Sunday, 23 March 2014
Thursday, 20 March 2014
How the understanding of “home” has changed over time
J. Douglass Porteous wrote his statement in 1976 and varies to Mallett's statement. Porteous's viewpoint is that the home is much more than a place or a simple physical structure. He believes that the it an important entity and that it emotionally ties itself to the individual living the facility. A home is revered much more a geographical location and space it is a threshold for the being to live and survive in. The home supplies the occupant appreciation to their chosen home as they are stimulated by their homes as it becomes a haven and stable refuge for their existence. The home makes the individual territorial however quite simply stated although they enjoy and appreciate it the most fully appreciated paradoxically "only by leaving it". Where as Mallet's article describes home not as a physical place but rather a home is dependent on various of factors. Those factors being gender, age beliefs, culture, experiences and etc. As seen by both writers the idea and concept of home has changed over time however Home will always be a place that will engulf the person who belongs to it.
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Proposal design for the client
- All objects are bolted down and secured
- Plastic circular windows
- Child accessible
- Must be sturdy
- Bunk beds
- Fold-able wall
- must have a Kamidana
- Basic kitchen
- Must have a fridge
- Must facilitate for cold weather
- Roof escape hatch
Clients
Who has been affected?
2 brothers
How have they been affected?
Tsunami
What are their needs and vulnerabilities?
One younger brother, 12 years old
One older brother, 18 years old
Height, age disadvantage and limited cooking skill
Are they in an urban or rural location?
Urban
What housing existed before the natural disaster?
4 bedroom residential house in the Kesennuma City
Before and after the disaster
How did it deal with the division of spaces, privacy, security,
climate control?
It was a confined space with good privacy and security and was well insulated to the cold climate in Japan.
What are the climatic conditions? Cold climate? Warm, humid climate? Hot, dry climate?
Cold Climate, susceptible to earthquakes
Do those displaced dwellers have cultural or religious traditions which influence their apparel, day to day activities, or
social interactions?
2 brothers
How have they been affected?
Tsunami
What are their needs and vulnerabilities?
One younger brother, 12 years old
One older brother, 18 years old
Height, age disadvantage and limited cooking skill
Are they in an urban or rural location?
Urban
What housing existed before the natural disaster?
4 bedroom residential house in the Kesennuma City
Before and after the disaster
How did it deal with the division of spaces, privacy, security,
climate control?
It was a confined space with good privacy and security and was well insulated to the cold climate in Japan.
What are the climatic conditions? Cold climate? Warm, humid climate? Hot, dry climate?
Cold Climate, susceptible to earthquakes
Do those displaced dwellers have cultural or religious traditions which influence their apparel, day to day activities, or
social interactions?
- Shinto, meaning "the way of the gods", is Japan's indigenous religion and is practiced by about 83% of the population.
- A shrine is a building built in which to house the kami, with a separation from the "ordinary" world through sacred space with defined features based on the age and lineage of the shrine. The kamidana is a home shrine (placed on a wall in the home) that is a "kami residence" that acts as a substitute for a large shrine on a daily basis. In each case the object of worship is considered a sacred space inside which the kami spirit actually dwells, being treated with the utmost respect and deference.
Exercise 1 - Definitions of Home and Statements
Statements
Porteous, J. D. (1976). Home: The territorial core. Geographical Review, 66(4), 383-390
"Home provides both the individual and the small primary group known as the
family with all three territorial satisfactions. These satisfactions derive from the
control of physical space, and this control is secured by two major means. The
personalization of space is an assertion of identity and a means of ensuring stimulation."
"Home is not only the focus of psychic satisfactions, it is also the fulcrum of the
individual's activity space, the locus at which individual control of fixed physical
space is paramount."
"Home is more than a house, an apartment, or any other physical structure. It is a
building unit or area, of more or less measurable dimensions, in which a considerable
emotional investment is made by the individual."
Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1), 62-89.
"Home
n. 1. The place or a place where one lives: have you no home to go to?...
14. at home in, on, or with. familiar or conversant with."
"Home encompasses the house or dwelling that a person lived... Childhood house(s). I also symbolizes the family relationships and life courses enacted within the spaces... 'It shelters our daydreaming, cradles our thoughts and memories and provides us with a sense of stability... Through our lives the house... remains "physically inscribed in us"."
