final renders

rendered floor plan

 I want the beach house can give people organic and natural feeling, that is the reason I use timber, rattan and bamboo as materials. I put bathroom in the middle of house because I want to give bedroom more privacy, rather than if people want to go bathroom they need pass bedroom to getting there. Bathroom like a facade, give privacy but also bring open space idea to the beach house. I use bamboo and rattan as flooring material, make same patterns but use different material, so kind like use each material to identify each space. Two side external french windows cover by blind, blind can block sunlight and decreased interior temperature when sunlight direct through french windows to inside house.

Elevations/Sections of beach house

sections and details of ceiling system

Perspectives shows materials and finishs of interior view, give audience idea of what will be look like.

interior reference images

I like beach house can blend to the environment, so those images are my intention : want to design a beach house use organic material to created a house can communicate outside environment and interior. 

1:1 final model

 under sun light

detail of rope join

model making process

 I made 5 of timber bobbins, by use wood lathe machine

 drill 13mm hole through each bobbin

Use sisal rope make hanging structure, then use timber to frame it.

ceiling bobbin detail drawing

I draw the detail of "bobbin", which I plan to hanging on the ceiling, and this component will  be my key component, and I decide to make 1:1 model in my final presentation. 

Paradise mid-semester presentation

my inspiration was from lace making, I like inter spaces of lace, and the flexibility of this technical. 

floor plan had three main area, which are living area, bathroom and bedroom. I put bed room in the back, because I want give privacy to the people who will live here. From bathroom still can see the outside view.

Below are three components, cabinet of bedroom, stool of mini bar and hanging system of ceiling.

cabinet detail, and woven system

perspectives, bedroom and mini bar area.

traditional hand craft and material

After research about Sri Lanka's traditional handicraft and materials, I decide use Lace making as my technical, and use cadjan (palm leaves), bamboo, and brick as my materials.

cadjan Plaited leaves of the coconut palm which are used to thatch roofs in some rural house. In earlier times, cadjans covered less lowly roofs as well.

reference Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka
palm leaves woven YouTube video

lace making
they had many type of lace making, I am more interested bobbin lace making
bobbin lace making youtube
Bobbin lace (or pillow lace) takes its name from the way it is made: on a  firm pillow to which a pricked-out pattern is tacked and each twist of the bobbins is held in place by a pin.  For all its intricate and elegant appearance, there are only two different movements of bobbins in the formation of the lace: the twist and the cross. 

bobbins type

Roller- many shapes  

but nearly all with a roller embedded in pillow.                            These are good for most continuous laces; like edgings, flounces, trims etc.

Thai five stars beach hotel

Thailand have similar weather with Sri Lanka, and hotels of  Thailand used traditional culture mix with contemporary design elements.
Below pictures from Melati Beach Resort & Spa Koh Samui, Thailand.

Mirissa

those pictures shows great view from mirissa, which site of the hotel

Located close to the Southern tip of the Island of Sri Lanka and only about 200 km from the Equator, this secluded crescent shaped beach is the perfect place to sit back, relax .

Geography of Sri Lanka

More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnokites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vinjayan Series occur in the eastern and southeastern lowlands. Jurassic sediments are present in very small areas near the western coast and Miocene limestones underlie the northwestern part of the country and extend south in a relatively narrow belt along the west coast.^[1] The metamorphic rock surface was created by the transformation of ancient sediments under intense heat and pressure during mountain-building processes. The theory of plate tectonics suggests that these rocks and related rocks forming most of south India were part of a single southern landmass called Gondwanaland. Beginning about 200 million years ago, forces within the Earth's mantle began to separate the lands of the Southern Hemisphere, and a crustal plate supporting both India and Sri Lanka moved toward the northeast. About 45 million years ago, the Indian plate collided with the Asian landmass, raising the Himalayas in northern India, and continuing to advance slowly to the present time. Sri Lanka does not experience earthquakes or major volcanic events because it rides on the center of the plate.

The island contains relatively limited strata of sedimentation surrounding its ancient uplands. Aside from recent deposits along river valleys, only two small fragments of Jurassic (140 to 190 million years ago) sediment occur in Puttalam District, while a more extensive belt of Miocene (5 to 20 million years ago) limestone is found along the northwest coast, overlain in many areas by Pleistocene (1 million years ago) deposits. The northwest coast is part of the deep Cauvery (Kaveri) River Basin of southeast India, which has been collecting sediments from the highlands of India and Sri Lanka since the breakup of Gondwanaland.

refer from wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Sri_Lanka

traditional building materials in Sri Lanka

The building materials used to varying degrees in Sri Lanka are as follows: burnt clay bricks, cement and cement products including asbestos-cement sheets, corrugated iron, aluminum, alloy, fiber glass and bituminous sheets, structural steel, earth, common clay and soil blocks, natural stones, lime, timber(including bamboo) and tiles.  Agricultural fiber wastes are used to a limited extent in specific applications. Building components such as glass and ceramics (sanitary ware, tiles, and pipes) are also used. The choice of materials is determined by the particular environment of their use (rural and urban), cost, aesthetic appearance, functional considerations and their availability.

The use of building materials is quite different in rural and in urban areas. Locally available indigenous materials are widely used in many rural areas.

Traditional materials

An island wide survey on rural housing conducted by the national building research organization in 1984 revealed that earth(61.8%), burnt clay bricks(16.2%), rubble(8.1%),cement products (4.8%), cabook (4.1%), timber and other materials (0.9%) are the materials used in superstructure walls of rural houses. Earth construction was mainly in the form of wattle and daub (50.4%) with rammed earth (8.4%) and adobe (4.6%) confined to certain areas of country.

As regards the roofing material, cadjan is the most popular with 42.6% of the housing units using it as the prime material. Straw and palmyrah thatching have been used in 4.1% and 1.6% houses respectively. Clay tiles constitute 33.8% of the houses while 10.8% houses are roofed with corrugated sheets.

The majority of urban houses have brick walls (62%) tiled roof cover (47.7%) and cement floors (78%).

burnt red clay bricks

cadjan

 palmyrah tree