Exterior rooms come in sundry shapes, sizes, colours, and purposes. An exterior room is constituted when a designated area in some way has been isolated from another area, whether it be divided by a wall, implied wall, a grass hedge (any vegetation), pillars, columns, level changes, etc. People have developed these exterior rooms over the years to fit many needs. An outdoor living room, for example, allows you enjoy the soothing sounds of nature while sitting in the comfort of a sofa. A specific exterior room that I am going to discuss is “the courtyard”. “Courtyard- an open area of ground surrounded by walls or buildings” (World English Dictionary, 2014). The courtyard has many purposes such as socio-cultural, security and privacy, and climate control.
Socio-cultural factors influence the design of the courtyard by reflecting the culture of the people who will be putting it to use. Daily ceremonies and rituals were often performed within the walls of the courtyard. We develop our courtyard specifically for our local needs. For example, the courtyards in the Islamic culture are goin...
In his book Modern Civic Art, Robinson discussed various ways to beautify the city from avenues to small streets, the tenements, the administrative center, and the furnishings of the streets, comprehensive planning, parkways and so forth. Some of his ideas were only good on paper at that time but as the city evolved most of them have now come into fruition. He explained that the backyard should be as beautiful as the front of the house as well as the inside. (Robinson, 1903 p. 241)
...the surface area, the size of the arches and the columns of the Great Hall are exponentially bigger than those of the Courtyards. The two areas are also different in color. The Moroccan Courtyard is richer in color than the Great Hall. The Great Hall is mostly comprised of four to five colors. On the contrary, the Moroccan Courtyard is decorated with much more different colors. The function of the Moroccan Courtyard differs from the function of the Great Hall. The Courtyard focuses mainly on Moroccan Art. The main purpose of it is to show what Moroccan Art looks like. The Great Hall is supposed to function as a lobby. There is no exhibits located in the Great Hall. The whole idea behind it is to present that more art lies ahead.
However, the placement of each are different on the two houses. Palazzo Medici’s courtyard is located in a direct axis throught the front door and it’s fairly in the middle of the building. It is divided first as cortile then opens up in a courtyard which a garden is located (image 3). In the Paraty house, the patios are located throughout the very back of the building (image 4). Compared to the Paraty house, Palazzio Medici’s patio is larger and more spacious for socialization whereas in the brazilian house, this patio seens to serve more as ornamental
With the Pantheon being built over 1700 years ago, it’s amazing that architects are still using features and techniques from this work of architecture in modern creations. The use of this type of classical architecture will continue to be used in works for public space due to its remarkable exterior appearance and it’s long lasting structural durability. When both Jesse hall and the Pantheon are compared it is possible to see their similarities from the types of domes that top each, their external facades, and their interior plan. While they share many similarities, the differences that Bell and Binder used in their creation make this work of architecture unique to many other public spaces.
Many people in this world have the goal to be successful. Being successful carries a different denotation from person to person. For many people, success and The American Dream go hand in hand. So what is the American Dream? “The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved” For many people, The American dream connotes owning a home with a white picket fence, a decent car, a family and a golden retriever. Although, very 1950’s, the basic idea is having a “perfect” lifestyle. If a person has all of these basic items, logic would indicate that the person values these things and wants to take care of them and see a return on their investments. So what is the best way to get a return on your investment? Make it aesthetically pleasing, of course! One way to improve the aesthetics of a property is to landscape it! But, how could this be so important? In order to understand the impact landscaping has on a property, one must first know what a landscape is. According to the Oxford dictionary, a landscape is “the visible features of an area of countryside or land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.” In today’s time, first impressions have a big impact on how things are perceived. For example, when going to a job interview, it is
But these contrived differences give rise to esthetic difficulties too. Because inherent differences—those that come from genuinely differing uses—are lacking among the buildings and their settings, the contrivances repre...
...just the physical features. This is the same way Gothic Architecture was design to overwhelm and make feel the individual inferior to the institution behind the building. Consequently, the conceptual aspect of the building came as a secondary element in the design of the building. Such as the experience and feeling of the people coming to this building and being inside. The same way Gothic Architecture did it.
