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Anna Lineburger Design 2 Porfolio Spring 2022 Professor Carol Hermann

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Analytical Investigations

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Concept and Color

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Precedent + Invention, Structure + Site

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Visionary Designers

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Techtonic Maquette

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Semester Reflection

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Analytical Investigations

Grace Garlin and Anna Lineburger

Project 1 aimed to analyze and

Diagrams

Site Plan and Section

understand a case study house.

The Rural House is a 21st-century house in Spain designed by RCR Architects. Its materials are corten steel and plate glass, giving the houe an old appearance despite its recent construction. The house is embedded in a hill and thus partially underground.

Due to Spain's temperate climate, there is a transitional relationship from inside to outside, often created through sliding glass walls. Beyond the back of the house is a pool, several patios, and gardens that reflect the client's career as a chef. RCR Architects considered the client's family when designing the home, as shown by separating the bedrooms to opposite ends of the home.

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Elevations

The house's structure

is rectilinear and consists of a modular repetition of long, narrow boxes, as seen in both plan and elevation view. Narrow hallways of varying heights connect these boxes and seperate the house's spaces without using interior walls. Differing elevations give privacy to bedroom spaces.

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Sections

Plan

The house contains built-in furniture. Storage spaces such as hallway cabinets allow the owners to access their possessions without taking away from the house's vacant feeling.

Other furniture like a built-in fireplace and dining room table tailor to the client's needs a chef.

A simplistic interior and floor-to-ceiling windows emphasize the house's outside views.

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Chipboard Study Model

Rural House Front View

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Both models attempt to represent the

Rural House with measured accuracy. The chipboard model helped us understand the best method of constructing the house.

Extra consideration was necessary for achieving varying floor levels without the site. The final model was constructed with basswood for the house and cardboard for the site. The cardboard site was necessary for understanding the house's relationship to

the land, including which parts were removed for outdoor spaces. Material thickness determined how to make the topographical grading. The outdoor spaces embedded into the landscape provide privacy. The integration of the house and outdoor spaces into the landscape creates a smooth transition between indoor and outdoor, which the temperate Spanish climate allows.

Basswood and Cardboard Model

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The model attempts

to replicate the lighting conditions in the Rural House. The house achieves open, bright spaces due to the large plate glass panels, and close, dark spaces from lack thereof. Implied glass in the model provides views from the front of the house into the outdoor spaces on the other side.

Model Interior

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Model Front

Rural House Interior

Rural House Front

The one-point perspective highlights the reflective quality of

the Rural House's interior. The corten steel reflects light onto the walls and floors and illuminates otherwise dark areas. The photo chosen shows the tunneling effect achieved by the uninterrupted hallway throughout the house. The two-point perspective focuses on the house's modularity and repeating structure. The modular rectangles are best seen from a front-facing, exterior perspective where the structures align vertically.

One-Point Perspective Drawing

Two-Point Perspective Drawing

Rural House Interior Perspective

Rural House Exterior Perspective

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Concept and Color Project 2 consists of abstracted

representations of the Rural House. The conceptual abstraction includes elements of reflection, vacancy, and embedded

Conceptual Abstraction

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quality. Red and brown respectively represent the exterior and interior tone of the corten steel. The blue shows the light coming through the large windows. The constructed perspective shows a view of the living room based on plans and sections of the Rural House.

Constructed One-Point Perspective

The model considers the

same three words: reflective, vacant, and embedded.

The mulch-filled plexiglass frame represents the home's embedded nature and relationship to the landscape.

Removable, wooden frames depict vacancy. The slatted walls convey the effect on interior lighting. Holes in the model's sides allow interior views and create a dark, tunneling feeling.

The plexiglass functions as reflective material parallel to the Rural House's interior as well as a transparent medium through which to see the mulch landscape. The model is physically and visually heavy to show the weighted feeling of the Rural House.

Abstracted Model Photos

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Precedent + Invention, Structure + Site Project 3 takes an undeveloped site and

proposes a path and several one-person cabins. The goal was to create a home that included elements of the Rural House and considered the site and path in its design.

