Architect Designs and Builds Home Addition
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gives architecture its charm, it also makes the design process rather dicult for designers who place inordinate value on the mundane aspects of reality. This is especially true ...
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Architect Designs and Builds Home Addition ITHACA, NY, 2004-05 Design is a process in which cause and eect are mediated by analysis. The process is linear (since we live and act in real time) but iterative, so that eect often becomes a new cause. Design is also a process inuenced by both abstract ideas (about form) and practical ideas (about reality, including issues of cost, construction, structure, energy, etc.). Abstract ideas about design are often in conict with ideas about reality. While this tension between appearance (form) and necessity (gravity, thermal behavior, and so on) is what gives architecture its charm, it also makes the design process rather dicult for designers who place inordinate value on the mundane aspects of reality. This is especially true in my case, not only because I have diculty prioritizing the arbitrary and capricious over the logical and sensible, but because I have decided not only to design, but to engineer and build much of this project myself. Every possible pleasure in manipulating appearance/form is therefore immediately directed to that other part of my brain that asks: Can I build this? Does this make sense? How much will it cost? In what follows, I have schematized and summarized my design process beginning with a rst cause and leading to a nal eect: the design and construction of an addition to my house in Ithaca, NY. Cause: Need more space. Options and Analysis: We need more space. No doubt about it. Were sleeping on a futon in the living room, theres no place to create artwork, the piano is in conict with the radio, the television interferes with reading, and theres no place for winter coats and boots. Options include nding a new house, building an addition, renovating the garage, or locating external (additional) space. For over 10 years we study and debate the options; nally we decide that building an addition has the most benets at least cost. Eect: Decision to design and build addition. Cause: Decision to design and build addition. Options and Analysis: Addition can be placed on one of four sides of our lot (east, west, south, or north). West requires purchasing neighbors property (not possible); north yard is not big enough, plus it destroys existing front facade and sits on existing sewer, gas, and water lines (bad idea); south destroys small back yard and elm tree; east could be placed in or about existing driveway without taking up any yard space and with minimal impact on existing house or utilities; possible link through existing side door; driveway needs to be redone anyway. Eect: Decision to design addition on east side of house. Cause: Decision to design addition on east side off house. Options and Analysis: Several schemes are developed. Option A is a bar perpendicular to the east facade; Option B is a bar parallel to the east facade. Option A ...
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