Drawing from different forms of storytelling including illustration, character design, and creative writing, this project is intended to become a design for a multigenerational communal housing development. Using the Chinese province of Henan as a base for a science-fiction world set in an alternate history timeline where humans coexist with an extraterrestrial life in a post-government society, the project aims to push the connection between architecture and narrative.
Below: Site and Character Drawings
Site Analysis Storyboard
Characters who are the inhabitants of the house
Design
The inhabitants of this house are a multigenerational commune of three families who are craftspeople that run a guild. The design of the house is generated by kitbashing different forms, tectonics, ornaments, and motifs from different indigenous housing precedents. Three housing units sit on top of a workshop built into the ruins of an apartment building housing a woodshop, metalshop, and masonry shop. Two cores, one based on the metalshop chimney and one on a wind tower, help heat and cool the inhabiting spaces.
Below: Orthographics
Sections
Section Perspective
Diagrams + Drawings
Final Model
1/4" = 1', Wood, Concrete (Rockite), Cardboard, Chipboard, Pulpboard, MDF
Progress/Study Models
Field Model - Axon
Field Model - Elevation
Field Model - Detail
Study Model - Elevation
Study Model - Axon
Study Model - North Axon
Site Model
Site Model - Detail
Site Model - Detail
Process Work
Precedent Analysis + Existing Site Orthographics
