Conceptual designs

Particularly appropriate at the initial stages of a project when developing a concept or preliminary design, conceptual drawings allow the architect to move freely through their ideas. The concept can be developed diagrammatically in sketches, or via an investigation of model form, shape or material.

At the conceptual stage of an architectural scheme anything can inform the design development; it may be a process of making or thinking, or a physical sense of form or materiality.

Scale

This is one of a group of houses that forms an integral part of a larger rural development for an equestrian centre, which has been conceived as an initiative in agricultural diversification. This perspective drawing shows the house viewed through the trees. The site is part of a Grade I listed landscape on the Westonbirt Estate in Gloucestershire. Octagon House, Belvedere House and the Lodge have been designed together with indoor and outdoor schools and stables, embedded in clearings formed within the woodland plantation known as Rough Grounds. The perspective image shows a veiled view of the building hidden by trees.

‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Updated: 24th November 2014 — 11:45 am