Design exercise #2: 36 Airedale Street

"I want students to make a invisible architecture with your own sky. Physically it is impossible to make architecture to be invisible, because architecture is a physical existence. The idea will be based on a Japanese concept called Shiturae...If you can lecture about Japanese tea house, it will help them. Great Japanese architectures are like a sharp Japanese cooking knife. It is a tool to slice and cut environment."

Address: 36 Airedale Street, Auckland CBD
Land area: approx. 230 m2, approx. 10.5m x 22.5m with a gentle slope up towards the back of the section (fall of about 2.5m). Two storied buildings flank all sides except the street. Views limited to adjacent buildings.

Exercise: design 3 different plans for a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 teenage children) with 2 cars.

Family profile (my made up one):
mum & dad work in the city, previously lived overseas in a large city so like the city 'buzz'. Children, 2 girls aged 14 and 16 years, with hobbies that include playing some kind of musical instrument (obe/clarinet?/cello?) and sports so need spaces for playing music and storing equipment.
Parent's hobbies including cooking (kitchen is important, also outdoor area for growing herbs etc), reading/books (bookcases), yoga (space for practice), mountain biking (storage), tropical fish....