1. MODULE 4 – Planning your House
Module Contents:
MODULE 4 – Planning your House
•Thresholds
•Which Rooms go Where?
•Getting from One Floor to Another

3. To read more about Charles Moore: CLICK HERE

4. Sea Ranch Condominium 1 – Charles Moore and partners
Sea Ranch Condominium 1 – Charles Moore and partners. Sonoma, California 1965.

5. “Principle 1: If we are to devote our lives to making buildings, we have to believe that they are worth it, that they live and speak (of themselves, and the people who made them and thus inhabit them), and can receive investments of energy and care from their inhabitants, and can store those investments, and return them augmented, bread cast on water come back as club sandwiches.”
Want more on Moore’s design philosophy? CLICK HERE!

6. Let’s make two lists: one for ‘public’ spaces
Which Rooms go Where?
Let’s make two lists: one for ‘public’ spaces
and one for ‘private’ spaces
THINK ABOUT:
Public Space vs. Family Space Family Space vs. Individual (private) Space Dining Room vs. Kitchen Living Room vs. Dining Room Entrances vs. Living Room Bedroom vs. Washrooms Entertaining vs. Washrooms

7. Go on Pinterest and type in: Small House Plans
  Room
Minimum Size
Living Room
14'x20' (4.27m x 6.1m)
Dining Room
12'x13' (3.65m x 3.96m)
Bedroom, Master
14'x14' (4.27m x 4.27m)
Bedroom, Other
10'x12' (3.05m x 3.65m)
Kitchen
8'x12' (2.43m x 3.65m)
Bathroom
5.5'x8' (1.67m x 2.43m)
Computer Nook
6'x6' (1.83m x 1.83m)
Home Office
8'x10' (2.43m x 3.05m)
Hall Width
3.5' (1.06m)
Closet
2'x4' (0.61m x 1.22m)
Walk-in Closet
4'x6' (1.22m x 1.83m)
Porch
Patio
16'x20' (4.88m x 6.1m)
Garage, Single
12'x20' (3.65m x 6.1m)
Garage, Double
20'x20' (6.1m x 6.1m)
Garage Door, Single
9'x7' (2.74m x 2.13m)
Garage Door, Double
16'x7' (4.88m x 2.13m)
Which Rooms go Where?
The following chart gives you approximate sizes for the rooms in your house. The can be a bit smaller or larger, but keep in mind that you want each room to be efficient and effective in its usage of space.
For this project err on the side of smaller spaces for the rooms – our site is small and you’re designing a modest house.
Go on Pinterest and type in:
Small House Plans
(Use them for inspiration! Don’t copy them!!)

8. What separates inside from outside is known as a threshold.
Thresholds – Mediating Inside and Outside
What separates inside from outside is known as a threshold.
A threshold is that important space that is neither inside, nor outside, but it is in-between.
For your house, one of the key thresholds is the porch. Each of you MUST have a porch as part of your design.
Think about what activities happen on a porch?
Why would it be a good idea to have a roof over your porch?
Which materials are porches made of?

9. Look for different styles, sizes, materials, activities, etc.
Thresholds – Mediating Inside and Outside
Exercise: With a partner, find 5 images of houses with porches. Try to find the biggest variation possible.
Look for different styles, sizes, materials, activities, etc.
Upload them to our SLATE discussion page – let’s see if this works! Ahhhh…. If not, I’m not sure what
NEXT: add a porch to your Bubble Diagram and beside it, sketch a quick axonometric drawing of your porch in your sketchbook. Show your professor for your in-class checkmark.

10. (i.e. halls, stairs, lanes of travel inside rooms).
Hallways
Circulation: relates to the patterns of traffic between rooms and spaces
(i.e. halls, stairs, lanes of travel inside rooms).
Let’s discuss strategies used to maximize the efficiency of circulation.
Enclosure: refers to the physical separation, or lack of separation, of spaces between each other and between themselves and the outside world.
Identify how enclosure effects adjacencies and circulation.
Identify which spaces require enclosure.
Identify which spaces may not benefit from enclosure.
Describe several methods of enclosing a space.

11. Hallways
Exercise: 
Using trace paper over your site plan, draw your preliminary bubble diagram of the main floor of the home for your final project.
Next, add another piece of trace paper on top and draw adjancencies, circulation spaces and any enclosures used – 5 minutes.
Review the bubble diagram of your house with the person sitting next to you – 6 minutes
Swap plans with that person and with another piece of trace paper on top of their work, recommend one or two changes that would improve their plan.

12. Getting from One Floor to Another
In teams sketch a stair type on the board, as selected by your instructor, and using your copy of the OBC, annotate the following information:
Width of stairs
Minimum/Maximum Rise
Minimum/Maximum Tread
Handrail requirements
Guard requirements
Landing requirements
Nosing?
Finishes?
Show your dimensions and imagine that you floor to floor height is 9’6”.
What about a basement stair? Is there anything different about it?

13. A few reminders:
Module 4 – Various articles from Fine Homebuilding Magazine…
TIPS on how to design:
Entrances
Living Rooms
Kitchens and Bathrooms
Master Baths
Decks
Room Transitions
Any questions for Assignment 1?
It’s due Wednesday at 8:30am.
ALSO!! DOWNLOAD SKETCH UP for Wednesday!!