The shapes found in Marmol and Radziners work are strong geometric exhibiting squares and different size rectangles. The Bird House Cage is composed of 3 ½” X 5” rectangles. Projects like Trousdale, Vienna Way, La Jolla, Glencoe, and Benvenuto Court show multiple rectangles in their designs. 

I used the same principal colors presented by a architects designs.  . In Marmol and Radziner’s designs the most constant colors are neutral colors like black, white, brown, and gray. For example Glencoe, Sela, Benvenuto Court, Sun Valley, East Hampton as other Projects of Marmol and Radziner are composed of this neutral color. The Birdhouse complex is composed of different tones of brown, white, gray, and a little of black.

The surface texture, is usually created by the materials.  There may be a texture that is possessed by the material or a visual effects of the sunlight evident with the change of sunlight.   In Marmol and Radziner’s projects the texture created by the materials are mainly created by wood, concrete, and glass as well as metal. We could see the wood texture on Marmol and Radziner’s projects. I adopted the wood texture in the birdhouse complex.

Form is the three dimensional proportions,  Marmol and Radziner’s projects consist of form shapes like S, C, O, backwords C, and reversed U shape.  This forms are seen in the combination of  overhangs from flat roofs, walls, and floors forming this forms in the outside.  My birdhouse complex uses three dimensional forms in S,C, and O Shapes.

Pattern is the repetition of elements. Elements that are repetitive on Marmol and Radziner work are Straight and flat lines. Other patterns on Marmol and Radziner projects are rectangular shapes.  Windows and other detail elements are not present to create a strong use of pattern so I concentrated on other design elements.

I applied the design elements of  natural colors like brown, white, gray, and black and the texture of wood.  I selected the three dimensional C and O shape forms. Design solution I created was not one birdhouse I chose to design is a complex of seven structures.  They would be enclosed within a cage because I will populate it with live birds. The Birdhouse Complex was created this way because it expresses another quality in  Marmol and Radziner’s projects of  the single buildings being connected by the landscape, a pool, or a back yard this causes the building to have free space in between them but still feel connected and interrelated.

I crafted the seven structures from materials that were ‘found’ such as flooring samples and painted the enclosing cage.  I successfully accomplished this project within the limited time period allotted and presented my project.  It directly expresses the essence of design qualities of my selected architect Leo Marmol and his partner Architect Ron Radziner.