-: Part C: Cabin Drawings

MY CABIN DESIGN

This design is a reproduction of Tom Kumdig's Chicken Point Cabin. My design brings together Tom's concepts and ideas but not only from Chicken Point but from his other cabin designs.

Tom's idea of a central fireplace, which brought together the spaces and the people, was also used in my design. Instead of using a fireplace, which is not really climatic in Brisbane, I replaced it with a native, paperbark tree. . The tree also sits in the middle of a courtyard, linking the human activities of the living space and the main bedroom.

Tom Kundig's concept of the huge window at the south of his design, was also used in my design. However due to the size of the required cabin, it is much smaller but still gives a delightful experince on the occupants. This window in my design is sitting north to take advantage of the pervailing breeze and needed light. Some horizontal panels were added just above the window, so that the living space didn't turn into a sauna during the middle of the day, acting as an evironmental filter. The roof line also achieves this effect.

The roof line is taken from not only Chicken Point but other designs of Tom Kundig's. The angled roof opens up more to the environment of the lake and the forest. Glass louvers occupy the space in between walls and ceiling, to help ventilate the spaces. These louvers also lets more light into the spaces, such as the studio, living space and main bedroom.

The arrangement of the spaces in my design are also similar to that of Tom's floor plans. They open up to each other around the living space, which links to the lake and the forest. Views of the lake are seen from most of the spaces in the cabin. The living space, with the use of the huge window, opens up to the environment elements. These two concepts bring together the effect of inside-outside spaces which causes the occupants to experience the both environments.

Tom Kundig's design was mainly built using concrete, wood, metal and glass, to form an industrial style throughout the cabin. I took this idea into my design as much as I could. I used concrete for structure on the west side of the building, but wasn't able to continue with it anywhere else due to the climate of the region, instead the east side of my cabin is wooden cladding.

The coutyard, linking the living space and the main bedroom has a series of vertical panels to disguise the view of the lake. This concept was not linked in anyway to Kundig's designs. It was a concept I took on, because I believed that a different approach was needed in order to provide a greater varity of delight. The arrangement of these panels are shown in the drawings below.