Week 7

Part 1:
Do some research on your selected architect / artist / designer to determine what they might look for in the design of a home for themselves. Can you find any information on family? What about their cultural roots? What can you say about their design style? Think through these and other questions and write up a section on your blog that defines how this person would define their needs and desires in a home.If it is a company you are using as your research topic, treat them as a person...  If there is no family that you can identify, then you are defining a bachelor pad....

Santiago Calatrava was born on 1951 in the Benimamet, near Valencia, Spain. Calatrava is an aristocratic name, passed down from a medieval order of knights. Santiago’s family on both sides was engaged in the agricultural export business, which gave them an international outlook that was rare during the Franco dictatorship.

Part 2:
Put together a brief. Remember that in this document you must define not only what you want (as the client) but why. In this circumstance your brief must be capable of being understood by your architect without you there to explain it, so it should include not only a  list of explanations about room sizes, but also how they will be used, how your family interacts in the home, how you entertain, how you like to work in the kitchen and other general living spaces, etc. A document of this nature will run to at least 4 pages of material combining the lists of spaces and the explanation of those spaces. Also be sure that you explain the architectural style that you want for your home, and include images that help to explain what you are after.

Client
The Client would like the house design to have an artistic, sculptural and abstract look to the building and creating an architectural/structural engineered feeling to the design.

• -          There’s no limits in terms of cost
• -          Abstract and empirical
• -          Art, engineering and architecture
• -          Materials steel metals, concrete and glass.
• -          Zurich, Valencia, new York offices.
• -          Been to paris Switzerland new York
• -          Born Spanish sculptor
• -           urban part of Valencia, Spain
• -          post-graduate course in urbanism.
• -          two books on the vernacular architecture of Valencia and Ibiza
• -          simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.
• -          Building with good circulation, very practical, natural.

Rooms

Master Bedroom with ensuite and walk-in wardrobe
3 Bedroom
Bathroom for bedrooms
Kitchen with island
Dining room
Guest toilet
Family with fireplace
Study/studio /Gallery
Swimming pool
Laundry
3 Garage