The drawings and models for the homes below were recently on exhibit in Los Angeles at the MOCA. The exhibit entitled Skin and Bones is now a traveling exhibit that draws ties between the concepts of fashion and architecture or in 2502 terms surface and structure. You should be working on your progressive concept diagrams (finishing those for final print), plans, and sections. Please refer to the presentation at the right of this page to get a feel on how to draw nice diagrammatic plans as well as sections.
Curtan Wall House, Shigeru Ban, 1995,
Playing without the solidity of walls, Ban exhibits a softer relationship between home and shelter. Open to the elements for 6 months out of the year, this house is free of hard boundaries. For the winter months the house has a second layer of glass that is hidden in the back walls of the house, this layer can be slid out and secured at the edge corner.
Naked House, Shigeru Ban, 2000
The exterior of this house is composed of two sheets of corrugated fiber-reinforced plastics and the inner walls are made of a nylon fabric. Both are mounted on wooden stud frames and sit in parallel. In between these two layers are attached clear plastic bags, carefully stuffed with strings of foamed polyethylene for insulation. See, anything is possible. The private sectors of the home are situated in the movable modules making the floor plan totally open.
John Hejduk, Wall House 2, 2002
This house was not in the exhibit and on the contrary to the other two examples on this post this house is about walls. The concrete wall divides the public from the private. The area to the right of the second image is the public and the three sectioned rooms on the left are the private.
This building was built after his death in 2000.
