with the surrounding areas. The first house's purpose is a rental property in this exclusive location offering beautiful views of the city. It is a three storey contemporary terrace house. I wanted the internal layout to be quite traditional, but be very modern with its use of materials. Originally I had the idea to keep the steep roof slope to conform with the terrace houses to the right. After discussion with my tutor I decided to alter my design to include a roof top enterainment area conforming with the taller terrace houses to the left of the site. These terrace houses do not have pitched roofs. This house has the potential to offer a tenat ample privacy, while also maintaining the ability to be integrate with the gallery spaces and auditorium area. The ground floor opens to a large patio area which is intertwined with the other spaces.

My second house houses the gallery space aswell as large private quarters for the artist. Ground level operates as the larger and smaller gallery spaces seperated by an outdoor entertaining area. The most important thing to maintain for all areas of the site are the magnificent views. I have tried to utlise the deep site. level one, acts as an outdoor mezzanine above a glass box which acts The larger gallery space. This is slightly elevated ftrom ground level. The area above the smaller gallery space is inclosed and sheltered with a simple pathway leading to the outdoor mezzanine. This pathway has the same function, offering an elevated view of the smaller gallery space, which has a void spanning two storeys. The upper and lower basements is the artists private home. It boasts volumous spaces which step up and are void in other areas.

The ground level holds an auditorium which is my other public space. This is an area for my artist to display installations projected onto the exterior wall of the adjoining building. I have tried to leave a third of this large site bare to offer potential to create a landscaped oasis.

Reworked Maison A Bordeaux - Model At 1:100

Maison A Bordeaux - Reworked Drawings

Feedback from presentation - Changes Made

During the presentation advise was given on how to improve on my work. I took all this into account and made all the changes advised. They were the following:

• Add an axonometric drawing to the materials analysis to give a better view of my reworked model.



• add text describing the material in my materials anaylsis



• add text describing the spaces in the Maison A Bordeaux and My reworked version in the public and private spaces.



• Add a section that runs through the diagonal of my reworked version of Maison A Bordeaux to give a better idea of the building and its structure.

Maison A Bordeaux - Model At 1:100

Maison A Bordeaux - Plans At 1:100

Maison A Bordeaux - Feedback from presentation & Changes Made

During the presentation of my plans I was given feedback on the execution of my work, and given critisims on where i could improve. I have taken the advise on board and tried to improve my work in the areas discussed. I had an understanding the the presice analysis of the circulation, landscape and structure should be represented individually, however was advised during the presentation that this was not the case. I was asked to:

• combine my landscape analysis with my floor plans


• represent the cave like nature of the ground floor on my floor plans with the use of shading in style with my landscape plans


• Represent the earth on my sections with similar shading techniques


• change the hatching on a column so It was not so overpowering. * reduce the size of my circulation plans


• add the detail of the holes to the structural plan and my axonometric renderings


• Correct a small mistake with the positioning of the structural elements in my structural analysis.

Since the presentation, I have taken all these critisims on board and corrected the mistakes. I hope now they are to the standard that was expected of us.

Maison A Bordeaux - Sketches

Before Drawing my 1 : 100 Plans of Bordeaux House, I modelled it in sketchup. Due to the small amount of information on the house, i felt it best to research thoroughly, and model the structure to give myself a better understanding of the building and all its elements. I found that this was a very useful task, and felt i had greater success in drafting and modelling the building, than i would have had i not taken these crutial steps.

Maison A Bordeaux - The Model: Close to completion

Maison A Bordeaux - The Model: work in progress

Maison A Bordeaux - Clips from Houselife

In researching this house, i found that the images available to the general public (internet or published) were all quite similar, in the fact that they showed all the same elements of the structure. This meant that there was a lot of missing information about different elements of the building. I watched the documentary house life. with the information i had already found, and the documentary, a lot of those missing elements were revealed.

I have captured clips from throughout the documentary that I found to be useful when It came to drawing my plans and sections etc, as well as modeling bordeaux house.

Clip 1 - This Clip shows a set of stairs leading from First Floor down to ground floor. However more importantly, it is one of the few shots that shows the sliding doors that are on an angle of approximately 60 degrees. These doors slide to the glazed wall. the purpose of this door is to shelter the stairwell that leads to the indoor ground floor area from the elements, i.e. rain.

Clip 2 - This clip shows the point at which the angled sliding door meets the glazed wall. At the time of filming this documentary the glass was being replaced, hence the plywood in its place.

Clip 3 - This clip shown the courtyard area between the two guest houses. It is important because all the information I have come across does not show this opening to be a window. It also shows the two walls on either side to be glazed as well.

Clip 4 - Clearly showing the foot bridge leading between the two very separate areas on the Second Floor; the children's bedrooms and the master suite.

Clip 5 - Shows the foot bridge spanning above and across the driveway, leading the the guest house.