The horse trainer, a powerful, ambitious, focussed man dedicated to winning and being the best while at work, yet a soft dependant man, constantly pining for his wife’s attention while at home
My original ideas in the first assignment revolved around a hierarchy of the 12 different units. Ordered from the ones which he found most important, and where he spent most of his time - the bedroom, living area and kitchen, to the units he saw as almost redundant, these were the ones in which he spent time alone, such as the tower, his study and the bathroom.
As my character moved through each separate area of the house from the front door to the back it was like a journey of evolution from his cold hard work self to his softer caring, home self.
In the first assignment I also worked with the idea of his urge to care for his wife by placing the units he most associated with her, such as the bedroom, in structurally strong surroundings with minimal fenestration and maximum protection from the outside world.
For this second assignment, each of my four houses have been similarly designed, yet structurally organised each in a different configuration. They are all connected to one another and arranged in a single line formation that bends back upon itself in all directions. The reason I decided to assemble my houses in a such a way is because it represents the daily routine my character participates in of transforming from one personality then back to the other. The last two houses in the formation circle back upon each other showing that it is a lifelong continuous cycle.
The walls towards the front of each house are heavily fenestrated, and like assignment one these contain the rooms in which my character spends time alone, rooms he sees as being less important and therefore less enclosed and protected. I designed the windows as strips continuing up the walls and at some points right across the roof, they are set back into the concrete and make the walls apper to be fingers wrapped around a single glass panel, again working with the idea of protection of his wife.
At the highest and most extreme points of each house is located the bedroom, for my character this is the room he sees as most important, it is where he spends most of the time with his wife and for all four houses this is on the third level.
The actual site itself is left open to the public, a public park, it is mostly covered in grass with some vegetation covering the windows of the more private areas (bathrooms) that are situated on the ground level. The reason for making it a public space was because I imagined it to be in the centre of a heavily populated town and because so much of the structure is off of the ground and there is so much vacant ground space I figured it was a bit greedy to enclose this prime spec of ‘nature’.
