Final Drawings

Poche - the daylight as a vehicle of filling up the 'void'

There are many ways to express the architecture in the poche drawing. I finally shaded my drawings based on the reason of that: In my exploration of this case, it's quite unique experience that the amount of columns make the boundary between the solid and the void in this case ambiguous to a degree. And semi-opening area like spaces under eaves and corridors is a critical element in this design, which not only protecting people from strong sunshine when walking through different internal spaces, but also connects the relative enclosed spaces to courtyards, the dark to the light, the negative to the positive, and the ‘full’ to the ‘empty’.

On my way to understand and present my understanding of the relationship between the solid and void in this project, I found a simple method to articulate it by the daylight. Like concretes or bricks can be filled in the solid, I used the daylight as a vehicle of filling up the ‘void’.

In my drawing of the plan, shadows that visualized the daylight indicated the arrangement of the ‘void’ space people living and walking through, on the other hand, the gradient of shadows show the interaction of the opening, the semi-opening and relative enclosed spaces.

As to the sectional plan, it’s different from the plan drawing that I used the bold lines with solid fill to illustrate the sectional structure. The shadow contributes two aspects: one is to show how light works on the spaces of different levels and the function of the inaccessible areas above the roof to keep overheating in the tropical zone; On the other hand, the sectional one added the description of the relationship of nature and human inhabitable spaces which I didn’t present in the plan drawing.

Parti - the most basic organizational principle that expresses the architecture design