Habiba Elnagdy Professor Matt Burgermaster Professor Mark Rakatansky Theories of Architecture 11 March, 2022 Nomad House by Rick Joy After this week's reading, specifically inspired by the statement that "the physical production of detail is also found in the mental production", I went back to look at details in my case study that had to have been started during the mental production stage. The landscape surrounding the site provides dramatic perspectives and so I focused on the orientation of each square volume and their functions. After studying the views of the surroundings and the possible orientations to achieve a greater climate control, the program of the house was divided into three boxes of serene cuboid geometry. Each primary space —living, bedroom and small den—is intentionally oriented toward a singular view. The main social spaces open up to the southwest in the afternoon, the lights of dusk accentuate the craggy rock hills of the surroundings and as night falls the city lights of Tucson emerge. For my representational analysis, I chose to make a GIF playing around with the orientation of each square volume. I did so by simply rotating all three volumes at a 20 degrees angle for each GIF frame.
