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Kitchen Remodel 06
Joe T. Berardi
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- We currently live in a 1927 Craftsman house. Recently completed a total kitchen remodel, a complete gut to the studs and build out with our own two hands. Our family consists of three cats: Shrimpy, Cocktail and Diesel. My fiancee, Missy, also graduated in architecture from Ohio State. She recently passed the LEED AP exam and has several active green building projects through her firm, WD Partners. An interesting quote from Renzo Piano during an interview with Archinect: "I think it important to note the difference between style and coherence. If you're talking coherence, I love it. If you're talking about style, then I start to wonder."
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With a circulation pattern like this, you could tilt your floor plates, or even step your floor plates. So that while you are circulating, you always have direct access to the product. In our business (read: when we work together, yeah!!) our clients tend to measure circulation vs. usable space and call that effeciency. With such a large amount of space taken up by the stair and the volume neccesary for the clearances, you are losing effeciency, (not that you need it in this project) but it is something to think about. So... to regain that efficiency make the floors follow the stairs, is a spiral... hmmm.... spiral.... damn!
How do the thick walls (the green ones in this rendering) play into the idea of the open center space? I think there should be some sort of interstitial space within the green - maybe it is really condensed space or dark, making the transition from floor/circulation to open center space that much more exciting. Perhaps program can be inside - but I really like the idea of the green wall as this massive threshold marking the spaces.
Very compelling perspectives. However you need to stop dealing with the volumes as thin transparent surfaces. You are still dealing with the massing of the elements - which I think is well worked out, but you need to progress from organizational issues to architectural issues. At a very basic level, what is opaque vs. translucent vs. transparent. Adding that level of detail to the images will alter them drastically.
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