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Suitcase

Figure 1 Internal view when all partitions removed (Edge. 2011)

Figure 2 Night view of the house (edge. 2011)

Figure 3 Wash room under the floor (Edge. 2011)

Figure 4 Winter view (Edge. 2010)

Figure 5 Living area (Arcspace. 2007)

• Gary Cheng, a space architect in Hong Kong


• The Suitcase house is located in Shuiguan, China


• It is an experimental hotel accommodation, situated near the Great Wall of China.


• The spaces within can be adjustable and transform into different spaces within the same space.


• It has a North-South orientation that allow gentle sunlight into the structure.


• The partitions allow privacy and divide spaces effectively.


• Most windows in the house allow great views on the Great Wall.

Marika Alderton

Figure 1 Marika Alderton with walls opened(dhab. 2007)

Figure 2 Window detials view(dhab. 2007)

Figure 3 Marika Alderton floor Plan (Architecuturelist. 2009)

Figure 4 Internal view (Architecuturelist. 2009)

Figure 5 The house and the landspace(Architecuturelist. 2009)

• Glenn Murcutt is a Pritzka Award winner in 2002.


• This house is built for an aboriginal artist and her family.


• It was built in Eastern Arnhem Land , Northern Territory in 1994.


• The house open up on very side of the walls which allow maximum environment contact and catches breezes.


• It is built to resist wind in that area.


• It has space enough for local activity with and within the house.


• This building harmonized with the nature granting dweller the freedom contacting the environment and notice things happening around the house.

Semenanjung House development process

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Marika Alderton and Suitcase House

Marika Alderton
http://architecture.about.com/od/houses/ss/marikaalderton.htm

http://www.architecturemedia.com/aa/aaissue.php?issueid=199607&article=13&typeon=3

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http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/architecture/modernresidential/

http://www.jamestaylorassociates.com.au/cgi-bin/cart/cat.cgi?display=5hd2p96d90&br=Special%20Projects

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http://www.architecture.com.au/emailnews/national/Heritage/Marika_Residence_NT_amended%5B1%5D.pdf

http://www.jamestaylorassociates.com.au/cgi-bin/cart/cat.cgi?display=5hd2p96d90&br=Special%20Projects

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ihsuanw/ARCH211/1_2_ihsuanw.pdf

http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/2002/_downloads/2002_essay.pdf

http://riffraff.wikispaces.com/file/view/Murcutt.pdf

http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/~crisc/Arch140_11/Documents/Lectures/2010files/21_Passive%20Cooling_SS_2010_bw.pdf




Suitcase House
http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/2006/09/13/casa-tolo-alvaro-leite-siza/

http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/2006/09/13/casa-tolo-alvaro-leite-siza/

http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/gary-chang-reconfigurable-living-spaces-suitcase-house-hotel.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak&feature=player_embedded

http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?2136-Beijing-Suitcase-House-Gary-Chang-%28EdgeHK%29

http://www.archphoto.it/IMAGES/garychang/chang.htm

http://www.archphoto.it/IMAGES/garychang/changweb/FrameSet.htm

http://www.edge.hk.com/en/projects.php?cat1=14&id=137

http://www.communebythegreatwall.com/en/photo/default.asp?iClassID=87&DjjIntPcnt=3

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/China/Beijing/Suitcase%20House

http://www.ejmdesign.co.uksh_usage_chart.pdf

http://www.ejmdesign.co.uksh_usage_chart.pdf

http://nordic.mastercard.dev.biggroup.co.uk/assets/offers/09c4052f-8273-a6e8-eb25-00000f1574c0/HAVE%20A%20HOUSE%20PARTY%20ON%20THE%20GREAT%20WALL%20OF%20CHINA.pdf

Semenanjung House

Semenanjung House from Peninsula House

Client Analysis

The client, Sean Godsell, is a graduated with First Class Honours from University of Melbourne and obtained Master of Architectural Degree in RMIT University. (Sean Godsell. N.d) According to the design of Peninsula House, Godsell wanted a cabin designed with its features.

