Key Features carried to my design:

• Bringing 'outside', 'inside': Creating space that isn't outside, nor is it inside space. James Russel does this in the Brookes street house by placing a small patch of lawn in the centre of the house. In my cabin I have taken his idea of open space and used it to create a main room facing the breeze. It is open on three sides allowing free flow of air through the house
• The two large, timber clad openings in the front room are used to create the outdoor feel that James Russell had used so well in the Brookes st house.
• The house has no completely solid walls. These partitions instead create completely open living to allow maximum air flow and less retractability
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Diagrams

Quick site plan sketch

Basic Materials

First site plan

Bubble Diagram: spaces and adjacency

Early Planning Diagrams

Sunpath: The Cabin is situated on a western coast, The morning sun from the east heats the back wall and in the afternoon the sun shines onto the main open room at the front of the cabin

Site options extended

Site options further discussed

Final site selection

Part c: Mount Methodology and The Cabin

The site that I have chosen for my cabin is shown highlighted in red in the second picture above. Situated on 'Counter lever Cliffs', my cabin will gain the breezes from the coastline however being sheltered by a hill, it will create its own sanctuary for the inhabitants.

I chose this site beacuase it presents a number of constraints, just like that of James Russell's Brookes st Residence.

These sketches show the possible site for a cabin situated at Counter lever Cliffs.

The 'Parti' Sketch