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For my field research station, I wanted to incorporate a basic attempt at passive solar design, while incorporating light elements that I found delightful from East Asian architecture/biophilic view-to-nature themes. In respect to passive solar design, I tried to privilege most of the window coverage on the south and east faces of the station, and allocated the likely most-trafficked spaces (work/meeting) accordingly towards those sides so that folks could benefit from the natural light. I sloped the roof towards the south so that any placed solar panels could hopefully receive the maximal exposure. The front of the station was meant to lightly reference elements commonly found in hanok (traditional Korean houses) and machiya (traditional Japanese town houses), given the round windows, verticality, and shallow courtyard. The arrangement of the frontal windows was intended to inspire curiousity with peeks at the activity inside, while the south and easterly windows were meant to maximize connection to the natural scenes theoretically surrounding the station. I envisioned the station as not only a place of research, but also leisure and education, so I thought it could be cool to place the ‘lab bench’ outside in case the researchers wanted to hold demonstrations for the public. *A quick note on the storeroom & bathroom, the storeroom has internal light exposure from the curtain wall but I wanted to minimize too much natural light exposure since I didn’t know what would go into storage. The bathroom isn’t directly connected to the interior of the structure just in case researchers get dirty in the field and want to clean off before tracking in mud!