poster draft

DRAFT WORDS

Grahame required a simple home, but had many ideas which he wished to incorporate into the design of his new cave.  

Due to Grahame's Frank Lloyd Wright influences, he was adamant about constructing his cave over or near a river somewhere within his environment to be somewhat similar to Falling Water, he decided not to go ahead with this idea when he the difficulty of constructing his cave over a river was explained to him.

He decided to build his cave atop the hill, so he can look out over the valley below, and so he is not to close to any of the other annoying animals who accommodate the forest beneath him.
The cave looks out to the ocean through a vista of trees and mountains, as does Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea, and he was inspired by the site location of this architecture so much he decided to design his cave in a similar manner. He also wanted to incorporate a ‘roof top’ type approach to maximising space in his cave. And to also have a pool or pond nearby for hot days and nights.

His home design is simple yet efficient. It has a ground floor level where he spends most of him time, but there is also a level above which is outdoors. This is due to the client wanting to utilise all space possible   

Access to the clients cave will be through a tunnel from the forest floor, winding up through the mountain. It will exit at the bottom of a walkway and the client will then travel up a pathway to the entrance of the cave. Access to the roof top area will be of similar construction, which is a low gradient, winding tunnel.

 

Layar location and URL for Feed

http://tinyurl.com/22v3knt

 

Link to Layar

Site Co-Ordinates

-33.91739,151.227666

BuildAR

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto was born in Kuortane, Finland in 1898, the son of a surveyor. He graduated with honors from Helsinki Polytechnic in 1921 after which he opened his own practice. He held the position of Professor of Architecture at MIT 1946 to 1948, and was President of the Academy of Finland 1963-68. 

Aalto generated a large body of work in Germany, America, and Sweden. Often at work on multiple projects, he tended to intermingle ideas and details within his work. The spectrum of Aalto's work exhibits a sensual detailing that separates him from most of his contemporaries.

Aalto died in Helsinki in May 1976.  

VILLA MAIREA

Lower Plan

Upper Plan

Location Plan

 The villa was designed 1937 to 1938 and built 1938 to 1939.

"Expressionistic variations within a modern/organic framework." (greatbuildingsonline.com)

"The Villa Mairea was built as a country house for the architect's friends Marie and Harry Gullichsen. The house stands in the middle of a pine forest at the top of a hill in western Finland. The house looks out mainly on to continuous unbroken stretches of forest, with a narrow vista through an opening in the trees on to a river and sawmill (which at the time of the house's construction was one of the first industrial enterprises in this part of Finland)."

— Karl Fleig. Alvar Aalto. New York: Praeger Publishers. p175.

AALTO SUMMER HOUSE 

 
A living architectural sketch-pad, with experimental masonry patterns, unifying shed roof.  

Location: Muuratsalo, Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 "The summerhouse at Muuratsalo is not only a place to live and work but is also a sort of experimental house. It is located in the lake country of north-central Finland, one hour by motor boat from the nearest railroad station. Two wings of equal length set perpendicularly to each other, one containing the living area and the other the bedrooms, form a square court which is closed to the exterior by means of high walls. The exterior walls of this court are developed as mosaic-like experimental walls, divided into about fifty areas in which different types and sizes of brick and ceramic tile with different methods of jointing are used, so as to test their effect from both the aesthetic and practical standpoints. The lean-to roof rises steeply over the living area towards the west wall."

 

— Karl Fleig, ed. Alvar Aalto. Scarsdale, N.Y.: Wittenborn and Company, 1963. p200. 

Environments

Similar underwater environment to which Krusty will live.

Underwater Environment with waterfall to the left

Cave 1

 

 

 

Spore

Claude

Claude is employed by the Major League Baseball in America and is used by all teams for practice. 

Claude can hurl a Baseball faster than any player past or present and batters pay Claude to hurl Baseballs at them with his slingshot-like hands and arms. 

Claude lives at all major baseball stadiums in the storage room, as he is not to fussed about where he sleeps.  

Krusty

Krusty is your everyday prawn. He lives in a quite pool at the base of a huge waterfall on a tropical island. He diets on anything that floats past him. He lives in a rock house in a reef-like neighborhood.  

Grahame

Grahame is a strange and one-of-a-kind animal. He lives in the forest in a cave where he mostly keeps to himself. He likes to trawl the forest floor looking for mushrooms or decaying plant matter. He is not a threat to humans or other animals as he does not care to socialise.

Blimples

Blimples floats almost meaninglessly through the sky all over the world. He feeds on lost balloons that children have let go. Although he may only be a fraction of the size of a regular blimp, he stays hidden around the clouds as he is white in colour. 

David

David is a grasshopper-like creature which lives in grasslands throughout the world. He makes his home on the trunks of trees where can sleep for days, after which he will move on to another tree and area where he will eat and socialise with others like himself. 

Paper Folding excercise

Shape 1

Shape 2

Shape 3