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Stage 1-Case Study
Stage 1-Case Study
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The one-story house has a 32'x56' open floor plan enclosed in 18-feet-wide floor-to-ceiling sheets of glass between black steel piers and stock H-beams that anchored the glass in place. The interior of the Glass House is completely exposed to the outdoors except for the a cylinder brick structure with the entrance to the bathroom on one side and a fireplace on the other side. The floor-to-ceiling height is ten and a half feet and the brick cylinder structure protrudes from the top .The only other divisions in the house besides the bathroom are discreetly done with low cabinets and bookshelves, making the house a single open room. This provides ventilation from all four sides flowing through the house as well as ample lighting.
The one-story house has a 32'x56' open floor plan enclosed in 18-feet-wide floor-to-ceiling sheets of glass between black steel piers and stock H-beams that anchored the glass in place. The interior of the Glass House is completely exposed to the outdoors except for the a cylinder brick structure with the entrance to the bathroom on one side and a fireplace on the other side. The floor-to-ceiling height is ten and a half feet and the brick cylinder structure protrudes from the top .The only other divisions in the house besides the bathroom are discreetly done with low cabinets and bookshelves, making the house a single open room. This provides ventilation from all four sides flowing through the house as well as ample lighting.
Plan and Elevation of The Glass House
1.It shows the 4 different spaces created without using walls(living room and dinning area, bathroom, kitchen , bedroom).
2.It shows the ventilation of air through the four openings at the four direction of the house.
3.It shows the entrances of the house from different directions.
4.It shows the position of the H beams that support the glass sheets to create a transparent wall for the house
Spatial distribution
Spatial distribution
The spatial distribution of the house into 4 basic sections :-
1.living room and dinning room
2.bathroom
3.kitchen
4.bedroom
These distribution are made using the book shelves, the kitchen platform and a cylinder that extends above the roof
The Effect of Transparency
The Effect of Transparency
The diagrams above focus on the effect of transparency produced by the glass walls used in the making of the outer structure of the building.
The first diagram focuses on the decreasing transparency on layering multiple layers of glass and so the architect uses on single layer of glass for maximum transparency and make it easier for the viewers to look at the surrounding.
The second diagram shows transparency where one can view the inner parts of the house easily from the outside, therefore having no privacy and clear distinction between the inside and the outside.
The third diagram also shows transparency of glass through the concept of light and shadow.
Glass Walls
Glass Walls
The diagram shows the fixing of glass sheets between black steel piers and stock H-beams that anchored the glass in place . It also describes the type of glass used and its properties along with the thickness.
The diagram on the right shows the distortion produced by different thicknesses of glass, thus giving a reason behind the use of specific thickness of glass being used by the architect to make the glass walls
Golden Ratio
Golden Ratio
To study the geometry of the house I divided the large rectangular structure into smaller rectangles using the golden ratio(1.618) which further helped me to study the position of the main interior elements of the house that help to the divide the entire space into individual sections
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