DESN 230 — VISUALIZATION FOR INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE  |  FALL 2019  |  T/TH 1:00–3:45PM  | RM#

P3 | RESIDENTIAL DESIGN - EICHLER REMODEL

6 weeks

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Solo or Teams of Two Only

You have a client who's recently purchased a beautiful mid-century modern Joseph Eichler home. While Eichler homes are highly desirable today, this one hasn't been updated in several decades and it looks dated. Your client wants to make it into a showcase home fitting to impress the neighbors and for showing off while entertaining colleagues and clients.

A previous designer began the project, but it stalled so your client now has a partial model of the house begun and you've been commissioned to complete the design. You'll need to complete the 3D model and develop a contemporary modern, bold, yet timelessly elegant design proposal for your client.

Your client is to be chosen at random drawing. (Fall 2019, we used authors from the New York Times list of 2019 best sellers).

Get to know who your client is. Identify what their family size and needs are (research them). Identify any particularly unique aspects about them that may inform the design decisions you make. "I like..." does not likely represent a strong understanding of your client's interests. Be mindful.

Begin with the started Sketchup model

posted to Beachboard / Content / Project 3

Begin space-planning accordingly, use Sketching to quickly evaluate ideas before dragging time on the model! Sketches prepare your strategy into the modeling!

You do not need to plan the entire home/space, focus on only the area(s) in which you plan to develop your perspectives/views, the key spaces are fine to focus on.

PROCESS / METHODOLOGY

Modeling - Sketchup

Rendering 1 - May do hand renderings using Sketchup Model as a base underlay (print scenes), and/or use rendering engines Podium, V-Ray, or Enscape (for VR)

Rendering 2 - Use Photoshop for retouching, color enhancement, contrast adjustments, add people, plants, etc.

Drawings - Hand, Illustrator, or SketchUp orthographics elevations

Presentation - Organize into a coherent InDesign presentation. (or SketchUp Layout)

 

Although we should now be more confident in Sketchup and Digital Rendering, students should complement their presentations and "soften" digital work with some hand rendering as well. Some students may prefer all hand rendering, use the model as an underlay for your "shots". Feel free to render on trace paper or marker paper for richer vibrancy. Use markers for foundational values on the back/underside (trace paper rendering only), ink pen lines on top/front side, and final texture and detailing with Prismacolor pencils on the front as well.

Remember to always add more LIFE! More textures, materials, details.

Add lighting, shadow casting based on day-to-day observation, lighting effects on the walls.

Add artwork to the walls, and shadows--think about where the daylight is coming from, ie. what is the orientation of your project on the site? Where is your site?

Don't forget about the ceiling. Students often forget the ceiling as just as important as a wall or floor surface. Make the ceiling visually interesting. Whatever you do, don't leave it white paper! Add recessed lamps, cove lighting, hanging pendants or chandeliers, change of materiality, structural beams, exposed A/C ducts, etc.

Add landscape/context outside the glass windows. Remember, most trees are much larger than a window.

Remember to include people from Entourage, silhouettes are sufficient, into your space using a loose style for placement and scale (use entourage for final). Remember, eye level through the Horizon Line, feet come up/down in relation to the HL, proximity to the view.

DELIVERABLES

Sketchup Model fully developed around the student's chosen 3 (min, or more) key spaces

Floor Plan, which may consider outdoor areas, patios, landscaping close to the house, etc.

2 Section-Elevations: 1-Longitudinal, 1-Cross

3 Perspective views of the student's chosen 3 (min, or more) key spaces

Concept materials board, or integrated into the layouts

Narrative analysis intro. 250 words

Captions to images, drawings

PLUS

A fly through animation/VR of the house and especially the key rooms you've identified.

OR

Booklet design of your design proposal — Saddle-stitched design ONLY

UPLOAD TO DROPBOX

Presentation file (PDF)

Video or Booklet file (PDF)

Sketchup Model file

 

NO TRADITIONAL PHYSICAL MODEL DUE WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT, HOWEVER IT IS NOT DISCOURAGED EITHER. MAY BE CONSIDERED BONUS MATERIAL

REFERENCES

Joseph Eichler's Mid-Century Homes Reborn in Palm Springs - ArchPaper

Modern Eichler Renovations - Dwell

Eichler Neighborhoods and bio

Mid-Century California Modernist Contemporaries

Rudolph Schindler

Richard Neutra

Pierre Koenig

Charles & Ray Eames

Craig Ellwood

Edward Killingsworth, Long Beach local

More Furnture Brands - This is by no means an exhaustive list. There is an abundance today to choose from.

STUDENT PRESENTATION EXAMPLES (LOFT PROJECT)

STUDENT HAND RENDERING EXAMPLES

Elevations and Plans are shown here for rendering reference only.

Left: Presentation with two elevations, plan and perspective view.

Left: Presentation with two elevations, plan and perspective view.

Left: Presentation with two perspective views.

Below: Presentation including process drawing and material reference images. Notice the bottom view is also in 3-pt perspective from a very low viewpoint, perhaps that of a toddler.

STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES (SLOs)

  1. Introduce students to important designers through iconic modern design.
  2. Challenge students to make choices and develop surface
    changes based on rendering logic and principles.
  3. Challenge students to develop traditional drawing competency alongside computer skills competencies.
  4. Develop student's understanding and development of presentational media.
  5. Challenge student's to design for a client.

GRADING AND EVALUATION RUBRIC

The following Rubric will apply in assessment of the student's work product, presentation, and/or process:

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* Estimate only. See instructor and calendar for specific due dates. Summer Session schedule is more compressed with one week equal to approximately two and half semester weeks.

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