Suppose you made a sketch model in Module 1 and through this your dominant thought was that your dream house should have a cosy, central meeting space. This is then what you could call your ‘guiding theme’: a house where friends and family can come together.

Other guiding themes could be, for example, a house full of nature, a musical submarine, a place for a cook and his library, etc.

Let’s imagine that your ‘house where friends and family can come together‘ is already available as a first sketch on your Weebly site and maybe even as a 3D digital model on SketchFab. For this sketch model and to advance forwards in the design process, you now will need a site to base your design on. Maybe you already know the location of your dream house, or perhaps you still have to think about it.

What are the important considerations of this location? How does your design relate to the context?

Here is a list of possible aspects and questions about the context of your design:

• Is it in a city or a more open landscape, for example, at the sea, in the forest, or in the mountains?
• What do you want to see, smell, hear from the house?
• How will the house fit in the neighbourhood or in the landscape? Is it different or similar? Is it dominant or modest?
• Is there a certain ‘style’ that the house takes on? Vernacular, modern, self made, industrial…?