Part B: Bamboo Wall House Analysis - Diagram

The diagrams below are to identify and extrapolate the three Key Design Elements within my Exemplar House - the Great Bamboo Wall, which represent my Architect's Approach to 'Delight', 'Commodity' and 'Firmness' in design.

'Delight' in Design, how the Great Bamboo Wall acts as a 'Delightful Experience'.

The Great Wall historically partitioned off two cultures, but this bamboo wall not only demarcates but also unites like and culture.  Skin of Bamboo, Spirit of Bamboo in Japan there is a famous children's tale about how Princess Kakuyahime, the Moon Goddess, was born inside a stalk of bamboo.  People could believe this story because bamboo has a special skin, and a soul. [1]

'Firmness' in Design, in Design, how the Great Bamboo Wall acts as an 'Environmental Filter'.

The main idea of the Great Bamboo Wall was to learn from the formality of the Great Wall of China - runs almost endlessly along the undulating ridgeline, and is integrated into the surrounding environment.[1]

'Commodity' in Design, how the Great Bamboo Wall acts as a 'Container of Human Activities'.

Approaching the Space (circulation)

Function of Space

Part C : Application - Cabin Design

The proposed Cabin Design for my Exemplar Architect - Kengo Kuma.

Ground Level Floor Plan

First Level Floor Plan

Section 1

North Elevation

Exterior Volumetric Representation

Part C : Application - Idea + Analysis

Delight : separates a truly well-designed house from the medicore. 


My approach to 'Delight' in Design and how this house acts as a 'delightful Experience'.  The following diagrams are to identify and overlay the three design elements in my proposed cabin design.

Locating a bamboo wall, a layer of wall, is an important issue to 'Delight' in Design.

Spaces created with bamboo are steeped in a feeling of tension, a unique sense of the stretched presence of the bamboo skin.  Just sitting inside such places, the soul is in a different state of being.  Furthermore, skin and outer surface are different things.  Concrete has an outer surface, but no skin.  The soul within is never revealed.  However, bamboo has particularly beautiful skin and a soul residing within.  The role of this delicate, highly functional bamboo screen/wall is to facilitate the interaction of the natural world inside the structure with the natural world on the outside.  Through the skin, the natural world on the outside filters into the natural world on the inside. 

  


Commodity : A design to fit my Exemplar Architect's practical meeds.


'Commodity' in Design and how my Cabin acts as a 'Container of Human Activities'. 

My Cabin is  75m²  in total for internal enclosed space.  Also, a  36m²  covered external space is provided in addition.  Indeed, the design includes the following spaces :

• space for living;
• space for working;
• space for reflecting;
• space for dining;
• space for preparing meals;
• space for sleeping; and 
• space for abluting.

My proposed Cabin is designed to accommodate my Exemplar Architect and his partner only - no additional accommodation for other members of the family or friends is to be provided.

Approaching the Space (circulation)

Function of Space

Firmness : A design to conform to all pragmatic requirements such as structural, electrical + environmental soundness.


Mu approach to 'Firmness' in Design and how my cabin acts as an 'Environmental Filter'. The following diagrams are to identify and overlay the three design elements in my proposed cabin design.

My Cabin design not only consists of systematic design logic, but also is a climatic filter, the above picture explains.