Conclusion

Just a bit of information to sum up:

Basically I just tried to make the new cabin have the same spatial qualities as Lambert House. This has been done by taking key elements and ideas from Lambert House and converting them into a smaller space.

Hall believes in the craftsman approach to design and appreciates decoration and embellishments as a means of expression. As such the cabin has features such as stained glass windows and a timber construction to give the building a decorative aspect. Like Lambert House the new cabin has an unusual form and uses it to best advantage for a logical flow of circulation.

Similar climatic filters were used in the new cabin. The shading devices on Lambert House that allow natural light in but keep direct sun out were echoed in the use of a verendah in the new cabin. Both buildings have a single layer of timber as the exterior wall in order for cool air to easily enter the building. Similarly both buildings are arranged vertically to allow cool air to enter through the bottom, circulate up through the space, and the warm air can then escape through the roof.

In the end both buildings are different yet similar in their qualities. The new cabin provides an alternative to the design of Lambert House on a smaller scale.

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The new cabin drawings

The final drawings:

Site Plan (scale 1:5000):
Site Plan (Scale 1:500):

Site Section (Scale 1:500):

Plans (Scale 1:100):

Exploded Axonometric-3D view (Scale 1:100):

Elevation and Section (Scale 1:100):

ANALYSIS OF DESIGN:

HOUSE IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL FILTER:

-The cabin is raised off the ground to allow cool air to enter the building form underneath

-A single layer timber structure also allows cool air to easily penetrate the interior

-Shading devices (the verendah roof and the roof over the towers) allow for natural light to enter and stop direct sunlight.

-Large windows on most walls of the building allow for a naturally well lit interior.

-The material timber is a good insulator

-The verendah is located on the northern side of the house therefore stopping the heat from the hottest part of the day from directly entering the house.

HOUSE IS A CONTAINER OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES:

-Travelling through the space, zones move from more public to more private

-Each activity area is separated by the varying levels, but all are still close to one another

HOUSE IS A DELIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE:

-The house possesses a unique form

-This unique form leads to different spatial arrangements, making wayfinding more interesting for the users.

-Stained glass windows allow give colour to the interior

-The use of timber adds to the warm, homely feeling.

Diagrams for Lambert house and the new cabin

Here's the diagrams of both Lambert House and how I've used the same aspect in my design:

ENVIRONMENTAL FILTER

Climatic Response Diagram (ventilation):

Climatic Response Diagram (ventilation):

Climatic Response Diagram (sun and natural light):

CONTAINER FOR HUMAN ACTIVITIES

Matrix Diagram:

Bubble Diagram (Spatial adjacency):

Zoning Diagram:

A DELIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE

Parti:

Organisation of Form Diagram:

Abctraction of Form Diagram:

My revised Lambert House drawings

Here's the final drawings for Lambert House:

Plans: Scale 1:100


Plans: Scale 1:100

Elevation and Section: Scale 1:100

Interior 3D: Not to scale

Site plan: Scale 1:500

The original Lambert House drawings to draw from

Here's the drawings and pictures I had to draw from. Unfortunately I didn't the drawings off the architect so for some drawings I had to make do.


Site Plan: From google earth



Plans of the 5 levels: From the Book "Contemporary Australian Architecture" (1994, p. 213)

Section: From the book "Contemporary Australian Architecture" (1994, p. 214)


Elevation: From the site http://espace.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12950


Interior 3D view: From the book "Contemporary Australian Architecture" (1994, p. 216)

References:

Jahn, G. (1994). Contemporary Australian Architecture. Australia: Craftsman House

The University of Queensland. (2007). North Elevation, Carpenter Hall Houe, Wilston, Brisbane. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://espace.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12950

First attempt at doing the exemplar drawings:

Section, Ground floor plan and first floor plan. All at 1:100

Feedback:

• Need to make detail lines (the timber finishing) lighter and more important lines (structural stuff and columns) heavier.
• Need to show where the section and elevation is on the plans
• Make lines overlap (don't cut them off too short)
• Needs a north point

Second floor plan, third floor plan and fourth floor plan. All at 1:100

Feedback:

• Again, make line overlap
• Label as "first floor plan" rather that Plan 1
• Needs a north point
  

3D view and site plan. Not to Scale.

Feedback:

• Do drawings to scale
• 3D should be ALOT neater
• Site plan should show access ways (entries and exits)
• Draw exactly as the architect has.
• Needs a north point
  
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  Elevation and the beginnings of a titleblock. Elevation at 1:100.

