Part A

All drawings for part A are 1:50 on final presentation layout. I have chosen to focus on the concept of skins within the kitchen area of the Gehry Residence.

Ground floor plan

Shows the relationship between the skins of the existing building and Gehry's addition. Certain cuts in the new skin have been added as the previously exterior windows become interior windows and provide new opportunities to allow light to penetrate through the building according to sun paths.

The south wall of both the exterior and interior being stripped back to its studs not only reinforces Gehry's deconstructionist ideals, but also allows southerly light to flow through the building. 

The addition of the new skin creates an ambiguity between interior and exterior areas as it is not as clearly defined as a space as the existing building (timber structure, dutch colonial). Despite being interior, it creates an interstitial area through the use of scrapyard, rough, construction materials (steel, exposed timber framework, chain-link fence), and its sense of incompletion.

Section

Shows the existing building's skin as an elevation and reveals the exposed timber structure which contributes to the sense of incompletion and perpetual construction of Gehry's added area.

Elevation

Shows the new skin in relation to the old skin and how it appears to hug around the building, encasing the traditional build in Gehry's ideals.