PROGRAM :-
a) Showroom
b) Prototype room or assembly room
c) Welding or metal work room
d) Coffee shop attached to the
showroom and assembly room
d) Home office
e) Storage
e) Home, living space over looking the ocean,
well-lit two bedroom apartment with enough
circulation to entertain their busy social
lives. Clean crisp interiors.
First tenant : Restaurateur
Second tenant : Gallery owner
CLIENTS :-
Clients are a middle aged couple. Husbands a
sculptor and artist, wife is also an artist and a designer, revamps old pieces of furniture and discarded scrap into beautiful and
functional furniture or sculptures. They design revamped lighting, light to medium sized sculptures, paintings, artsy furniture pieces. Basically they're a pretty innovative couple. Their target market are real-estate owners, home owners, tourists. Over the years they've developed a clientèle and a fan following. To develop a clientèle and to spark interest into new clients they want a very open interior of their work space, one which is people friendly and is designed to incorporate Professional observers and potential clients. They finish some of the bigger pieces at their warehouse outside the city and do smaller pieces and prototypes in this place. So the work place will have a little coffee shop, to entertain the people coming to look at them while working.
MULTI-USAGE BUILDING : RESIDENCE AND WORK-SPACE
CONCEPT STATEMENT
Light will be a key element in defining various functional and aesthetic spaces in this design. The idea will be to create Interesting interactions of light with texture and masses all the while keeping in mind the aesthetics quality of spaces and the function they serve.
ACTUAL LIVE MODEL MADE OUT OF
LED LIGHTS, FOAM BOARD AND
PLASTIC, OF THE LIGHT BOX FOR
CAFE BAR
FRONT ENTRYWAY
SCULPTURE SHOWROOM PHYSICAL MODEL
BUILDING MODEL