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The project is mainly about how to divide the spaces that’s shaped from basic polygons into a house with some requirements like bedroom quantity, garage, etc. The polygons that I have chosen are sphere, torus, and pyramid. At first, I was really interested in torus because it’s such a rare polygon as the requirement of the shape of the building. Sphere is more common, but I think it’s also more challenging compared to other simpler polygons. Triangle was chosen just because I think there should be something a bit more simple compared to the other two polygons, just so that the building doesn’t look just an imagination.

The main problem with these polygons is the height, since I made the torus standing instead of parallel to the ground because in my opinion placing it that way is more challenging. With the height problem occurring due to the shape of the torus that curving all the way around, if you put a level inside the torus, it’ll give different height of the ceilings and you might have some part of the room that is not even 1.5m.

Other problem that I encounter is the circulation. Since it’s a torus with a sphere in the middle, a lift is actually necessary because people should climb the building through stairs, the distance is pretty far and it’ll just tiring for them to go to the top level from the ground level. So a lift is provided around the middle area of the building, but outside the torus and sphere. After having the lift, I still need to design a fire safety regulation. Because of that there are stairs around the building, and extruded platforms for the stairs area. The simpler problem would be the connection between the pyramid and the torus. It made a pretty good harmony, but what I found is that the flat surface of the triangle actually made the space looks like a cage, which I don’t really like.  

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