Home Extension Design: Transform a Living Space

X Designing an Extension for your House

“Welcome to the "Final Project" section and thank you so much for taking this course with us. We hope that you enjoyed all our classes as much as we did! We are now going to show you how to share each step of your final project with the whole community. Start by choosing the site of the project. Is it an external extension or an internal addition that transforms an apartment or flat? What kind of place is it? What is it built from? What is the atmosphere? What is good/bad about it? Tell us your initial thoughts! Then, play the game with your client! Don’t have a fixed idea about how this will go: let it flow and don’t aim for a particular outcome. Sometimes the best thing is when it goes off-script. Simply collect as much information as you can!

Once you have done that, prepare the brief! Share it with the community. After that, you need to set out your constraints and opportunities. Research the area around the site including historic maps and images. Tell us about what you found out and share any diagram you might have created. It's time for the fun and hard bit: coming up with options. Start at a small scale like 1:100 and then go bigger. Think about overall ideas and concepts and start sketching them out, always being aware of the brief and your constraints. Keep going, you should end up with lots of potential ideas. Once you have drawn up the plans, you can start to sketch some visuals. Do this by hand or on the computer. Do what’s familiar and easy to you and you think best represents your ideas. Now, you can bring together some precedent ideas and material samples for the presentation document. Be imaginative but thoughtful. Finally, bring everything together into a single document like the one we share with you in the previous unit. Upload your PDF! Good luck with the project! It’s a lot to take in but a really exciting project to prepare and we hope you enjoy doing it. Remember: always think about who’s going to be living there but be playful and inventive. Don't forget to comment on other people's work on the forum and give constructive feedback to help them improve. Thank you so much again for taking the time to come on this course with us! We can’t wait to see what you come up with! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Congratulations on reaching the end of designing an extension to your house course. You've achieved so much and we thank you for taking this journey with us and learning about what we truly love to do. We began this course by learning about what we do and what an extension is, our own unique and personal approach to projects, and also about measurements and proportions. Remember, a good tip is if you're ever unsure about anything, measure it out against your body or within your own home. We then began work on our final project using Cork House as an example. The first thing we...”

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Course summary for: Home Extension Design: Transform a Living Space

• Level: Beginner
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• 646 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 48m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Architecture & Spaces

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Architecture, ArchVIZ, Interior Architecture, Interior Decoration, Interior Design