"Without the family a home is 'only a house'"
Concepts
Home can be summed down within 3 concepts as seen by the prescribed set quotes written above being
1. Home and stimulation
2. Home and activity
3. Home and family
Stimulation of the home is as stated by Porteous one of the two major means of the home. It is fundamental as the space personalises and asserts identity of that space to the owner. Home and journey are co-dependant on each other as the journey and past experiences of the owner of the home scculpts it and crafts it into an extension of being who lives in it. As stated by Porteous it is a considerable emotional investment made by the individual. Home and family is critical in an environment it builds a form of security and as seen by statements by Mallet can sculpt the people living in the habitat as it defines their memories and persona.
Porteous, J. D. (1976). Home: The territorial core. Geographical Review, 66(4), 383-390
"Home provides both the individual and the small primary group known as the
family with all three territorial satisfactions. These satisfactions derive from the
control of physical space, and this control is secured by two major means. The
personalization of space is an assertion of identity and a means of ensuring stimulation."
"Home is not only the focus of psychic satisfactions, it is also the fulcrum of the
individual's activity space, the locus at which individual control of fixed physical
space is paramount."
"Home is more than a house, an apartment, or any other physical structure. It is a
building unit or area, of more or less measurable dimensions, in which a considerable
emotional investment is made by the individual."
Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1), 62-89.
"Home
n. 1. The place or a place where one lives: have you no home to go to?...
14. at home in, on, or with. familiar or conversant with."
"Home encompasses the house or dwelling that a person lived... Childhood house(s). I also symbolizes the family relationships and life courses enacted within the spaces... 'It shelters our daydreaming, cradles our thoughts and memories and provides us with a sense of stability... Through our lives the house... remains "physically inscribed in us"."
"Without the family a home is 'only a house'"
Concepts
Home can be summed down within 3 concepts as seen by the prescribed set quotes written above being
1. Home and stimulation
2. Home and activity
3. Home and family
Stimulation of the home is as stated by Porteous one of the two major means of the home. It is fundamental as the space personalises and asserts identity of that space to the owner. Home and journey are co-dependant on each other as the journey and past experiences of the owner of the home scculpts it and crafts it into an extension of being who lives in it. As stated by Porteous it is a considerable emotional investment made by the individual. Home and family is critical in an environment it builds a form of security and as seen by statements by Mallet can sculpt the people living in the habitat as it defines their memories and persona.
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Exercise 1 - Comparative precedent study
http://sisalla.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/shipping-container-living.html
Features
1. Efficient
2. Balcony extension
3. Glass doors
Design Approaches
1. Contemporary approach
2. Singular shipping container
3. Bright colours
Adam Kalkin shipping container
http://www.coolhunting.com/design/-would-you-live.php
Features
1. Walls are collapse-able
2. Window openings
3. furniture fixed to crate
Design Approaches
1. Minimalistic approach
2. Singular shipping container
3. Darker colours
Both designs contain both similarities and differences however both are quite structurally sound. The Sisalla shipping container holds a quite contemporary approach unlike the Adam Kalkin shipping container which pushes more of a minimalistic approach, however they both consist in one singular shipping container. Although I favour the minimalistic approach I believe the minimum nature will be necessary to be mass produced and utilised in my chosen location, Japan. The Sisalla shipping container also depends heavily on the glass, like the Adam Kalkin shipping container my container design shouldnt consist too heavily on glass or if any due to the tendency for glass to shatter during earthquakes. Therefore other materials may be utilised such as plastic. The Adam Kalkin shipping container utilised the hard steel which I favoured and will adopt in my design. Although both designs are testament to exceptional architecture sharing similarities and differences both aid in the design process for the shipping container I will design in Japan due to the event of an earthquake.
Exercise 1 - Location
Location: Kesennuma City, Japan
Natural Disaster: Tsunami
The location I have chosen is Kesennuma City, Japan, where it suffers many natural disasters mainly tsunamis and earthquakes. The most recent being the earthquake in 2011 that struck bringing terrifying devastation. The shelter must be able to fend off the elements created by the earthquake.
Natural Disaster: Tsunami
The location I have chosen is Kesennuma City, Japan, where it suffers many natural disasters mainly tsunamis and earthquakes. The most recent being the earthquake in 2011 that struck bringing terrifying devastation. The shelter must be able to fend off the elements created by the earthquake.
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