UPDATED IDEA:
Over the course of the week I rethought my initial idea (which I'll leave at the bottom of this post), and completely changed it. I'm goign to repurpose the original building and create a playground area. Taking the idea of privacy from the original, it will be sheltered from the outside, but really open on the inside.
I'm going to take the frame of the building and use that to create a series of poles that will be the basic form of the playground area.
Original idea (not being used anymore)
The original building has a unique sense of division between it's private and public sides. From the outside, it looks like a bland structure, as all you can see is a rendered, white wall. Once you move inside on the other hand, the building opens up with a series of windows, running different lengths and spanning different levels. This floods the structure with natural light, and opens it up to the expansive yard. Overall, from the back side of the building it's a much more inviting and warm place.
Over the course of the week I rethought my initial idea (which I'll leave at the bottom of this post), and completely changed it. I'm goign to repurpose the original building and create a playground area. Taking the idea of privacy from the original, it will be sheltered from the outside, but really open on the inside.
I'm going to take the frame of the building and use that to create a series of poles that will be the basic form of the playground area.
Original idea (not being used anymore)
The original building has a unique sense of division between it's private and public sides. From the outside, it looks like a bland structure, as all you can see is a rendered, white wall. Once you move inside on the other hand, the building opens up with a series of windows, running different lengths and spanning different levels. This floods the structure with natural light, and opens it up to the expansive yard. Overall, from the back side of the building it's a much more inviting and warm place.
Taking this idea, I wanted to expand on the idea of the division between private and public, what can and can't be seen, and by whom you allow the different parts to be seen by.
My initial idea for the reinvention is to create a ring structure, which uses both solid and glass walls to hide or display sections of the house, depending on where you're looking from.
So in the building, there would be two stories, like with the original. The lower facade being made of tinted glass, like the windows out the back of the original house. This allows the occupants to look outside, while maintaining the sense of privacy from the outside world.
In the centre of the building is a garden, and suspended above it is a platform for the occupants to use to observe the garden area below them. The garden is more of a public space within the comfines of the walls, and the platform above allows the occupants to use the area in their own private way without interacting with the area below them.
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