Gathering References & Inspiration Per Your Project Brief | Lesson 03 — Transcript

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1. 0:00in lesson three we will focus on the
2. 0:01crucial stage of architectural projects
3. 0:04the project brief references and
4. 0:05inspiration we will Begin by exploring
5. 0:08the client in some detail understanding
6. 0:10the client's needs their lifestyle their
7. 0:12narrative and additionally we will
8. 0:14explore the building's location and
9. 0:16context and how this may shape the
10. 0:18Project's
11. 0:22narrative okay so in this lesson we're
12. 0:24going to answer the following questions
13. 0:26who is the client what is the client
14. 0:28brief what is the location and what is
15. 0:30the context around this project and
16. 0:32we're also going to do some precedent
17. 0:34research we're going to look up on
18. 0:36Pinterest and I'm going to create a mood
19. 0:37board in rayon and discuss through the
20. 0:40the various architectural features and
21. 0:42material palette that we're going to
22. 0:43explore throughout this project so let's
23. 0:45dive into the brief so the client is Mr
24. 0:48and Mrs Smith they're a retired couple
25. 0:50and the location of the plot is in a
26. 0:52coastal Cornwall town called PR Sands so
27. 0:56this is set within a natural valley and
28. 0:57hilly topography if you're not aware of
29. 1:00or familiar with Cornwall Cornwall is
30. 1:02absolutely beautiful PR sand is a great
31. 1:05kind of holiday destination in the UK uh
32. 1:08and they have acquired this plot which
33. 1:10is near pands and has beautiful views
34. 1:13towards the sea as you can see down here
35. 1:15they've got absolutely stunning views
36. 1:17over the landscape and Views towards the
37. 1:19sea which we're going to utilize in our
38. 1:22proposal so the plot is for a retired
39. 1:26couple who have worked and lived in
40. 1:27London for 30 years so I don't blame
41. 1:30them for wanting to move down to cor
42. 1:32more somewhere a bit more remote
43. 1:33somewhere a bit more quiet out in the
44. 1:35countryside I don't blame them I think
45. 1:37it's a good idea and the project
46. 1:38involves designing a two-story
47. 1:40three-bedroom home that integrates
48. 1:42seamlessly into the natural landscape
49. 1:44respecting the unique topography and
50. 1:45panoramic views of the sea as we've
51. 1:48discussed they want to explore a
52. 1:50contemporary architectural approach uh
53. 1:52with reference into Coral's historic
54. 1:54architectural Heritage and the material
55. 1:56pallet in Cornwall is very much kind of
56. 1:59stoned you got barns uh rustic materials
57. 2:02and kind of a lot of Timber which I will
58. 2:04discuss in a moment but the local
59. 2:06vernacular is very much kind of natural
60. 2:08stones Timbers cladding and we want to
61. 2:11explore those features in the proposal
62. 2:12to make sure that we're responding to
63. 2:14the local vernacular and we're not
64. 2:16designing something that's going to look
65. 2:17wildly out out of place we want to make
66. 2:20sure that we're responding to the local
67. 2:22context uh and the brief is to once
68. 2:24again build on those natural features of
69. 2:27stone Timber and they want expansive
70. 2:29glazing
71. 2:30uh to make sure that it's blending into
72. 2:32the surroundings it's making the most of
73. 2:34those natural views and the natural
74. 2:36landscape um but we're also going to
75. 2:38obviously apply a bit of a modern
76. 2:39contemporary approach uh with the kind
77. 2:42of material pette and how we're going to
78. 2:44play with the kind of uh the volumes and
79. 2:46the geometry and the architectural Lo
80. 2:49logic of the scheme the couple have also
81. 2:51required they have some room
82. 2:53requirements so the first one is a open
83. 2:56plan kitchen living and dining 70 square
84. 2:58m so that is quite a significant ific
85. 3:00area for an open plan space so that
86. 3:03would be uh something that we can embed
87. 3:06into the design of course they want a
88. 3:08utility cupboard they want a garage to
89. 3:10store both of their cars they want an
90. 3:12office space uh in case they want to do
91. 3:14any admin work or uh whatever you do
92. 3:18when you're retired obviously want a a
93. 3:20toilet a master bedroom which is going
94. 3:22to be a sign significant feature of the
95. 3:24project an on suite and then obviously
96. 3:27they want two bedrooms and a shared
97. 3:29bathroom
98. 3:30so there're the required uh the kind of