In order to create innovative public architecture, considered to be the most civic, costly, time intensive and physical of the arts, the project holds a degree of risk, strife, and negotiation . Overcoming these tasks and creating worthy public architecture is a challenge designers try to accomplish, but are rarely successful. The people involved in a potential public building, can be larger than the building itself. Public architecture tries to please all, even the doubters and critics, but because of the all these factors, a building is closer to failing than succeeding.
A smaller pool lays adjacent to the building on the opposite side enclosed by a wall of marble. Mies designed the pavilion to blur the lines between inside and outside space. There are parts of the walls that seem to be missing which creates a flow between the two main spaces. The pavilion’s thin sweeping roof is supported by eight cruciform columns clad in chrome. This created an open and free space where he lined the outside of the building with glass. He then carefully placed a thin slab of onyx in the middle of the open volume.
When walking around a city, you may notice that the architecture and art look similar to other works. Many of these designs have changed along the course of history and time whilst others have not. The designs that many people still see in society and day to day living is from two of the many cultures of the old civilizations, Roman and Islamic. The art and architecture forms from the Islamic and Roman cultures have many comparisons and contrasts between them. They, the Islamic and Roman nations, have both adopted from other cultures and have made their own discoveries in the art and architecture worlds. The Roman and Islamic architecture and art vary drastically from each other and yet have varying comparisons between the two.
Design was inspired by the dynamic of flight and the feathers of a falcon which reflects celebration of Highness Sheikh Zayed's love of nature and legacy based on a timeline of his life with the traditional Arabic Design. It was built using highly effective recent elements in order to provide the hospitality museum that’s maintainable, welcoming and culturally of its place. All the designs...
Remarkably, unlike in the description of art or music, the notion of atmosphere remains largely unaddressed in architecture. Atmosphere, can be argued, is the very initial and immediate experience of space and can be understood as a notion that addresses architectural quality, but the discussion of atmosphere in architecture will always entail, by definition, a certain ambiguity. After all, atmosphere is something personal, vague, ephemeral and difficult to capture in text or design, impossible to define or analyse. Atmosphere, Mark Wigley says, “evades analysis, it’s not easily defined, constructed or controlled”.
When linking the concept of cultural relativism to architecture, one would realize that both these components depend on each other. One cannot exist without the other (Kohler, 2003). Kohler remarks that in order for architecture to be progressive, The transfer and acceptance of technologies and techniques has to be based on a sound knowledge of regional culture (Kohler, 2003). In other words, the existing architecture or urban environment has to distinguish the features of regional diversity. Cultural exchange must consider the environment. No clash exists between regional and environmental appropriate construction techniques (Kohler, 2003). This is so because traditional architecture has adopted economic and environmental solutions. Conflict can only exist if one considers the ‘international style’ that has popularized the modern era with its high resource consumption. Kohler (2003) also stresses that there should be no regional cultural boundaries in order for architecture to be progressive (Kohler, 2003:86)
A city has to be beautiful, though the definition of “beauty” is so vague. The beauty can be physical, such as enjoyable parks, streetscapes, architectural facades, the sky fragment through freeways and trees; or it can be the beauty of livelihood, people, and history. As landscape architects, we are creating beautiful things or turning the unpleasant memorial.
This usually entails the manipulation of texture, proportion and the setting pleasant utilization of sunshine with the intention to realize symmetry, harmony and an accurate equilibrium in complete human life. The essential ideas of good design are pure and to an enormous extent innate. When analyzing the universal properties of sunshine, house, colour and supplies, the inside designer appears to be like at the interplay of the natural legal tips that govern them. The precise design of a room works not only on the customarily ignored senses of odor and listening to but additionally on the emotions. Coloration schemes are selected to copy the mood of a room. Understanding how every side of a design contributes to a common look and feel of a room or area constantly takes precise experience and each architects and designers manipulate these to good