I had discovered interior designer Axel Vervoordt on Architectural Digest. The image below is the exact style of how the building will be made and designed for Edmund and C.S Lewis. The materials I will be using throughout the building will be wood. Also using rugs and thick curtains for a very traditional style.
For phase 2 of the project, I would be opening up the side wall of the meditation room, and turning it into a courtyard. Because it would be all outdoors, I have put in a corridor along the side of the building.
This will also help achieve more light reaching deeper into the building, Which would also be good to help the plants in the room grow. There will also be windows put in the living room wall. Here are some diagrams of the ventilation in the building. The main ventilation strategy will be single sided ventilation, The main source of fresh air into the building will come from the courtyard. These are my final plans for phase 1 , I have decided to put the rooms in which Edmund and C.S Lewis will use together at the front then have a big conservatory where they can relax. And towards the back will be their bedrooms. From these plans I have drawn up noise, movement and lighting diagrams, showing how the positioning of the windows has effected the building and also how the clients will use the space. Above are different ideas I had for the courtyard space. The first plan was to put in a glass box, and having the walkway around it. The second was to have a walkway just along the far side of the building , And in the third and fourth plan, I was going to have the courtyard open, with a spiral stairs in the corner going up to a high platform.
For more precedent studies I found looking at C.S Lewis's Kilns House, very useful. This helped me understand C.S Lewis's style and gave me inspiration when creating a living space for him.
John Russell Pope was commissioned to turn the open courtyard of the Frick residence into an enclosed Garden Court, after his proposal. The courtyard was transformed into a garden with marble Ionic pillars, palm trees, plants, fountain inside a sunken pool, all housed under a glass arched roof. The twin Ionic pillars and the smooth symmetrical planting beds were to be Popes inspiration for his later work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. References
http://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/archivedsite/exhibitions/75th/garden.htm http://www.frick.org/collection/gardens/garden_court#sthash.JrpIHGtZ.dpuf |
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