Cabinetto - Lumie Okado (Design Studio 1.1)

DRAWING ON THE ORDINARY LUMIE OKADO

CONTENTS • BRIEF

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• PICTORIAL SPACE

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• CONCEPT PRECEDENTS

CONCEPTUAL MODELS 1:20 MODEL 3D PERSPECTIVE VIEWS SUSTAINABILITY

• DRAWINGS 1:50 EXPLODED ISOMETRIC

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1:20 PLAN + 1.20m 1:20 ELEVATIONS 1:20 SECTIONS

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• REFERENCES

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BRIEF

Architects and artists have proven how space is essential to the client’s experience. When entering a building or analysing a painting, one can notice how perspective is capable of emphasising what we feel.

Courtyard in Delft at Evening: A Woman Spinning

For this project, we are asked to design a Cabinetto - a room in a room - conveying the

Pieter de Hooch, c. 1657 - 1660

emotions depicted in a selected painting. In Courtyard in Delft at Evening: A Woman Spinning, Pieter de Hooch plays with dichotomies by illustrating two different social classes. While the house at the back is high, detailed with glazed windows, the one at the front looks unfinished. One can imagine it is the servants’ house made with what was left from the construction of the masters’ house at the back.

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PICTORIAL SPACE

1:100 PLAN

1:100 SIDE ELEVATION

1:100 FRONT ELEVATION

Taking the woman standing up as a reference, estimating her height as 1.70m, I managed to reimagine the courtyard from the painting. Using Sketchup, I also explored different materials to convey the contrast between the masters’ and the servants’ residential places.

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PRECEDENTS

Fig. 3:

Initial Idea, Playing with Shadows

Fig. 2:

Initial Idea, Exploring Curves

Fig. 1:

Nanchang Nanchang Installation by Kengo Kuma (2013)

This project was majorly inspired by exchange opportunities I have had recently.

Conversations on Kengo Kuma during a group tutorial led me to admire his Nanchang Nanchang Bamboo Installation, from which the curved shape of what will be the masters’ path was inspired. These arcs are aligned properly and are very high. This gives visitors the opportunity to experience elegance, order and elevation. By rising the top of this path compared to the servants’ path, I made sure one could feel empowered - just like masters would feel when going to the church (also in the background of the painting).

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Fig. 5:

Wood Chip Barn, by AA Design + Make (2016)

Fig. 7:

Design Iteration using Wooden Sticks

A History and Theory lecture later raised my awareness on how we can use raw wood in the style of the Wood Chip Barn by AA Design + Make. I thus Fig. 6:

3D Scanned Timber ‘Fork’ used for the Wood Chip Barn Project by AA Design + Make

chose to use actual tree trunks and branches for the servants’ path. It would indeed fit my concept : while masters are prosperous enough to afford the higher quality of materials, servants are left with their raw versions.

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CONCEPTUAL MODELS

Fig. 9:

Fig. 10:

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Conceptual Model 1 Exploring two different materials and playing with heights.

Conceptual Model 2 Adding a wall to the previous conceptual model (Fig. 9) to explore shadows better.

Fig. 8:

Conceptual Sketch I believe architecture should be an emotional experience and that shadows, space and materials are tools that should be explored to do so. I explored all three for my Cabinetto.

Conceptual Model 3 Enclosing the Cabinetto forces both paths to meet, bringing social classes together. The walls, however, will be taken down as they limit visitors’ freedom in the Cabinetto (Fig. 12).

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Conceptual Model 4 Using raw material: some can afford manufactured materials while others have to cope with what is found in nature.

1:20 MODEL

Final Model - Left View

Final Model - Front View

Final Model - Right View

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3D PERSPECTIVE VIEWS

3D Internal View

3D External View

“De Hooch was a master of the depiction of architecture, of perspective and of the detail of objects and textures, but he was also a master of the perceptive portrayal of human relationships, so subtly revealed in this painting.”

- The National Gallery (Unknown)

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SUSTAINABILITY DIFFERENT MATERIALS DIFFERENT COLORS AND TEXTURES

Fig. 13:

Mahogany Timber Render

SAME LOCAL MATERIAL DIFFERENT COLORS AND TEXTURES

Fig. 14:

Chipboard Render

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(Raw) Scots Pine

Fig. 16:

Scots Pine Glulam Render

I initially focused on texture and colour: using expensive red Mahogany wood (Fig. 13) in contrast to cheap chipboard (Fig. 14) could have illustrated different economic situations.

