Sunday, April 22, 2007

DOMUS - CLIMATE INVESTIGATION

Investigations of Pros and Cons of the selected climate zone for a dwelling can help identify recurring themes associated with the environment. For the Domus Project, Aletha, Amy and Catherine have teamed up and the results of their preliminary climate investigation follows:Recurring themes identified by the brainstorming shown above include: Thermal Massing (to cope with swaying diurnal temperatures experienced in hot/dry climates; Filtering of Light; Framing of Views and Protection from Wind and Sun.

1 comment:

bushTucker said...

The diagram of your brainstorming session is a good record of design process - but it would be much better and far more useful to you if you illustrated it with thumb-nails. This would give architectural expression to the approaches you suggest.

Richard