Solar House: It is all about light
The project main idea lay on the sun interaction with a domo located in New Scotland, Canada.
The first step was to find out how the building reacts to sun light in different day key moments all along the year. The use of a 3d software allows me to figure out which areas would be exposed to sun light and which ones would be into shadow. At that point, I found an area that would be always exposed to light.
Due to Canada cold weather, we need to optimize natural light. The building has a great window that is always exposed to sun so the house would have natural light inside every day at any time.
The second step it was to find out how a daily life in Canada happens, the standard timetable. Those activities in which people spend day and by what time does each of those activities take place, and what it is more important, which ones of those activities do need direct illumination and which ones do need not direct illumination. Considering sun interaction with the domo by the time those activities take place, which part of the house would be on shadow and which one would be directed exposed to sun, I was able do an interior organization of the house with certainty that each activity would have proper illumination. I mean, as an example we can be sure that the living room by the time it is normally used, that it is at afternoon after work, would have always direct illumination while the studio would have indirect illumination during the working hours.
Steps:
1_Analysis of daily life in Canada: at what time does each activity happens.

2_Activities classification: one group with the ones that requires direct illumination, another group with the activities requiring indirect illumination.

3_From the previous analysis, I see the sun position in relation to the Woodenigloo by the time each activity takes place.

4_Acording to the sun position and the kind of illumination each activity needs I do the interior distribution.
Swarm concept,
I propose a great open space with multiple platforms at different levels creating an internal landscape. Those platforms are organized by sun incidence but also by the function they contain. The passive activities, such as sleeping, studding or reading, are in the ground levels. The more dynamic activities, such as social life, cooking or playing, take place in the upper levels. By this logic, the ground levels also search a bigger degree of privacy and self space, while the top levels are totally open to each other, creating a great swarm space where the members share all their activities and from each point you can check what it is going on in the full house.
One of the main goals of the proposal it is to create spatial diversity into the dome shell. The circle typology invites to centrality and to a radial space. My project aims to produce multiple situations, multiplicity of view points and heights. I strongly think that only if you have your own space for self development you can share your life and experiences with other people. For relating in society it is mandatory each member is able to find spaces where differentiate his situation and point of view from the others. The homogeneity and deprivation of self singularities incapacitates the individuals to develop in society.
With this goal, the house becomes a great theater for daily life. All the available space of the dome participates into this function. The Dome becomes a great container of life, a background where people, their actions and personal objects become the main characters of the house. That it is why I paint the house in white, to give less importance possible to the architecture and convert it into a background. That it is also why I do not research so much into furniture but mainly into organization, as I think this has to become a kind of museum of the objects the family consider important for them, I do think it is important those objects are choose by the family living in the house and not by the architect.

Ground floor_ The main hall it is one of the most important spaces of the house. It is thought as an internal street where the windows of the rooms look at, where the lights comes directly crossing all the house and where you can follow many different directions. You will feel inside an swarm full of activity. At the right side you would find the access to the studio. I think a person living on a dome it must be a person with self initiative and very probably a person who would like to create his own business or develop his self ideas so an studio it is mandatory on this house.
Next door you would find on the right would be the toilet for the visits or house daily life. The access to the bedrooms would be hidden by a wall in your by left side to give certain protection to this private area. Normally a person who arrive to the house would be up to follow the light of the main window. That would suppose rising through the stairs as sky it would be the only external reference you would have. I place a tree next to the stairs to make stronger this idea of interior landscape. The tree becomes a visual reference you have in any point of the house.
Underground floor_ This floor it is the most intimate one. I aim to produce the highest degrees of privacy of the house for the bedrooms. The access becomes through a library ramp storing books and films. By the middle of the ramp there is a reading space with aerial illumination. From there you can access to the main room or continue walking until children room. The ramp changes his width, I want to protect the access to this area, but once inside I want to create visual comfort. The kids room it is protected by the main room, as if you want to arrive to it you have to pass by main rooms door so children’s would have the feeling of being protected by their parents same time parents have the feeling of having the control of the house. Each room has his own toilet and closet. All the rooms illumination comes from windows that can be open to the internal court. This provides direct illumination during the morning and lets the room regulate the illumination it requires at any moment.
By the end of the ramp there is a chill out space with an interior garden, a place to take a rest, watch a film, sleep a nap or just read a while by the end of the day. It is a social space just for family, more informal and designed to spend there those last moments of light in the day after coming back from work or school. The tree of the internal garden grows along the central empty space of the house and becomes the main reference of the space.

First floor_ By the first floor you would find a first platform with the living room. This space it is probably the most permeable of the house as you have direct connections to three different spaces and you have visual connection with the internal garden chill out area, with the reading area and with the all main rooms. The living room by articulating all the house circulations becomes the main meeting point of the Woodenigloo, we could say it is the nerve center of the social life of the house.

Second floor_ You use the kitchen in the two moments of the day when the sun is lower, the morning for breakfast and the evening for dinner. In those moments of the day it is when the sun sunbeams arrive with the most horizontal position, so the kitchen it is placed at this level to get direct light by those moments.

In functional terms, the kitchen it is designed not only for daily life lunches and breakfasts but also to prepare specials dinners and events. It permits you control the children’s playground while cooking and look at the horizon through the window while lunches.

Third floor_ The playground would have direct light by the last moment of the day when the children’s are back from the school and spend some time playing before dinner. It is also closest to the ceiling as the childrens are smaller so the will be able to do the most of this space. This area can also be control from any point of the house, so you can always know what it is going on there.
About furniture I think this project it is more a concept about organization and how to live the dome. I deeply think a person living here must be creative and must pursue self imagination, so I think the furniture must be a choice of the person using this internal city I do propose to live in.
Please if you do like my project and you decide to built it I would love to see the pictures of how it looks like in reality. Thank you very much