We were asked what we would want to be on the site if we had a chance to design there. We were NOT allowed to destroy or alter the site as it is in terms of the house being there except to add or subtract land from other areas within the plot of land. We were to work within the confines of what we knew about the site (air/wind flow, shadow studies, sun, temperatures, etc)
My idea is a tree house that has hanging paintings and windows that operate via pulleys. It has a tea room (with a pot that hangs from the ceiling) and a tat@mi mat/bed, and a balcony facing the ocean (in the direction of the bluff) that has a railing, near potted plants, where you can read books, and stacks of bookshelves that you can get to via a ladder (to keep with the use of space in all directions) etc.
Oh, the house roof is a terrace filled with greenery up top, so from above it would be camouflaged into the landscape (although there are mostly Eucalyptus trees on the site, and I probably wouldn't have those large tree leaves on my roof :).
In the side facing the house on the second floor, there is no railing, so you'd be able to sit on the ledge. It's the same height as the house itself and sits among the trees in the meadow, experiencing the same kind of daylight and wind flow.
It also sits on stilts (which I"m in the process of making) and is in three distinct, graphic styles. The first at the base is like the Intern@tional style with the pil0ties and the first floor (which you have to use the stairs from the bottom of the meadow to get to) is in all glass, and only has a record player playing music (which can be heard from the floor above) and says "Welcome to the E@mes' treehouse). The stairs continue onward and you get to the second floor, where the tea is served, etc. Also, you enter the 2nd floor through a sort of trap door entrance (above you) and when you look up there is a long lightwell providing a sliver of light (also operated from a pulley).
Anyways, too much info. Working on initial chipboard model, and final should be coming soon. I kept the L-brace type things in to the structure for now because it's supposed to be made out of wood ideally. It has to be in white (the final) to give the panel a better sense of the form of the building, which is fine by me. (it's going to be made out of museum board and PETG. I have another window to add, also to this model, which was on the first one (on the opposite side of the balcony facing the house and nearest to where the bookshelves would be).
