Sustainability Visualized through Phenomenology
This home is so much more than the sum of its parts. It joins mind, body, and spirit. [i] Life’s experiences nurturing and enriching the space to make it at one with the client and, through sustainability, with the world. Sustainability depends on technology, but it is the designer humanizes the result.
The natural light becomes an active participant of the home with an ever-changing play of light and shadow, defining shape and form. Harnessing the power of the sun, yet modifying and controlling its intensity and heat becomes integral to visual and thermal comfort in this solar powered home.
Problem solving is an opportunity to expand the unifying design concept of circles and arcs interacting with angular planes. As a pebble dropped in water, the forms reverberate from the center with circles expanding to ricochet off the angular planes of the architecture forming arcs and more angles in the eddies. This concept begins in the custom designed etched glass wall, informs the stained concrete patterns, unifies the pool and the surrounding gardens, and circles back in the final interior details of custom designed dining table.
It is a blending of technologies layered with sustainable design, selection and assessment of materials embedded in the aesthetics of the client. The client who is the overriding, unifying, and driving force of this project made each decision with conscious intention.[ii] Her life experiences become the tenuous stream of consciousness that imbues this project in the philosophy of phenomenology
[i] Day, C. (2002). Spirit & Place. Burlington, MA: Architectural Press.
[ii] Baldursson, S. (2009, October 12). Nature of At-Homeness.
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This home is so much more than the sum of its parts. It joins mind, body, and spirit. [i] Life’s experiences nurturing and enriching the space to make it at one with the client and, through sustainability, with the world. Sustainability depends on technology, but it is the designer humanizes the result.
The natural light becomes an active participant of the home with an ever-changing play of light and shadow, defining shape and form. Harnessing the power of the sun, yet modifying and controlling its intensity and heat becomes integral to visual and thermal comfort in this solar powered home.
Problem solving is an opportunity to expand the unifying design concept of circles and arcs interacting with angular planes. As a pebble dropped in water, the forms reverberate from the center with circles expanding to ricochet off the angular planes of the architecture forming arcs and more angles in the eddies. This concept begins in the custom designed etched glass wall, informs the stained concrete patterns, unifies the pool and the surrounding gardens, and circles back in the final interior details of custom designed dining table.
It is a blending of technologies layered with sustainable design, selection and assessment of materials embedded in the aesthetics of the client. The client who is the overriding, unifying, and driving force of this project made each decision with conscious intention.[ii] Her life experiences become the tenuous stream of consciousness that imbues this project in the philosophy of phenomenology
[i] Day, C. (2002). Spirit & Place. Burlington, MA: Architectural Press.
[ii] Baldursson, S. (2009, October 12). Nature of At-Homeness.
Retrieved from http://www.Phenomenologyonline.com/articles/baldursson.html