Tree House Processing

On the very first session of our ARCDES class, we started to already begin a very surprising task. We already have to generate our brains in order to produce an excellent output for our very first mission. We have to design a tree house, sounds funny but it is mind boggling enough for our summer stricken minds. We only have one hour to design and for me that isn’t long enough or short enough to come up with a design. But as time goes by, what I thought was simple became difficult, because at that time I really don’t know how to be inspired easily or I mean how to get design concepts easily. I really don’t know what I will draw so I just designed a very simple tree house and I just relate a part of it to my concept which is “simple yet producing the feeling of having both privacy and openness”. I really don’t know how to strike up with a strong concept because I feel insecure about my drawing because I saw that theirs are really good and have easily come up with unique design but mine just looks like one of the normal things that they can easily defy.

Now I have this concept that comes up to my mind, because I thought that although it is simple enough it has this distinct look for me. My inspiration is onion; even though it is simple I find inspiration in it especially about its look and defense mechanism.  Its physical look attracts me because it is so slender and seems so simple and that for me it is very ideal for a tree house. Regarding about its defense mechanism, I realized that an onion has many skins when you peeled it off and I realized that it was there for some reason, to protect the young and fresh nutrition inside it. By looking at how the defense mechanism works, I realized that it can greatly affect my floor plan and can work as partitions inside the house. But my problem is that how can I keep my concept without giving an output that is very literal in the human eye.