Ornament in Design

Moving along with the position in my last blog post (ornament and restraint) here is a preliminary idea of what my house will be.  By house I mean "Hungarian Canadian Holiday Home for Two".  Yeah, I guess that's a mouthful. Tried to make things a bit easier for myself by sticking with what I know.  (As cheesy as it may sound.)

Keeping in mind that ornaments are "details that enrich architectural design in their physical form but also symbolic meaning"...

Strategies & Tactics:

1) Enrich the Architectural Identity
- pull an iconography from the user's culture
- create a holistic environment through repetition of a pattern
- reflect specific place and context

2) Enrich the Architectural Utility
- merge ornament with envelope
- merge ornament with structure
- merge ornament with finishes

3) Enrich the Architectural Craft
- carefully consider construction assembly/fabrication
- selectively choose placement
- choice of material

The strategies work together in forming a 'what-where-how' guide.

I chose a pattern based on Hungarian embroidery (in blue) and traditional Zsolnay tiling:

Photo sources: 1 & 2

I'm pretty sure these tiles were also a part of the Hungarian pavilion in Venice.  I'd like them to indicate the main entrance while also protecting from rain (slanted roof in sketch above).

Anyway, I'm exploring what the possibilities are with the pattern I've selected keeping in mind a wood frame construction - true to the Canadian north.  Some 'functions' I identified for this summer home are wind screen, sun filter, framing views, passive ventilation...

The grid has been used at various scales:

Without the grids now (white on plan is the roof):

Need to finesse the elevations and bring it all into 3D (which should help refine things) and assess the effect the pattern may have on filtering light etc and how it may be built...

Well, that wasn't too hard - everyone else post your designs!  Don't leave me out here all alone feeling vulnerable...