House Design

The design chosen was created by the groups Visual Designer Ryan Briggs, who completed a seperate project in a previous course. The design was taken and developed by our team of architects.The house was developed around a small family. Three bedrooms, a bathroom and several living and out door spaces.

The design took advantage from the ocean views to the south with large curtain walls and a curved decking structures. The deck steps down to make a large outdoor entertaining space which connects to a water source.

Internally the design is very open with a large living/kitchen area, this is achieved by exposing the roofing structure and extending the height of the roof. Internal decking creates a walkway between different areas of the house and separates the connection between outside and inside. An indoor garden space with a careful selection ferns and creeper foliage and with an open ceiling creates an outdoor void between the house and the bathhouse/ bathroom.

Externally to the north of the house is a sunken outdoor entertaining space with custom tiled flooring. This is screened by curved feature wall and takes full advantage from the northern sun line.The two children bedroom and places on the opposite end from the master bedroom and have there own decking structure. This was chosen to maximize privacy.

Please scroll down to see several rendered images from the design.

Group

Ryan Briggs - Visual Designer

Andy Carson - Web Site Development

Kate Endacott - Architect/Landscape

Hayley Pryor - Project Manager

Stephen Wolf - Architect

Collective reflection of BIM

Using BIM has obvious advantages in collaboration and utilising specialist design roles but as we learnt early on this can also be its major weakness as it has the potential to effect more peoples workflow. Using one master file can mean a total stop in productivity if access to the system becomes compromised.

Whilst BIM is obviously an effective tool we it is only as effective as the level of communication in a work group. With poor communication between group members it would be easy to double up on work, or being entirely unaware of alterations being made either good or bad. As a group we always relayed any issues or progress being made so we were generally up to date on the project status and could work systematically through the project. This high level of communication, both through the blog and our emails proved essential to the success of BIM and in many ways this structure forces an equally shared collaborative outcome. 

-CCA Architects (collective)

Presentation Renderings

Please scroll down to see the 10 rendered images below