POCHE' Drawings

This Section Poche was taken vertically and shows Utzon's Villa cascading gently down the hill with the slope so as to blend in with the surrounding environment. Thus revealing one of many design influences. From the entrance down to the studio it is visible that the landscape is a part of the villa.


This is a section cut taken longitudinally showing all 3 major spaces. The drawing shows different densities thus representing the major areas used as being the most dense.


This is just a progress shot of the final plan poche drawing.


In this drawing I used the space in the background with trees as it is in real life just to show how well Utzon incorporated both context and the design within the given space.

Parti Drawings 2

For Enclosure I chose to use a number of lines to represent the wall thickness for each wall in the villa. My tutor also recommended a feature similar to a colour gradient that ran from the top of the drawing down and from the left to the right. Since the drawings are only to be in ink I drew horizontal lines that were representing open and closed spaces.

Closed spaces had these lines close together and the contrary for open spaces. You'll have to see the photo in full size to see these lines.


With Circulation I forgot to read the brief and simply thought that we could represent the pathways that a person would take within this villa. I will have to draw one that involves horizontal and vertical lines only. The darker, more congested pathways are the "highways" and the lighter lines represent the lesser used areas.


This is the final drawing of the Program and the variety of textures represent different areas. I chose to do the drawing in plan view as the building is only one story high and an axonometric would show no extra information about the villa in comparison to a plan.


One last minute change was the rendering of all openings to be dark so that the different areas around them stand out.

Parti Drawings 1

Before completing the official STRUCTURE drawing, I drew a draft and with the help of both my partner and tutor I was able to recognise which walls were load-bearing and which walls weren't. There is also the addition of the columns to show the importance of the studio space that Utzon has designed for himself.


Final Structure drawing.
In the top left corner of the drawing Utzon's studio is visible. It is a space of openess, where light permeates around each opening into the interior. This is visible in the drawing as the columns do not form solid lines but parts of a wall, which are crucial in the design of this villa.


This is the original Geometry drawing that I completed. I separated the 3 main areas and used a heavier line weight to firstly show that the house is made up of these parts. Then I added in the other walls of the house using variations of lighter line weights. There is a hierarchy of line weights divided throughout the drawing starting from main areas of the villa and then moving towards important spaces.


Since the whole villa consisted of just squares and rectangles and I needed a new way of representing the drawing to show better understanding of its Geometry. Then, with the assistance of my tutor, I added a modular theme where I recognised the similar sizes and shapes of the villa and presented this as a form of "dimensioning".