99. 3:32room requirements which we'll go into a
100. 3:34bit more detail when we come across to
101. 3:37the later lessons when we talk about
102. 3:38massing and Zoning um but this gives us
103. 3:41a good indication of the kind of scale
104. 3:42and the size of these spaces and the
105. 3:45plot that we're working with some of the
106. 3:46local architectural features that I've
107. 3:48picked up on here that I wanted to
108. 3:49discuss and that I thought were
109. 3:51interesting to explore and respond to
110. 3:54First obviously the cormel stone which
111. 3:56is a very famous material in cormel
112. 3:59hence Coral Stone which is a stone that
113. 4:02we want to kind of utilize and explore
114. 4:05um in our proposal Barnes are very
115. 4:07prominent architecture feature in Coral
116. 4:11so that is something that we can kind of
117. 4:12lean into we can maybe do a kind of more
118. 4:15modern interpretation a contemporary
119. 4:17interpretation of a barn and then
120. 4:19finally there was this little cottage
121. 4:20that I found which I thought was really
122. 4:22interesting to indicate that there are
123. 4:24actually some quite modern designs in
124. 4:26the area although we're probably not
125. 4:28going to do something as modern as this
126. 4:31um but it's interesting to show that uh
127. 4:33they've got some some quite cool
128. 4:35architecture in PR Sands this very much
129. 4:37looks like it should be in grease or
130. 4:39something uh with the white concrete
131. 4:41it's probably painted stone or something
132. 4:44um yeah so there the three kind of local
133. 4:47vernaculars um and the next thing we're
134. 4:49going to explore are references and
135. 4:51we're going to dive into Pinterest very
136. 4:53quickly and we're going to put together
137. 4:54a mood board discussing these features
138. 4:57and materiality that we have discussed
139. 4:59in terms of the stone in terms of Timber
140. 5:02and see how we can maybe find some
141. 5:04examples of of more modern
142. 5:07interpretation of Barnes and and how
143. 5:09they play with materiality so diving
144. 5:11into Pinterest I have pinned some items
145. 5:14that I think are useful and relevant and
146. 5:17some architecture features that I think
147. 5:19we should explore in the design and I'm
148. 5:21going to very quickly show you how I can
149. 5:23drop this into rayon and start putting
150. 5:26together a mood board so in rayon in our
151. 5:29canvas I'm going to come over to the
152. 5:30left hand side here click the menu tab
153. 5:32which is the three lines import image
154. 5:35and I'm just going to go over
155. 5:37to my precedents select them open and
156. 5:42what it's going to do is it's going to
157. 5:43drop straight into place and you've got
158. 5:46obviously at the top you've got the kind
159. 5:48of transform tools uh so we can move it
160. 5:52we can drag it over to here obviously we
161. 5:54want it to be a bit smaller so we're
162. 5:56going to drag that down and one thing
163. 5:59you can do is you can double click into
164. 6:02the image and you can start cropping it
165. 6:03to all kinds of shapes which I think is
166. 6:06quite a nice tool um but what I'm going
167. 6:08to do is I'm just going to drop a couple
168. 6:09images together and I'm going to talk
169. 6:12through some of the key architectural
170. 6:14features that we want to explore and as
171. 6:16I do this you can also see that the
172. 6:19snapping tool is activated so you got so
173. 6:22you can make a nice mood board where
174. 6:25things are snapping to one another okay
175. 6:27so now we've dropped some of these
176. 6:29images in and we've got a bit of a mood
177. 6:31ball going I'm just going to highlight
178. 6:34uh with some text so down here at the
179. 6:36bottom you can select the text tool I'm
180. 6:38just going to start annotating some of
181. 6:40these drawings and talking through some
182. 6:41of the key features that I think uh
183. 6:44would be useful to use and uh reference
184. 6:47as we're designing the scheme so with
185. 6:49this first one I think it's uh uh the
186. 6:52interesting thing here is the very
187. 6:53simple geometry um with uh the kind of
188. 6:57obviously the pitched roof and you've
189. 6:58got the timber contrasting with the
190. 7:00stone but also having a kind of similar
191. 7:02color palette you've got that warm
192. 7:04rustic feel and when you add your text
193. 7:07you can click done and as you can see
194. 7:09it's coming at one to one so it's coming
195. 7:11very small but on this right side we can
