Proposed design process

 
8 trigrams stand for different meanings and represent 8 different stages or states. The design process is also roughly defined with 8 steps; each step’s processing energy will flow into the next one.

Strategy: 9SR as design tools

 
The Mingtang nine-room diagram (明堂九室圖) is taken and used as a representational, operational and generative tool. The following slides show its spatialization. 

Diagram: Yin & Yang

 
The concept rooted in Chinese philosophy, yin and yang, and its derivative diagrams will be used as design tools for intepreting representational meanings, ordering programs and context, and generating schematic design.

Case study: houses

 
Houses by three architects, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Adolf Loos, and Peter Eisenman, were studied.

References:
De Stijl and Dutch modernism
Raumplan versus Plan Libre; Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier
Peter Eisenman: Diagram Diaries

Case study: 9SG

 
Some cases were studied to historically understand the use of 9SG in the field of architectural design. 

Cosmological temples,
China, ancient times
大戴禮記•明堂篇

The Villas,
Italy, Mid 16th century
Andrea Palladio

City Plan of Chandigarh,
Chandigarh, 1950-1965
Le Corbusier

The 9SG Exercise and The Texas Houses,
1954-63
John Hejduk

House projects,
1967-75
Peter Eisenman

Follies, Parc De La Villette, 
Paris, 1983
Bernard Tschumi

Proposal for the Bibliotheque nationale,
Paris, 1989
Rem Koolhaas, OMA

Jawahar Kala Kendra,
Jaipur, 1992
Charles Correa

The 9SG House, 1997 &
The Ivy Structure, 2000
Shigeru Ban

Summary: 

References: DIAGRAMMATIC POTENCY OF THE “NINE SQUARE GRID”IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN by NIHAT KALFAZADE

Tri-layer

 
The idea of introducing tri-layer is to define and deal with spatial problems with interface composed of three layers. Each layer is in charge of either exterior, interior, or approaching experience from the exterior to the interior. 
 

Proposed type B & C

  
Type B was proposed to deal with a family group with four families. Spaces of each family are distributed in its individual two-story volume. Private rooms on double decks surround common spaces.

Again type C was proposed to deal with a family group with three families. (unfinished)