Designing a Contemporary Rural Home on the Highlands of Balaton
reimagining & uniting three existing building parts
At a late summer camp getting to know the nature around us
Task 1: Discover the surroundings
My photo colletion
Task2: Choose an artist for inspirations
My photo montage of László Moholy- Nagy & the building
- His works inspired interiors as seen in small referential pictures on all moodboards
- I also applied constructivism style at designing interiors by his ingenuity
Task3: Build imaginary characters from papercuts of magazines
and create their characteristics by calling words
For Music & mood Inspiration
Image montage of the couple who to design the living / working space for
Fictional story of theirs:
They have met in New Mexico, at a wellness retreat to cure their 'burnt out stage' in life. And after living together for three years in California have decided to move to the Highlands of Balaton, Káli - basin and purchased this lot where they wish to settle
Steve Tünde
San Diego, California Szentgál, Káli- medence, Hungary
Computer scientist Cultural anthropologyst
High tech Natural
Modern minimal Modern ethno
Wellness Spiritual
Remote, flexible working Endemic healing practices
Conscious
Wellbeing
Contemporary
Local
Paper cuts for initial furnishing inspiration
Colours & textures
Original floorplan of 3 separate buildings in Zánka
that currently hosts a small cafe & meeting/training rooms introducing the local flora
Challange:
How to create a home from three separate, smallish buildings?
Use (de)constructivism style / Natural & native motives & materials / Be up to date / Glocal
See my concept unfolding below:
Interior (walls) demolishing plan
Interior & exterior objects building plan
Explanation:
- Developed the front of the (left part of the) building into a shop & workshop area for Tünde
(currently these two front openings are fixed, not in use, I placed an entrance door here)
- Designed an infinity pool for first impression at arrivals to the private area of the house
by demolishing the oversized second stairs leading to the small back garden & basement level (see original plan)
- The other stairs through the large terrace are providing acces to the back garden
- Inspirations for the lines & angles of walls & structures are coming from:
how the windows are pulled back from the facade into the thickness of the walls designed by the architect
- Made me playing with the movements of constructivism / deconstructivism at the design
Funcional floorplan & sectional view of the pool area
pencil drawings
How to create a home from 3 separate building parts?
See it in colours below:
- Creating an ante- room:
I connected the two parts of the formerly separate buildings
with the smallest intervention of construction in to the original structures: placing wide
double doors here
- Kitchen: The covered, triangle shaped terrace got large doors filling up the
gaps between the coloums, providing access to the large terrace
- Sweat lodge: with a light adobe structure is build for personal wellness as requested
- Stargazing platform: is created to fulfill a hobby & the desire of starry nights
- Living area: is opened up to permit acces to both terraces & the pool,
not solely via the ante- room
At the separate rectangle shaped building part:(see on the left)
- Shop / Workshop's front opened up to public functions
- Acces to downstairs: where the Atelier is for flower processing & packaging,
storing products
- Home office & Library + Gym are on the first floor used by the couple :
for mental, spiritual & physical fittness
- These functions fit well to be slightly separated from the main living areas.
Detached & connected by the pool
Water coloured new floorplan of in- outdoor areas
+ Bonus Task4: Suggest & think about indoor plants & landscaping matching concepts
Shop / workshop area
- Where Bach-remedy & Fito-therapical products could be bought & lectures are hold
- References to folk motives: are custom designed displays for products
- A podium is made for sitting audience
- Natural materials are used to reflect product philosopy
- Locally sourced materials are in focus
Gym / Study / Library
- Mind & body wellness
- Multifunctional desk to lounge bed furniture
- Orthopedic office chair for best posture
- Local & contemorary designer accesories
- A joining bathroom is created for practical reasons to refresh
Aquarelle 3D view
Basement
Storage / Changing room / Atelier / Mini kitchen / Acces to outdoors
back support for processing local herbal products with all required functions
references to the countryside + local contemporary designers & sustainability
Foldable no screw ply tables / 'Puli dog' Easy chairs / Custom designed curtains
Playful objets recalling Moholy- Nagy's Photogramm collection / Custom curtain design
Custom bedding & curtains design
Felt pen techniques perspective of the bedroom & glimps into the bath
Typical country beehive oven silhouettes in an unexpected place
hides laundry room and toilets
Experimenting in mixed techniques / raw cg visual of the Bathroom
Playful objects as furnishing following Moholy-Nagy' s experimental play on shapes
Smooth loops softening radically coloured roof rafters
California / Kali Yuga / Káli- medence
Outdoors
Infinity pool & view in focus / Brute, stripped back, upcycled furnishing materials / Native plants
Kitchen is created at the place of the former unused corner of the terrace
- Focus on local material & design as much as possible
- A deconstructed table continues outdoor only separated by glass indoors
- LED digital candle light chandelier sets mood from high-tech to ancient ambiance
- No metal fixtures plywood chair, upcycled woven chair & rug recalling local
craftmanship
- At a triangle edge with south-west facing large glass surface: 'sun room' is made
for indoor herb garden
Red sandstone wall / Lime wash wall / Poppy resin backsplash by Viaplant Hungary
Sacral herbs garden around the Sweat lodge
Outdoors
nature's analogy to brute concrete furniture & Moholy's art
Custom pattern design for table linen / Functional draving of the sweat lodge
made it with dry brush technique
Raw architectural visuals / Stargaze deck sketch
My first sketch at the summer camp László Moholy- Nagy
recognizing title:
figurative floorplan & (C)Kali connections Construction
leaded coincidentally towards research into Moholy- Nagy artworks
from constructivism to photograms in dark & light, shapes & colours
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Former interior moods inspired by
Chamomile harvesting tools - Attic analogy / Cornflower & Wheatfield Anna Szőnyi Boomerang bench
Former inspirations: (de)constructivism / Light-space modulator of Moholy -Nagy
Former inspirations: (de)constructivism & poppy for dining room / Outdoors mood
Raw visuals of the Bathroom
Raw visuals Shop / workshop area & Study, library & gym
