The progressions onwards from my first 3 years at university has begun, and immediately the competition for everything in the ‘real world’ becomes evident. The competition for jobs, architecture related or otherwise, is huge. And from the recent experience I’ve had in moving house, the competition for homes is massive. And then of course there are actual competitions, design and architecture competitions. Its surprising difficult to find a competition that seem to fit me. I want to flex my architectural knowledge and skills, but seem to only come across large international competitions, from which previous winners have been fully fledged professionals working in practice. I long to have the time, and resources, that are available to these people, and it is my intention when I eventually become an architect to enter many competitions. But for now it seems that I may have to continue to hunt down the ‘lesser’ (I say lesser in terms of prize for example or number of entrants rather than as an insult to the competition) challenges and competitions that present themselves across the maze that is the world wide web.
In an effort to keep my brain ticking over, and thinking architecture. I have been designing a few potential extensions for some people. Taking there ideas and putting them down on paper, as well as creating a few of my own for their consideration.
This was an interesting extension to design. The top plan shows their original choice, where as the 2nd plan shows an idea I proposed to them. My design shows a large kitchen/dining space that made full use of the extension. The double doors at the end allow light into the room, and fully exploit the advantages of the south facing wall looking out over the garden.
This extension was to best use a small space at the side of the house. The additional rooms add a significant amount of floorspace, and rooms that are necessary to the house.
Liam Michael Bennett 