Temple University Row Home Design Project
The Rome Home Design Project was assigned as a practice of interrelationships between a painting and an existing Row Home. The painting that I had chosen was called "A Mother's Duty" by Pieter de Hooch. This painting expressed many layers and presented multiple spaces that would soon have an effect on the design of my chosen Row Home. The row home I chose exists in East Philadelphia. The main goal of this project was to accurately deconstruct the interior of the row home to symbolize or portray characteristics and practices that were presented in the painting. In the painting, a back room is divided by a very interesting threshold. This "threshold would be the main theme of my project along with " A Space Within a Space". After critically studying the painting, I found focal points, hierarchy, shadow/darkness, light, and geometry to be main characteristics that were expressed in the painting. Finally study models were constructed to reflect my studies, and then a final model was made from MDF board and bass wood. The study model was made to resemble spaces within spaces and the acceptance and rejection of sunlight penetrating through the window threshold. My final model is more complex, because it reflects all of my studies from the painting. The entrance of the row home resembles the master threshold in which a gap is presented to symbolize the "jump" from realism and the painting's themes. When you enter, you are surrounded by thresholds, each of which are justified by the lighting from the front and back entrances. As you progress more "jumps" are needed to travel through the entire building. when you reach the second floor, you are taken to the exterior of the building through a window, where you jump into modular spaces that resemble both a space within a space, and thresholds until you are taken back to the interior of the third floor. Added with projects from other students in my class, a final street block was complete. The entire project resembles our exploration through the deconstruction of each of our paintings.
Abstract Chair - Made from Recovered Timber Forest Wood
Historical Philadelphia Row Home
Construction Documents
Renderings
Presentation Poster
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Art Gallery
Official Presentation
CDs
Renderings
Homeless Reserve; Logan Square, Philadelphia
CAD plan; Homeless Reserve
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Hand Rendering and Modeling
Truebek House |