Site Analysis

With the trapezium site roughly sized 37,000mm on the South and 8,700mm on the West, cabin is to be built on this site. The client requested a living space, a working space, a reflection space, a dining space, a kitchen, a sleeping room and an ablating room. The limits to this cabin are maximum internal enclosed space of 75m2 and maximum building levels are 2 levels above the ground (levels can expend underground providing not exceed 75m2 enclosed internal space); covered external spaces are allowed within the boundary. The client demand that the cabin should have features of his design, the Peninsula House. Set back on this site is 2,500mm for North and West, 1,000mm for South and 10,000mm for East. With these measurements, the site will be a long rectangular shape of 24.5m x 5.2m utilizable space. This site is almost adjacent with the North point with the width facing South and East while length on North and South. East direction is Victoria Park Road, which heaviest traffics and pedestrians activities occur every day, has a green hill with some moderately tall trees aligned by the pedestrian path together with street lights between them randomly. The sloppiness and trees of this hill are able to shade the site during the late afternoon yearly. Cars are parked on both side of the two ways road. This direction will be the busiest or noisiest direction of the site. On the South side are a series of townhouses with Maidstone Street, the road nearest to the site, between them and Three big trees. These trees are just next to the site providing comfortable shades during sunny time. With Maidstone road providing access for the Condominium on the North, South will be the second busiest direction of the site; with speed limited traffics causing noises to the site greatly , especially during early in the morning and after working hours on the week days and incoherently during the weekends. There is also a pedestrian path situated between the condominium and the site. Kulgun Park on the North is a green field designed for public to use. This field has distanced Carraway Street, second busiest street on nearest to the site, but the pedestrian path is next to the site. A distance of this direction is a piece of land under development. With the site surrounding environment briefed, next will the sun path, breeze and potential applicable issues discussed. The sun path during the summer will be pouring heat onto the site from a higher angles starting around 6a.m till before 5.00p.m, with hottest in mid-day, as the condominium blocks the rest of the sunlight. During winter, the angle of the sun is lower but the period is shorter, from 7a.m till 5p.m, providing the condominium will block the sunlight from around 4.30 p.m. The equinox path will be shining on the site from around 6a.m till approximately 6p.m.

Architype

The house presented will be a mimic in concepts, styles and materials used on Peninsula House. This building, named Semenanjung House, is a building sized 73m2 made of Stiff Jarrah timber on the outer layer of the house and the inner layer is made of glass and steel. With the front facing West, the direction to the condominium, this house will isolate common spaces from private spaces completely by levels, with the private spaces on the upper level and common spaces on the lower level. Common spaces will be kitchen, dining area and living room whilst private spaces are bed room, reflection room, working room and bath room. Semenanjung House inherits a similar outer layer with Peninsula House, being the timber slates providing effects on natural light. Underneath this timber box is a steel box which seemingly hanging in the air, with enclosed private rooms inside, with it only reinforced by the walls of the stairs and steel load-bearing footings on each side of the cabin. Lower open spaces are covered with curtain walls with the West curtain wall flexibly opened or closed. Stairs to upper level is fitted with a door. The opened space on West is an outdoor living room, with the kitchen and dining room linked, roofed by the upper level structure and series of slats on both longitude sides. The back ground will be an indoor semi-Zen garden with decorative rock path journeying to the grass ground facing Victoria Road Street. Semenanjung House uses the Japanese style of space within space to craft this shape; the European style of fascinatingly exposed living room connectable to the subtle cave-like spaces; and Anglo-India unique style of climate controlling veranda.

Environmental Filter

With orientation of each room well places, these spaces are exposed to the gentle sunlight throughout the year. The height of the windows suitably allowing these lines of lights into the space lined orderly and moves according to the position of the sun; being so which also function as a tool to tell time. From the outside, walking pedestrians can vaguely look into the spaces inside while they are noticeable from the inside. The bed room is designed facing the west to avoid noises from the East. The bed room window on the West is intended wider in width but short in height and located higher from usual sill height. Being the reason is to allow some Eastern sunlight to bounce into the room through the glasses of the condominium while facing West. The timber slats are offset around 1m exceed the room to provide privacy for the dweller from the condominium residents while allowing sunlight into the room. The lower level space is designed only covered by the timber slats to allow as much wind flow into the space bringing fresh air into the house.

Activity Container

With the dining room, Kitchen and Living room connected, this space designed to allow people in the space to perform activities effectively and near; such as serving the food after cooking directly on the table. The garden at the back of the building is a Semi-Zen garden with a rock path linking to the pedestrian path. This garden is design with heavier Zen feature in the house and less outward.

Delightful Experience

The semi-Zen garden merges the environment with the house slowly, using the rock path to draw the people into the house. All private spaces on the upper level are completely isolated from the public with a stair. The timber slats which will work the same way as Peninsula House will bring out the same sensation.