Final Plans

After working a lot with house SB, Júlia and Miriam have finally finished their 2D plans.
Reviewed and corrected, here we have the finally documents of the project:

Sections

To finish the first part of the work, Miriam and Júlia did the sections.
There are two section, each section is a view of a cut of the house.

Let's see Section A:

Section A is a cut seen from the front of the house. It's difficult to imagine but what we are seeing in colour blue is the inside of the ground floor. The second floor is not cut because it is horizontal to us, but the ground floor is perpendicular.
We continue seeing the carport on the right and the ground line in purple.


Let's see section B:

In section B happens the other way round of section A. We have the second floor cut but not the ground floor. We are seeing the cut of the walls inside the house and its thickness. We can also see the staires in red and the ground line with the fundaments.

Elevations

The project continued with the drawings of the elevations of the house. 
The elevations let us differentiate the parts that wee see on the facade.

Here we have the North-West elevation. We could say that this is the main facade of the house, the front part. We can distinguish the facade (hatched in yellow lines), the windows (green layer) and the ground line (purple). The hole that we have on the right is the carport that lays under the second floor.

If we do a 180º rotation of the house we have the South-West elevation or the back of the house. The openings here are on the top of the facade because they will let the sun go through them and heat the house. We can see also that the carport now is on the left.

The two elevations of the sides (South-East on the left and North-East on the right) are very similar because the house maintains an axis of symmetry.
Even though, on the left we can see big openings facing the garden and on the right wee see some small windows at the bottom touching the ground line.

Second Floor

They continued working with the project and the second step was doing the plane of the second floor.

Here we find the main living area of the house. It is due to allow for the sweeping panoramic view of the surrounding forest it has on the north. The long window on the southern side is raised 2 meters from the level of the room because it will allow the sun to enter the room, while limiting the views to the neighbouring houses.

The material of the whole house is clad in wood. They are set in vertical larch wood planks that cover all the surfaces, including the pitched roof and the terrace.
The only exception are the windows (dark green layer) . There are only four of them in total and they are very large surfaces that 'contain' all opening and ventilation surfaces as well as all fixed glazing parts. 

Ground Floor

The first thing they worked on was in the plane of the ground floor. Working with Autocad they could draw the house as well as the furniture inside it.

The house is conceived as a standard, patio-type house, formed by two wings that 'frame' the garden area. The wings are then split into two levels, to allow for insertion of the carport under the living area (light blue lines). The usual 'split' between the living and sleeping areas of the house is reversed, so that the sleeping area occupies the ground level of the house. 

The ground floor consists of bedrooms and bathrooms for children and parents, which are formed as very small cells that can be joined together by means of series of sliding and folding panels (green rectangles inside the left part of the house).

As we can see in the plane, each colour is a different layer and each layer give us different information. For instance, the red layer define the fence, the orange layer the furniture, the pink layer the stairs, the blue delimits the walls and the dark green the openings like doors and windows.
We can see clearly the different parts from the ground floor as well as the projections of the second floor (light blue).

Introduction to House SB

Miriam and Júlia are students of first years of architecture. They are working on a project called "House SB" that is a building made by Bevk Perovic in Slovenia and in this blog they want to share with you their work and their improvements along the weeks.

This house was built in between 2002-2004 for a private client called Maja Stefula, Gasper Blejec. It is on the edges of Ljubljana where we can find low-quality single-family houses, most of them built without building permits in the 1960's. The owners bought the last available plot, a very small area (500m2), on the edge of the settlement, facing forest on the northern side. 

Enjoy it!