Project 2: Future House

 

In this final project, students will be employing multiple rule shape grammar to produce new architectural designs from their own set of rules or rules derived from an existing building which inspires them. Each student needs to recall and creatively apply all the knowledge that they have acquired from lectures and exercises to produce a good grammar. The shape grammar will allow students to create multiple design alternatives of the future house and subsequently choose the best design to be further detailed.   

 

The minimum space requirements for the house that students need to produce are as follows:

i) 5 bedrooms

ii) 6 bathrooms (including powder room)

iii) 2 living rooms (formal living and family area)

iv) 2 dining rooms (formal and family dining)

v) 2 kitchen (dry and wet kitchen) vi) Other rooms, i.e.: study, prayer, theatre, music, etc.  

vii) Supporting spaces, i.e. store room, porches, garages, terraces, etc.  

The first step in this project would be the establishment of multiple shape rules (at least 4 rules) for the grammar. The rules should be divided into two categories; i) rules to create the basic form of the house and ii) the ornamenting rules to further elaborate the basic form i.e.: adding roofs, balconies, porches, curve walls, windows and doors, etc. Then, produce a minimum of five designs using the rules that have been established without showing the development process.   

Next, choose one of the design alternatives to be finalised. The development process of the chosen design need to be shown however it does not have to include all the rules applied one by one but can be simplified by grouping several rules together in each development stage. Then, students are required to produce all floor plans as well as a minimum of three renderings of the final design in 3D where one of it should be superimposed with an imaginary site.