My house is located within The Hills district in the suburb of Cherrybrook. This area is known to attract families with children due to the availability of schools and services around. I moved into my house 8 years ago for this reason but of course, as time has gone on, myself and other children within my street have aged and are now driving cars. My once quite street now has become a carpark! This was the problem i looked to address in the workshop by proposing an extension on my existing house so that i could have my own garage for my car. I therefore began the session with making a 1:100 scale model of the south side of my existing house and then combining this with an image of my house to keep in mind the context in which my design would unfold.
Through selective removal as my strategy for the transformation, I completely ripped the existing garage off my house. This allowed me to work with a blank canvas so i could extend the area of my house and in doing so, create a new roof line. The roof i came up with was inspired by a Peter Eisenman Arch with beams that allowed more light and ventilation into the existing spaces.
The modeling workshop helped me to understand how effective a model can be in portraying a sense of form and space and the importance of physical model making in communicating ideas with a tangible quality. I also found it interesting to see the level of opportunity that can arise from making models and how this can have a major impact in the design process. Most importantly though, it encourage me to use my imagination and understand how i can embrace models as a innovative design tool to be creative in three dimensions which previously i was quite foreign to.
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