Final+Project

=Final Project=

House for an artist!


The final project for our course DA1312 (Design I) at the Simón Bolívar University, was to create a house mainly for an artist with a small family (5 people). Each student decided what artist will used, then with our knowledge taken from all different classes and the last projects of the course, we need to decide how the house could look like, and which are the needs the clients have.  First I did some research about the artist. I choose a photographer, because I really like photography and someday I will like to take a course or work in this area. Then, with an idea of all the spaces the person may need (a dark room to work with the photos films, a studio or atelier, and finally a gallery to show his work), I started studying the context or the place where the house will be. This context is a place located in the Municipio Baruta, close to the Samanes mall and to a park. The place where we were supposed to build the house it’s very big; the size is approximately 2000 m², with a very strong slope, a beautiful view of the city and an easy connection with the street and the house. With all this facts to consider, I decided to take an important part of the context to stand out. Then I separated in two strongest spaces the house. The private and the social part, connected to the photographer area, with is the only part of the house that has two floors. The rest of the house I decided that is was going to have just one floor, with an exterior part that plays with the unevenness. The main idea of the house is to create a place with each part of the house gave a different view and of course to create the most able area for the photographer to take pictures. I wanted to introduce continuity to the roof, but keep clear the spaces and their function.

At this level, we also have to start consider the structure of the building, it has to be clear and separate with modules. The important idea of this course is that each student has to create a clear idea of the proportion or the dimensions that each space needs. For example, the bathroom doesn’t need the same space that a living room or a bedroom needs. This could be obvious for many people, but I think that most of the students that are taking this course, including me, have some or lots of problems when we start to incorporated furniture to the house. Functional and beautiful are the key words for an architect. The idea is to create spaces that became unique; also to help organize the place and fit or works only to the context with it was built for. Architects design structures to meet human needs. Structures can be assembled with sticks and stones or computer software and hardware, but the role of the architect remains the same. Architecture is “an instrument whose central function is to intervene in man’s favor” James M. Fitch, 1972

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Luisana Hernandez

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