AENG 351 - Architectural Design Studio I

Course description:Designing in behavioral and socio-cultural contexts. “Inside-out” approach to Architecture. Design through the study of behavioral use of space. Age, sex, culture and individuality as well as complex functional relationships influence on architectural design. Study of the nature of human behavior and how it can be incorporated, facilitated, modified and influenced through architectural design

Course Outcomes:

• Developed a research-supported architectural program for the design of a residential building that has an art studio and a gallery.

• Designed a mock-up of a residential building based on the user group’s requirements, values and behaviour.

• Participated in several oral presentations for the design in the presence of professors, teaching assistants and fellow architecture students.

• Media used: AutoCAD Architecture, Adobe Photoshop, handmade models.

Project: The Artistic HouseResearchStudy of the users: A family consisting of a father, a mother and two children. They require a house in a calm, peaceful area away from the noisy,

populated and polluted areas in Egypt. For this reason they chose to live in a house in a new compound called “Katameya Residence” in Katameya.

They require their own garage and their own garden where they can always enjoy the view and tranquility of nature

The mother require her own separate calm studio, where she could give private art lessons, overlooking the garden with a gallery to exhibit her work.

The family also required the spaces they use most in the house to be really connected with the view of the garden but indoors because of Egypt’s bad weather. For this reason the design of the house should allow for the maximum interaction with the garden from indoors.

Inspiration pictures:

Research

User’s activities: Father: A business man who spends most of his day at work and goes home for dinner with

his family. He required a small office where he can spend sometime after dinner working and reading books from his small library. He does not receive any clients at home. He likes to gather his family after dinner in the living room to chat or watch television for some time. He doesn’t like to eat in the kitchen; he prefers a small dining table that overlooks the garden.

Mother: An artist who works in her studio at home. She exhibits and sells her paintings in a gallery that is connected to her studio. She teaches her children along with their friends in this studio. The studio should overlook the garden with transparent glass so that nature would inspire children to draw. She doesn’t require a big kitchen as she doesn’t spend a lot of time cooking and they don’t eat in the kitchen. She also wants to have a lounge for the children where they can relax between their art lessons.

Children: Two girls that wake up early for school. They come back from school in the afternoon and have lunch in the living room. They both like drawing just like their mother so they require a place in their rooms where they can hang some of their paintings. They use the small dining table which is in the living room to study as they don’t like to study on their rooms. For that reason they don’t require large bedrooms as they just use them for sleeping. On the other hands the girls require a large dressing room that is connected to both of their rooms where they can share their clothes. They want enough space in the dressing room to fit their accessories, clothes, shoes and handbags.

Research

The House Components:

First Floor Components

- Reception

- Dining

- Kitchen

- Guest Toilet

- Art gallery

- Terrace

- Art studio

- Lounge for students

- Studio’s toilet

- Lobby

Research

The House Components:

Second Floor Components

- Living room with a small dining table

- Two small bedrooms

- A dressing room

- Two toilets

- Master Bedroom

- Office

Research

Area: First Floor:- Studio: It is usually occupied by the mother, her 2 children and almost 4-5 other children. It should be

wide enough to occupy 8 drawing tables which is roughly 30cmx42cm each and art taborets for holding palettes, paints, brushes, etc. It should also have a place for storing drawings and art materials. So it should approximately be 5mx5m.

- Gallery: It is mainly used by the mother to display her works of art. It should allow 3-5 m2 hanging surface per picture and she would approximately display 10 paintings. So it should approximately be 5mx6m.

- Lounge: It is used by 6-7 children to rest in between their art lessons. They will mainly use it to watch tv, chat, read some art books or relax. So it should occupy a comfortable sofa, 2 or 3 other chairs, a tv and book shelves. It should approximately be 4mx4m.

- Kitchen: It would only be used for cooking. According to standard measures, it should approximately be 8-10 m2.

- Reception and dining: The dining table will be for around eight people and it should approximately be 3mx4m. The reception should approximately be 4mx4m.

- Guest’s toilet: 2mx2m.- Studio toilet: 2mx2m.

Research

Pie Chart:

First Floor:

22%

26%

14%

8%

14%

10%

3% 3%

Areas (m^2)

Studio

Gallery

Lounge

Kitchen

Reception

Dinning

Guests' toilet

Studio toilet

Research

Area: Second Floor:

- Girls’ bedrooms: It should occupy their bed and a desk to study on. They won’t need cupboards as they will have a large dressing room. It should approximately be 3mx3m.

- Dressing room: It should be a large one as it is going to be shared by the two girls. It should approximately be 3mx3m.

- Bedrooms’ toilets: 2mx3m.

- Master bedroom: 3mx4m

- Living room: There will be a dining table which requires a space of 3mx3m and the rest of the living room will be 5mx6m.

- Office: It will be a small one because it will only be used by the father to work in and to read books. It should approximately be 2mx2m.

- Kitchenette: It would be a small one with a cooker, a storage surface and a sink to prepare quick meals for the family. It should be 5-6 m2.

Research

Pie Chart:

Second Floor:

16%

17%

11%

11%

36%

4%5%

Areas (m^2)

Girls' bedrooms

Dressing rooms

Toilets

Master bedroom

Living room

Office

Kitchenette

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First Stage:- Developed a way of circulation that

connects the private part of the house to

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