Frank Gehry Residential - Santa Monica
CAD Drawings
Floor Plans:
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Axonometric :
(a) Maximum Private Area
- L-Shaped of the front yard. Most lousy at the the traffic junction that diminished the privacy. Which the entrance at the silent side will highly provide a preferable private area in it.
- More enclosed at the side of the building will blocked the view from the pedestrian view. Only high windows could provided privacy by bringing sunlight inside the residential.
- The garden behind the house and between the neighborhood since it already enclosed by the one beside it.
- Placing staircase outside and lifting up the residential
(b) Increase the spatial experience of the house
- Glass increase the spatial depth extending to the outside
- Cubic glazing provides a wide range angle to increase view angle
- Glazing at the corner and the Cubic glazing offer farther view to outside since it is not a directly increase both privacy and spatial occurrency
Relationship between the built area of the landscape
- Since Frank Gehry Residential was built in Los Angles. This is the first and foremost state that promoted the individual rights and liberties, the city reflect omnipresence. Even architecture in LA are built in the constant motion. Without ordinarily support by context, Frank building integrated the city with mechanisms and interpreted as reflection on how the building in LA.
Structural System of the House
- After deconstructed the residential, only beams, columns and post that construction materials are being left due to Gehry need to feel the physicality of the reality of the construction.
- Building surface like corrugated aluminium facade, plywood those materials are being left since Gehry comprehend the construction materials is fall beyond better than the finished apartment.
Circulation strategy of the house
New & Existing
Panel Drawings
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