Rennovation Project
37 Bulwer St
This school project was for a hypothetical couple client. The husband is a mathematician and who is also a professor. This project was to design for the physically impaired - and the professor had lost his sight. He wanted to live in a comfortable, easy-navigating home with his wife and pet dog. The project allowed me to use two floors of space, or extend the first floor with the help of an empty parking lot that located to the buildings west side.
Concept
A physically impaired blind man, who can partially see light and colour, needs a home in which is easy to coordinate in. He has to come home, know where to hang his coat, set his keys, take off his shoes, and guide himself straight into bed after a long productive day.
I decided that the easiest way for him to guide himself through is house is if he just used different applications of simple mathematical equations. With different combinations of y=mx+b (equation of a line), x^2 + y^2 = r^2 (equation of a circle), he can guide himself through the one storey space with little to no difficulty. These combinations can be found in path of the floor plan and lighting and contrast of colour differentiating and separating space. This design also considered the professor's wife, who doesn't want to feel like she has to live in a custom made home solely based on her husbands impairment.
Planning
Incorporating concept into spacial planning.
The spacial boundaries that we were able to renovate in this project was two stories, and to add an additional part to the building using the parking located on the west side of the building. I decided to illuminate the second floor all together in order to make the home one storey. This will help the impaired man guide himself better in less space, while his wife still lives comfortably and unrestricted. The main entrance brings you into a hallway, which takes you into the powder room and a coat closet. Also, this small apartment is open concept, where the kitchen is open to the dining room and living room and the backyard. There is only one bedroom to accommodate for the mathematician and his wife, giving them a walk-in closet with no doors and a full bathroom. Each room doesn't have too much space, and all the furniture are layed out according on a x/y graph with the basic equations of a sloped line, parabola, circle, and linear lines.
