Meta Idea
The meta idea for this project was
a swimmers arm. Since the owners had stated that they wanted the extension of
the house to have a water/swimming theme, I chose to use a swimmers arm mid
stroke to be my inspiration.
As seen in the picture, the concept of the arm’s muscles
being curved but also decreasing in size the further they got from the body,
which would be the main structure I use to design the extension. I use the
original house as the body and had the extension, or arm, coming off to one side
and decreasing in size the further it got from the house. That is also why
there are stairs at the end of the extension, to represent a swimmer’s hand
facing inward as it’s about to enter the water. The last part of the addition
was the pool, this was to pull together the whole swimmer’s arm idea by having
the extension and stair face it, as if it was about to enter it.
Jose Solorzano