Final+Project

A World known Designer’s House I’m going to present to you my first project of the course “Design 1”. The assignment was to design a house for an artist of our choice. This house would be in a street with other 9 houses, one next to the other, which means that it would lose two façades. It would also have 10 other houses in the front, across a big square and a boulevard on its back façade. For my project I chose Carolina Herrera as my client. She is a Venezuelan fashion designer characterized for creating elegant and sophisticated clothing and dresses. As a fashion designer she’s a woman who needs big spaces at her house, but she’s also a loving wife, which means that she would also need personal spaces for her and her husband. Because of the dimensions given (12x12x12 m) the construction was a four story house and the program of uses included a working place, a client’s salon, an exhibition space, an office, and the private spaces such as bedroom, kitchen, living and dining room. The materials used in the project, or the ones that would have been used, were the wood for the structure, which was a framed structure because it wasn’t necessary such a big span for this project because of the nature of the spaces needed, and for the outsides the house was dressed with aluminum sunshades and white plain walls. One of the most important parts of the project is the stairs space, which goes all the way from the floor to the last story in different directions and with a big skylight on the cealing to allow the light entrance. For this element the house needed to use the glass as another construction material, and it was also used in other spaces to bring in the light and to protect the house from the climate events. All the different light entrances give the house the space variety needed, and so it does the materials used on them. That’s why it is so important to choose carefully the structural system and the construction materials that fit better to the project.