LIVE X WORK HOUSING
Small business need flexible spaces of a variety of sizes in order to suit the work being done. Located on a small site in the neighborhood of Franklinton, Columbus; Live x Work housing explores the relationship of live and work. The surrounding buildings are two-stories and is close proximity to downtown Columbus. In Franklinton, the number of small businesses is rapidly increasing. Most of these business are run from the home, so what kind of space does a growing small business need?
Starting with the iconic house, the house becomes the Live module since it is regularly associated with the home. When investigating what work is, work is usually associated with an office building. In the design process, since live and work are so closely related in a small business, the iconic Live begins to transform into the iconic work. Through developing this idea using principles from the transformation of a chair, eight, unique buildings are created with spaces that are particular to each level of a small business.
YEAR:
U.G. 3
SEMESTER:
SPRING 2018
PROFESSOR:
BETH BOLSTEIN
AXONOMETRIC
live to work
The Live form has a Work form embedded in it and the Work begins to transform to a more iconic form of an office building with a curtain wall. As the buildings progress from Live to Work, the Live form gets smaller while the Work form becomes larger and dematerializes though the progression. The dematerialization occurs through the brick motif being replicated on all the Work areas.
TRANSFORMATION OF PLAN
The series begins with a house with just a small office to a house with half live, half work, to a building with a small live and large work. As the live areas get smaller they change from a house to just a kitchen and a bathroom- qualities of the live. As the work becomes larger, the work goes from an singular office to a large open space. The building that completes the series is designed for a small business that has moved on from being operated in the home.
The concepts from Transformation of a Chair are represented with the idea of front vs. back since the back of the buildings maintain the iconic house shape while the front is transforming. The idea of 2D vs. 3D is seen because when viewed from the front the facades are only being transformed but when viewed from the side the facades are being pulled forward, similar to the chairs rotation.
PLANS
SECTION
TRANSFORMATION OF A CHAIR
The design process of Live x Work began with a transformation to a chair. Using an iconic, clip-art, chair image, the chair was designed and constructed to look like a 2D chair from the front but is actually 3D. This was accomplished through a diamond shaped pattern on the backrest of the chair transforming to a rectangular pattern as it reaches the front of the chair. From there, the rectangular shapes begin to dissolve the edge of the chair and pull backwards towards the back to become the armrest of the chair. These principles were then used in transforming the Live x Work.