Model~! ...and material for the design...

A Room with a Courtyard for a Moderate Man Interested in Wine Tasting and Collecting.

In Kyoto where surrounds by Cherry Trees.

Showing the whole model

Model, 1:75

The materials for this design are :

• White colour concrete for the whole building (Exterior & interior walls, corridor's floor and roof) [Balsa]
• White Stone for the flooring of the courtyard. [sand]
• Glass for fixed window/glazing
• Tiles for the floor of the room [marked balsa]
• Glass shelve for wine storage
• (Cherry trees are made with balsa and wool painted in pink with acrylic)

The model does not have the trees in the courtyard because they will distract the view of the building( especially the gap and the entrance) so I decided to show them in plan.

On the other hand, it is hard to show the material of courtyard's floor since it's covered with small white stones so I show it in the model and it also distinguish the boundary of the design and its surrounding.

The slit of sunlight in the room with the site outside

The room, the slit and the shelve for wine

The room, how the slit of sunlight should like when it has roof (completely dark)

The room, the shelves

The room, the door and its thickness(o.5m)/ its decorum

The relationship of the corridor and the room with light coming in from the courtyard

The corridor and the stairs

End of Model's Photographs

Explanation for the flooring of the courtyard

(didn't write up there so this does not distract the flow of model's photographs)

I have repeated many times that this is a room(courtyard) that protects and keeps the man inside his own world.

The small white stones have been used by the Japanese for their courtyard's floor.

Especially for the samurai's(warrior) residence.

The reason why they bother to put another layer of stone over the soil is because the small white stones will create noises when people walks on them.

This alerts the samurai when there is strangers step into their territory. E.g. Ninja

Therefore I apply small white stones for the flooring of the courtyard not just for distinguishing the territory, interacting with the white concrete exterior walls but also alert the man when someone distracts his world.