196. 7:13scale that up to 10
197. 7:16mil maybe a bit bigger let's do 20 mil
198. 7:19and that will scale the tag up this next
199. 7:22one I think is also very similar I think
200. 7:25the stone is a little bit too heavy I'm
201. 7:27not so sure on the gray um I don't think
202. 7:29this would respond very well to the kind
203. 7:32of local color and texture of cormal
204. 7:36however I like the the horizontal
205. 7:38language of the windows and the geometry
206. 7:40slicing through the building and you can
207. 7:43clearly see here that there are some
208. 7:44expansive views slicing through the
209. 7:46building with uh lots of glazing and I
210. 7:50think this is a really nice way of kind
211. 7:52of integrating the design through
212. 7:54glazing through openings into the
213. 7:56surrounding landscape now this one is
214. 7:58kind of similar to the first one in that
215. 8:00it's a very simple geometry uh but I
216. 8:03think the addition of the Timber slats
217. 8:05work really well here because you've got
218. 8:07that really nice vertical element and
219. 8:09you've got that vertical kind of floor
220. 8:11to ceiling window obviously not quite
221. 8:13ceiling uh that pokes into the geometry
222. 8:16and you've got a really nice effect with
223. 8:18the Shadow and with the pitch roof so we
224. 8:20like the
225. 8:22vertical
226. 8:24Timber and even the dark Timber looks
227. 8:26quite nice quite like the black
228. 8:30we then got this one down here which I
229. 8:31think is arguably my favorite in that
230. 8:33it's just a really Sleek horizontal
231. 8:36element through the lscape it almost
232. 8:38looks like it's kind of floating and
233. 8:40working with the views of the landscape
234. 8:41it's working with the horizontal kind of
235. 8:44horizon of the sea and I think it works
236. 8:47really well and as you can see here very
237. 8:49similar to one the one above they've got
238. 8:51windows that are penetrating all the way
239. 8:53through the building so you get that
240. 8:54feeling of when the doors are open it
241. 8:57feels like you are part of that
242. 8:58environment and that you're kind of
243. 9:00invited into the landscape and then this
244. 9:02one here I think is just a case of a
245. 9:03really simple MK that I sat on top of
246. 9:06one another embedded into the landscape
247. 9:08as you can see here this is quite a
248. 9:10steep slope down and they're simply just
249. 9:13stepping the massing down which I think
250. 9:14is just a really successful way of doing
251. 9:16it entering the building at one level
252. 9:18and making your way down uh the scheme
253. 9:20down the property as you go through the
254. 9:23building and then finally this one here
255. 9:24I think is just a really
256. 9:26nice kind of interesting geometry very
257. 9:30simple masses that are very clear uh the
258. 9:33kind of volumes are very much defined so
259. 9:36you very much have this clear language
260. 9:38of these kind of volumes that are sat on
261. 9:42top of one
262. 9:43another so youve almost got these three
263. 9:47blocks and I think it's a really nice
264. 9:49just simple way of stacking the geometry
265. 9:51and creating spaces of closure and
266. 9:54openings and having this tiered effect
267. 9:56in the elevation and this section at the
268. 9:58end here is just very much demonstrating
269. 10:00alternative ways of how we can utilize
270. 10:02the landscape and work with the
271. 10:03landscape this one here very much is
272. 10:05embedding the mass into the landscape so
273. 10:07it's kind of hidden uh this one is
274. 10:10poking out with elements hidden and this
275. 10:12bottom one here is showing how you could
276. 10:14use maybe some indoor and outdoor
277. 10:16features using the landscape as part of
278. 10:19the interior and extern external space
279. 10:22um and they're just some really useful
280. 10:24uh kind of examples of embedding uh the
281. 10:27design into the landscape so this is our
282. 10:28mood boy picking up on some of the key
283. 10:30features uh that I believe are going to
284. 10:32be um kind of good references moving
285. 10:35forward for the scheme and some of the
286. 10:37languages that we want to pick up on in
287. 10:39response to the brief obviously
288. 10:40responding to the local vernacular of
289. 10:42the cormal stone the kind of barn feel
290. 10:45of cormal maximizing views over the
291. 10:48landscape and this gives us a good basis
292. 10:51moving forward now into understanding
293. 10:53the site and the site conditions