Puffin Bird House- Rhino and Sketch Up

The above images show my group's puffin house.  We each presented our original designs to the professors, and then for our final bird house model, we chose to combine the concepts of each of our designs into a single bird house.  My individual bird house design took inspiration from John Hejduk's interdependence of spaces in The Wall House.  Another member of my group focused on the burrowing nature of a puffin and integrated that environmental condition into the design of her bird house.


For our final design, we combined the concepts of burrowing and interdependent suspended spaces.  The two suspended 'rooms' were moved closer to create a passage from one side of the central wall to the other side, as found in the prescedent house.  The larger and higher 'room' opens to the outside, while the lower room is enclosed.  This lower, closed-off room serves as a burrow for the puffin.  The only way that the burrow can be accesed is by entering the higher 'room' and moving through the wall.


The above images show, respectively, the Rhino model of our bird house, the flat pack design of the house in sketch up, and the photoshopped version of the birdhouse intact with a scale figure of the puffin.  The color coded pieces in the flat pack design corrolate to those in the photoshopped image.