ASSIGNMENT 2 (BRIEF)

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava was born on the 28 of July 1951 in Spain, he is a Spanish architect. Santiago studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia for his architectural degree with a post-graduate course in urbanism. Calatrava is a family man he has 3 sons who tow of them are engineers and the other one is doing law. Calatrava style is bridging the division between structural engineering and architecture his style is driving by studies of the human body and the natural world. Santiago is also a prolific sculptor and painter and this is shown in most of Calatrava work.

for this project i will aim to suit Calatrava work with big spans and styles that are driving by the human body and the natural world, i will have to focuss on the visual of the home as i will want it to be a sculptor. below are the spaces and design of the house.

• building has to have a touch of Spain, in saying this i mean that have the vibe or the architecture of Spain
• building needs to have 4 or more bedrooms one of them to be a master with ensuite
• A glass and steel structure
• a building that stands out from the rest with big spans 
• open kitchen plan 
• 3-4 bathrooms
• study or guest room 
• open living dinning and family room
• laundry 
• double lock up garage 
• a room just for Calatrava work, his designs, painting and sculptor ( work shop )

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Experiment 1 Submission

for my first experiment we had to create a building that we had to use 3 primitives and a list of rooms that we had include in our house. we had to also have no more then 250m2 in floor space and a maximum of 900m3 in volume. for my primitives i chose a pyramid, box and a cylinder this was a bit of a challenge as only one of these primitive are to be parallel to the floor. i wanted my building to be different and a stand out i wanted to keep it architectural.

once we had our final model and form of our building we then had do develop it and present a section, floor plans elevations etc and we had to show them on a presentation board i wanted to keep the presentation board as simple as i could so you can see the architecture in the building. below is my final submission for this experiment.

In saying all this i am very pleased in the final result of my building as this was quiet a challenge in having to stick to the requirements but it was also good as it helped me learn how it is in the industry and how it is very important to stink to guide lines. I would also like to say it helped me with my skills in using sketch-up and understand the program more.

below is the animation that i created in sketch-up 

click here for Sketch-up model 

click here for PDF