Tablinum

these are my measurements
this will come in handy when assessing the relationship between the space and myself

Tablinum

Tablinum – (living room or study) “A tablinum (or tabulinum, from tabula, board, picture) was a room generally situated on one side of the atrium and opposite to the entrance of a Roman dwelling; it opened in the rear on to the peristyle, with either a large window or only an anteroom or curtain… The tablinum was the office in a Roman house, the father's centre for business.”1
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablinum

Objectives

Analyse how the dimensions of the human body relate to design and how objects of everyday use structure, define and order design.

Develop skills in the shaping, containing and defining of minimal space,

Explore placing activities and motion in space, generation of space and its geometric aspects, and the relationships between body, object and space.

Explore anthropometric geometry as a generator of form; the relationship of human dimensions to the size, shape and proportion of a single minimal, living space,.

Explore the role of furniture, enclosure and functional criteria in shaping space.

Site-atrium, opposite library on third floor of architecture building

This is an introduction into body-space-form architecture

I chose this site as it was very quiet compared to other parts of the atrium. There’s very few “busy” periods where many people are passing through. After the tutor pointed out that the roof is impossible to place as initially thought I would have to rethink the roof as I am a private person and would still want a roof as people would see from the fourth floor.

Feedback from tutor:-

• Good overall design
• Very basic and fulfilled the design brief
• Well justified for location of tablinum
• Not possible to use concrete blocks as roof without complete reinforcements
• Very different from others, very enclosed compared to others open and place in semi-public areas