But sustainability being a priority, I later chose a different point of view: using one local Fig. 17:

Sketch of Dowel Joints

material in two different ways. Scots Pine can be found locally as a raw material (Fig. 15) but also as manufactured glulam (Fig. 16). We can then drastically minimise overall CO2 emissions linked to the project construction.

Finally, using simple dowel joints (Fig. 17) means the cabinetto can be easily dismantled, recycled or transported to another museum.

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1:50 EXPLODED ISOMETRIC

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1:20 PLAN + 1.20m

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1:20 FRONT ELEVATION

IN THE GUILDHALL

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1:20 RIGHT ELEVATION

IN THE PUMP ROOMS

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1:20 BACK ELEVATION

IN THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS

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1:20 LEFT ELEVATION IN THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM

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1:20 SECTION A

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1:20 SECTION B

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REFERENCES Bath’s Historic Venues, 2020. Guildhall [Online]. Available from: https://www.bathvenues.co.uk/venues/guildhall [Accessed 16 January 2020].

Eric Parry Architects, 2019. The Holburne Museum [Online]. Available from: http://www.ericparryarchitects.co.uk/projects/culture/holburne-museum-bath.html [Accessed 16 January 2020].

JOE, Unknown. The Joe Alphabet Quiz: Week 4 [Online]. Available from: https://www.joe.co.uk/life/the-joe-alphabet-quiz-week-4-2-165329 [Accessed 16 January 2020].

Kengo Kuma and Associates, KKaA, 2013. ナンチャンナンチャン (Nanchang Nanchang) [Online]. Available from: https://kkaa.co.jp/works/architecture/nangchang-nangchang/ [Accessed 27 November 2019].

Kuma, K., 2014. Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition - Sensing Spaces : Architecture Reimagined [Online]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4rx6oQOgY [Accessed 29 November 2019].

The National Gallery, Unknown. The Courtyard of a House in Delft, Pieter de Hooch [Online]. Available from: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pieter-dehooch-the-courtyard-of-a-house-in-delft [Accessed 28 November 2019].

The Roman Baths, 2020. Facilities [Online]. Available from: https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/facilities [Accessed 16 January 2020].

The Royal Collection Trust, Unknown. Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam 1629 - Amsterdam 1684), A Courtyard in Delft at Evening: a Woman spinning 1657 [Online]. Available from: https://www.rct.uk/collection/405331/a-courtyard-in-delft-at-evening-a-woman-spinning [Accessed 16 January 2020].

Wikimedia Commons, 2019. File:Pieter de Hooch - Courtyard in Delft at Evening- a Woman Spinning - Google Art Project.jpg [Online]. Available from: https://commons. wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_de_Hooch_-_Courtyard_in_Delft_at_Evening-_a_Woman_Spinning_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg [Accessed 11 December 2019].

Fig. 1: Dezeen, Howarth, D., 2013. Nangchang Nangchang bamboo installation by Kengo Kuma [Online]. Available from: https://www.dezeen.com/2013/09/06/telepathy-bamboo-installation-by-kengo-kuma/ [Accessed 11 December 2019].

Fig. 5: Timber Research And Development Association, TRADA, Unknown. Case Studies - Wood Chip Barn [Online]. Available from: https://www.trada.co.uk/case-studies/wood-chip-barn/ [Accessed 11 December 2019].

Fig. 6: Dezeen, Jessica Mairs, 2016. AA Design & Make students use a robotic arm to build a woodland barn [Online]. Available from: https://www.dezeen. com/2016/02/23/architectural-association-students-london-robotically-fabricated-barn-dorset-woodland/ [Accessed 11 December 2019].

Fig. 13: Mahogany, Inc., 2017. Three Uses for Mahogany Wood [Online]. Available from: http://www.mahoganyinc.com/blog/3-uses-for-mahogany-wood/ [Accessed 8 December 2019].

Fig. 14: 123RF, Unknown. Stock Photo - A wood chipboard as a background [Online]. Available from: https://www.123rf.com/photo_104385195_a-wood-chipboard-as-abackground.html [Accessed 8 December 2019].

Fig. 15: Speedtree, 2017. Scots Pine Species Pack [Online]. Available from ; https://store.speedtree.com/store/scots_pine_pack_cinema_v8/ [Accessed 2 December 2019].

Fig. 16: Bulow-Bennet Panneaux, 2018. Scots Pine [Online]. Available from : http://www.bulow-bennet.com/en/essence-pin-sylvestre-2/ [Accessed 11 December 2019].

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