Amirhossein Lahouti
The above image shows the placement of Rachel's Happy Place on the site. The main door of Happy Place is on the south side and as Rachel liked, there is adequate vegetation on the site so that she can watch the beautiful plants outside through the window frame whenever she wants.
To design this project, like project X0, I used the formal translation of the word aggregation. After talking with Rachel, I realized that he likes soft and curved edges and doesn't like sharp edges. So, I decided to design the exterior as I like it (with sharp edges) while the interior has many rounded edges. Rachel’s Happy Place is made up of three main spaces, a room with a glass roof on the east side, a semi-open space on the west side, and an in-between space between these two. She can take a rest in the east room, she can draw in that in-between space, and can enjoy the open air in the west semi-open space, or she can turn that into a closed space by closing the door.
To control the light entering from the roof, fabric structures were used, in addition to creating shadows in different parts of Happy Place, this element makes the design of the form and space more consistent.
As Rachel likes, a lot of plants were placed in different parts of this happy place, also most of the furniture in this happy place is built-in furniture, such as flower pots that came out of the wall or The lights that protrude from some parts of the ceiling.
Finally, in the picture above, I tried to predict the events that Rachel is going to have in this space, a space for drawing, resting, and looking at plants, exactly the events that Rachel is looking forward to.