Building Site & Programme

Programme = domestic house

Fit with concept:

• separate studio/library/"room for thinking"/home office
• path to this involves being 'outside', forced connection with external environment
• path within the house connecting rooms, slight disconnection between the rooms (on levels above ground level)
• fragrant materials to line the rooms (cedar, macrocarpa) and path (scented plants to walk on), fireplace in living area, kitchen somehow allows cooking smells to waft around the house and perhaps downstairs to greet people coming in (place entry stair well near the kitchen)

Brief - family with 2 children

In order to work in the Tezuka style, I'll need to create my own brief, becoming quite intimate with their requirements and reasons behind these requirements.

So, family characteristics (the Di Silva family):

• parents with 2 children - 8 and 10 years old - and a cat
• father works in the CBD, mother does contract work at home so needs an office space
• children both play musical instruments - piano, flute - parents also play the piano
• parents were keen gardeners, but also are used to living in built up cities (eg. Singapore)
• they have lived in may places but the father has built treehouses for 2 houses where the family used to sit and have afternoon tea - he misses those, the feeling of going out of the house into the trees

Site = use original CBD site

This is to fit in with the Tezuka approach where ideas are translated largely into urban areas. This poses more of a challenge for my concept of path and the open/outdoor feeling of the sky.

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.