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MOOLOOMBA HOUSE - ANDRESEN O'GORMAN
Third Year | Semester 1 | 2017
Architectural Fabrication -
Tutor: Barbara Busina
THE BRIEF:
A case study of Andresen O'Gorman's Mooloomba House, a tectonic holiday house, which deconstructed the main design strategies, through the creation of a documentation set, the extraction of parti diagrams and the analogous model making.
THE SITE:
Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. Sub-tropical climate with high humidity.
THE DESIGN:
- to intensify the presence of the landscape and to integrate the natural surroundings, e.g. the central courtyard includes the pre-existing grove of banksia + ferns
- to continue exploring the expressive capacity of hardwood in terms of its material properties, geometry + metaphoric capabilities
- to create a sense of harmony within the entire project, such that all components must fit together in order to make a cohesive whole
- space is characteristed by constructional form; the assemblage of members are used to generate specific emotions, e.g. continuous surface equates a cave
- opportunity of creating space with 'transparencies' inherent in tectonic form
SOFTWARE/SKILLS USED:
- AutoCAD
- Photoshop
- Physical Model Making