Garden plan with color transitions

Plan shows the flow and hierarchy of each level.

Yellow: Transition from light to dark
Blue: Spaces and events with darker objects representing greater interest

Medium: Plan scan with Adobe Illustrator color fill

Garden Model 2

Garden Model 1

The model represents the basic spaces of the garden. It is dynamic in that it represents the topology of the garden, but the pins can be relocated to represent the topography of the garden.

Medium: MDF board and metal wire

Space Event Movement (SEM)

The final meaning of any sequence is dependent on the relation space/event/movement. By extension, the meaning of any architectural situation depends on the relation SEM.
Sequence

The plan was separated into space, event and movement.
Medium: pencil on trace paper

Wire Model

Model represents the major paths throughout the garden.

Views from the villa

View of 3rd level

Inside pergola

View from pergola

Looking over 3rd level terrace

Isometric sketch with Illustrator color fill

Plan was drawn as an isometric, and then projected to better understand the elevations of the garden.
Graphite pencil, with Illustrator fills.

Views of the facades

Plan with section cuts

Plan with section cuts
Medium: pencil on velum

The Villa Medici, one of the many country residences of the great Lorenzo, brings home very forcibly the life of entertaining associated with that Florentine school of thought, the Platonic Academy. Such a villa, designed solely to provide luxurious mental refreshment, and placed in the most beautiful situation of any round Florence, could not fail to attract scholars for the interchange and acquisition of knowledge. If the life may have inclined to ease, at least the architecture of the place rises to a very great level. There is probably as much dignity of learning expressed in the long simple lines of the terraces cut out of the hill below Fiesole, as there ever was in all cultivating arguments prompted within its precincts. As one of the buildings, therefore, which make the dawn of the Renaissance, and in which the newly born love of art and freedom were fostered and spread abroad, the Villa has a special interest. As work of garden architecture, it was a thoroughly sound conception, and one of the most important foundations of future garden design.
H. Ingo Triggs

Villa Medici at Fiesole by Michelozzi in 1460

Section Z-Z
Plan View

Taxonomic Catalog

Taxonomic Catalog

M1 / Masses
Gardens
Public
Semi Public
Private

Structures
Villa
Stables
Maids Quarter

S1 / Horizontal Surface
Levels
Ground level
1st level
2nd level
4th level
Inclines
Pergola

S2 / Vertical Surfaces
Retaining Walls
Levies

E1 / Vertical Elements
Plants
Trees
Brush
Fountains

E2 / Path Elements
Stairs
Pergola
Villa
1st Floor
2nd Floor
Railings
Concrete

M2 / Mass-Less Conditions
Views From
Terraces
Brunch House
Villa