Feedback:

• Do titleblock on all pages
• Pages should be laid out more appropriately eg: all plans on one, section and elevation on another
  

Further research of Lambert House:

A HOUSE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL FILTER:

SHADING DEVICES:
Angled awnings improve the climatic performance of the house by cleverly protecting against the sun at various elevations (See Figure 1).

Figure 1: Shading System http://espace.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12953u/view/UQ:12953u/view/UQ:12953u/view/UQ:12953

WEATHER PROTECTION:
As the walls are only a single layer of timber the heat can escape the house quickly whilst the external metal frame over the timber protects against excessive rain.

VENTILATION:
Voids between the upper three floors allow for through ventilation. When hot air reaches the top of the building, it can escape through a rotary ventilator.

VIEWS: Because of its height, the building allows for views to Brisbane city and surrounding bushland (see Figure 2).

Figure 2: Views over the surrounding bushland from inside

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VEGETATION: Hall designed the house for his sister who "asked for him to design a house which took up as little space as possible, leaving the garden as a sanctuary for various wildlife (Our House, 2007). Hall responded to this by making the building go 'up rather than out'.

TOPOGRAPHY: The building responds well to the steep slope of the site by having an extra level below the level of entry (see Figure 3)

Figure 3: The slope of the site

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A HOUSE AS A CONTAINER OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES:
LAYOUT OF SPACES:
Each level of the house consists of a different activity. The ground floor is a guest level with a laundry. The second floor (the entry level) is a kitchen and dining room, third is the living room, fourth is the master bedroom and the highest level is an office and sewing room.

CIRCULATION: Air flow occurs vertically via stairs. Hall says about Brisbane's height restrictions and therefore low design creates "bad climate design, increase excavation and fill-dumping & increase cost" (Hall, 2003). Therefore circulation is not the only benefit of building high.

ZONING OF ACTIVITIES: Each floor is dedicated to an activity/zone. These zones move from the more public on the bottom floors to the more private on the top floors.

A HOUSE IS A DELIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE:

EXPRESSION:
Hall has made use of embellishments and decorations in the house (see Figure 4) as “he believes that embellishments and decoration provide vital expressions for humans” (Jahn, 1994, p. 213)

Figure 4: Stained glass windows and decorative timber panelling

http://espace.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12971

COLOUR:
Colour enters the space throught the many stained glass windows. Jahn (1994, p. 217) says the “fluid filled prisms at the apex of the tower roof send refracted coloured light into the internal spaces of the house and outwards across the suburb". In the absence of natural light, the walls also many artworks.

FORM:
Riddel (2005, p. 17) says that the form of the house "is made up of 2 intersecting towers, with plan forms of disparate shape".

REFERENCES:

Hall, R. (2003). Russell Hall for Lord Mayor. Retrieved March 19, 2010, from http://www.russellhallarchitects.com.au/archives/2004_03.html

Jahn, G. (1994). Contemporary Australian Architecture. Australia: Craftsman House.

Our House. (2007). Tower House. Retrieved March 19, 2010, from http://ourhouse.ninemsn.com.au/ourhouse/factsheets/db/openhouse/02/257.asp.

Riddel, R. (2005). Significant Queensland 20th century architecture. Retrieved March 19, 2010, from www.architecture.com.au/i-cms_file?page=3506/20C_arch.

The chosen 3 exemplars:

CHICKEN POINT CABIN (Tom Kundig, Lake Hayden - Idaho, 2003):

Described as a 'little box with a big window', Chicken Point Cabin protects from the weather but is at one with its surroundings through its use of a large 20 by 30 foot window that opens to the outside. The use of blocks of bright colour and interesting texture give the concrete and steel structure a suprisingly warm feel.

LAKE WEYBA HOUSE (Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole, Sunshine Coast - Queensland, 1996):

Consisting of three modules divided into the order of activities. These are a living room, kitchen and office in one module, a bath and wash house and finally the bedroom. Climate has been a main consideration in this buildings with adequate shading devices and large verendah areas.

LAMBERT HOUSE (Russell Hall, Wilson - Queenland, 1986):

Hall designed this house specifially for his sister and has utilised his beliefs of craftmanship over machine made. The house is 5 storeys high with each storey representing a different activity within the house. Hall made the house high rather than wide in order to conserve as much of the natural setting of the site as possible.