Like the Rural House, the plot chosen was steep and allowed for the house's integration into the land. Site plans and sections provide context for the house's placement.

1/8" Scale Site Plan

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1/8" Scale Site Section

1/32" Scale Site Section

The diagrams communicate which

design principles were considered in the house. These experiential considerations were needed for finalizing the house's design, as shown in the orthographic drawings. Varying floor levels, doubleheight spaces, and large glass windows draw from the Rural House. Modular structure, seen in plan and section, are structurally correlated to the Rural House.

Diagrams

Orthographic Drawings

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The exploded axonometric communicates the house's

layout through separated floors and shading. While the axonometric is a technical representation, the two-point perspective conveys a real-life view. The angle and surrounding landscape depict the house if one were to stand in front of it.

Exploded Axonometric

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2 Point Perspective

The basswood and carboard model

depict the house and its relationship to the site. The carboard site represents the landscape at 1/4" scale. Some of the existing landscape was altered to include a path, patio space, and a detention pond to control water flow toward the house. The house's placement influenced how light was considered. Slatted walls let in light to the otherwise dark portions of the house, while a roof overhang limits the amount of southern sunlight let into the house's front.

Several pieces of the model are removable to communicate all levels of the house.

Basswood and Cardboard Model Photos

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Interior photos convey the experience of being

inside the home. Several sets of stairs throughout the house show circulation and the variety of interior spaces created. The slatted walls let adequate light into the space without losing the privacy of solid walls. Interior furniture shows the house's scale and each space's use.

The furniture also parallels the Rural House's built-ins, used to create a clean, empty space.

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Interior Model Photos

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Techtonic Maquette This project's goal was to create a small

home incrementally. The house has two stories with a lower entrance in the front and an upper entrance in the back. The upper story is recessed to make space for a balcony.

Symmetry was created on the house's front face with the shape and placement of doors and windows. The roof is flat in the back

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Techtonic Maquette Photos

to allow enough living space in the upper story, but it is slanted in the front to create a cozy environment for private spaces. The drawings show its relationship to the site regarding the land's symmetry and accessibility to the two entrances. Stairs along the wall provide access to the upper level apart from the exterior entrance. Trees on the site attempt to show the scale of the house and surrounding topography.

Techtonic Maquette Drawings

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Visionary Designers

Jenna Sullivan and Anna Lineburger

This Visionary Designers project

studied Edmund Bacon, an urban planner who designed in Philadephia throughout the 20th century. The project explains the impact of Bacon, both good and bad. Drawings and models of his ideas exemplify his way of communicating visually. The simplicity of grayscale drawings and models are mimicked in the presentation. The study was more about the societal impact of Bacon's work than the design itself. Since many of his projects are nearby, the community impact was especially important. Though Bacon's work was essential to Philadelphia's urban design in the 20th century, it was necessary to critically analyze the impact of his projects.

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Semester Reflection Throughout the semester, I learned how to develop and evolve ideas through iterations.

This process was sometimes tedious when I made many versions of a drawing. Other times, like during the charette, I did not have time to consider every decision. Both methods were beneficial to understanding the abstraction and subsequent rebuilding required to make finalized designs.

Understanding space during this semester changed my view of architecture. Last semester primarily involved design principles and techniques of drafting and model making.

This semester used those skills to develop scale and understand the meaning of making a space. After learning design principles, I had more knowledge of the components necessary to create good design. It was not until I designed a house that I realized the challenge of balancing multiple aspects. After designing the cabin, I better understood how influential architecture could be in creating an experience. Despite the amount of thought and intent that I put into my cabin, there were many considerations that I had overlooked. Receiving feedback helped me to understand how to create a better experience in my design.

I realized the importance of feedback during the semester. Desk critics and discussions with peers gave an outside perspective of my work and insight I had not considered. Last semester, I relied primarily on my thought process to develop ideas. This limited potential improvements that outside feedback could have provided. I have found that talking to others about my work and vice versa is a revision process that I will take into the future as I continue my understanding of architecture.

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