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Architecture Communications
Precedent study
The aim of the module was to understand the different types of design proposals such as plan, elevation, section, Axonometric, diagrams and modelling; to communicate with the people about a particular deign or concept for a particular space.
Tadao Ando
Azuma House
The building to be studied in depth was Tadao Ando's Azuma house, it was selected from 12 iconic buildings and dwellings from 19th and 20th century.
Each one of them were distributed in 12 groups and was asked to do a study on them.
Azuma house in Sumiyoshi, Japan; is one of the earliest works of the self-taught architect Tadao Ando, where the house is split into a spaces devoted to daily life.
On the ground floor are located the living room and a kitchen, separated by the central outside courtyard and the staircase that leads to the upper floor, where the two bedrooms are joined by a walkway. The central uncovered area is the only source of natural light throughout the house.
On the top floor, the children’s rooms on one side face the master bedroom on the other side of the central courtyard, which is reached by a bridge.
The building looks like a concrete box from outside.
Its concepts is about two square blocks are connected with a bridge under a rectangular block or cuboid.
The presence of a door suggests the use of this box.
The Deign proposal requirements consist of all the communications used to communicate a design in architecture.
Diagram
Key-plan
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Terrace plan
Section x 4
Elevation x 3
Axonometric
Isometric
Modelling
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Design
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A3 Portfolio(Sketchbook)
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It includes: -
1:20 scale Orthographic Bedroom Plan
1:20 scale Orthographic Section
A hand drawn A3 diagrammatic study of a journey from home to the Quayside.