Relationship between the Inside and the Out

"The House Looked as if it hated the ground, with vast vanity trying to rise superior to it regardless of nature." This Frank Loyd Wright quote is used by Unwin to describe how the Villa Savoye sits in its surroundings, a stark white box floating in the natural world. Despite the fact that the house appears to be so distinct from its surroundings the occupants experience a range of levels of interaction with the outside world. While the building seems to sit in defiance of nature from external view points, inside it is clear that the natural world has been allowed to permeate into the building.

On the ground floor the weakest connection between the inside and out is felt, the servants quarters have the smallest windows and the large overhang on the first floor reduces the amount of light entering the windows. On the first floor the large ribbon windows allow a greater permeation of the the outside world into the building. The lack of a roof over the courtyard allows for still greater feeling of being outside while the large glass door which separates if from the main living area gives a smilar feeling to that room. As one moves up to the roof terrace a feeling of being completely outdoors is attained as there is no cover and only one wall to act as a boundary.

I explored ways of representing this varying relationship between inside and out using a range of drawn studies. Starting with simple silhouettes of the building showing the way it floats with in its environment moving onto more detailed sectional studies experimenting with hatching, colour and rendering as means of communicating different levels of enclosure.