I started my diagram by examining the Gropius House by architect Walter Gropius. I decided to examine the plan by looking for geometries, regulating lines, and interior/exterior relationships within the massing.
I found a grouping of rectangles as the prominent geometry. None of the rectangles are separated from the rest. The interior space is the largest rectangle with the entryway at the bottom that aligns to the diagonal. The exterior space is the smaller rectangles that group around the main interior space. The regulating lines that I uncovered seemed to regulate the geometry and size of the building. The main regulating lines were the horizontal datum line on the very top of the massing and the diagonal line that regulated the bottom of the massing. The rectangles fit between these
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The vertical lines seemed to break up the larger rectangle into four smaller rectangles. As the building is seen from right to left, the rectangles become smaller and more subdivided. Although almost all of the walls are vertically or horizontally arranged, as in a grid, there is one wall in the interior heart of the building that is diagonal. There is a circle representing the outside stair that has a spiral pathway from it to the main building. The pathway to the front entrance of the house is a rectangle that is skewed along the diagonal. This rectangle takes away from the interior rectangle that it lies inside of, which is also cut by the main regulating diagonal line.
I took the observations that I had of the plan and tried to figure out the actions behind the result. The main organization that I noticed was the two regulating lines, the horizontal datum above and the diagonal line below, that intersected at a point which gave the impression of the compression of the rectangles by these lines. The rectangles also
James F. O'Gorman, Dennis E. McGrath. ABC of Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Document. October 2013.
...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.
The short story by Sandra Cisneros revolves truly around the tittle “The House on Mango Street” and how her family moved from places to places to get there. The recollection of the street names her family lived on and how every time they moved “there’d be one more of us” added to the authors focus of emphasizing how important the word “home” meant to her throughout the story. The family of six included Mama, Papa, brothers Carlos and Kiki, and sister Nenny.
Everyone has specific characteristics and qualities that make them the way they present themselves. Young, middle-aged, and old people are constantly forming the essentials that affect their self-awareness through their daily activities. Forming one’s identity is an ongoing process, because every person in the world can change people one way or another. In The House on Mango Street, the experiences young Esperanza faced day to day develop her true individuality.
Lost in the hills of Poly Canyon lies a land filled with bizarre structure built by past students that make up the architectural study area. This chunk of land is designated for architectural students to build their senior projects on.
with circles added at the perimeter to add or subtract space. The result is a space that is centralized and yet axial. Its simplicity is ingenious. The façade and the space of the church just barely intersect. In fact, the church has no actual f...
Ever do something stupid to impress someone? Throughout a person’s life they will do something very ignorant or say something very stupid hundreds of times. Most of the time it is because they are trying to impress somebody or change their ways to make someone or others accept them. The story “Haunting of Hill House” has great examples of people changing just to fit in. The author Shirley Jackson, who died in 1965, was one of the most brilliant writers of her time. She was widely acclaimed for her hair-raising stories and novels of the supernatural. Although the “Haunting of Hill House” fits this description perfectly with its eerie description of supernatural tales of the happenings of Hill House; there is a more to it than hauntings. The story starts out with three guests being invited to the house to monitor any out of the ordinary occurrences in Hill House. Throughout the story the guests experience some ghostly moments. However during this one of the guest named Eleanor changes her ways to fit in with the guests. Her actions show that society’s views on a person can lead that person to things they would never have thought of. One example would be when Eleanor told lies about herself and her past. Another example would be when Eleanor went around the house alone having no fear. Finally Eleanor became open and spoke out what was on her mind.
This image is Stuart's Topological Map of the Crystal Palace and Guide to the Revised Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Industries of All Nations. The map was prepared by Henri C. Stuart and published by G.P. Putnam and Co. for the use of visitors to the New York Crystal Palace. With the accompanying legend, visitors would be able to see the layout of all the exhibit classes in the building, as well as the entrances and stairways. As seen in this plan, all the room in the spacious building was used for displaying the different forms of industry. The position of the Machine Gallery in relation to the Crystal Palace can also be seen. The restrooms are between the Palace and the Gallery, adjacent to Saloon areas for the Gents and Ladies respectively. In addition, for the convenience of visitors, a note below the map states, "Wherever this sign (*) occurs on the diagram, is a prominent point of interest to the visitor." The sculptures displayed along the main naves are clearly labeled, so that one could use them as "You Are Here" signs to know where one was on the diagram.
Sally wears make-up to school and skirts that she pulls up, but when she goes home
On the other hand, Internal side has also been influenced by the external side’s complexity. The internal side of the house was renovated in line with the other side, showing the combination between the old and new elements. Even though Gehry didn’t change the basic plan of the house, it seems that the external complexity still can be f...
(Image taken from Tranchtenberg, Marvin, Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity. Second Edition. Prentice Hall, Inc. New Jersey: 2002.)
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.
The aim of classical design has always been, according to Vitruvius’ De Architectura libri decem (De Architectura) known today as The Ten Books on Architecture, to proportion a harmonic structure. According to Marcus Vitruvius Pollio the theory of proportion is particularly important when it comes to designing a building, a passage in which his study relates human and architectural proportions he states:
With the interaction between the development of computational approaches in architecture and the contemporary forms of spatial design intelligence, some new architectural design theories emerged to make differences between architects and control designing processes. These theories are almost employed in all designing realms, from architecture to urban design to provide fields of ideas and solutions that privilege by complexity. Most of these theories are oriented to relay on understanding and using computational methods to generate exotic and complex geometries. In this respect, three of these theories will discussed and tested against three buildings. The theories are: parametric design, genetic architecture and emergence, which characterize some of the contemporary architectural design approaches.
The pavilion is significant figure in the history of modern architecture, regarded to be influential with its open plan and use of exotic material. There is a blurred spatial demarcation where the interior becomes an exterior and exterior becomes the interior. The structure constantly offers new perspectives and experiences, as visitors discover and rediscover in the progress of moving throughout the in’s and out’s, a non directional conforming circulating movement pattern. To facilitate this movement, even though it is a visually simplistic plan, its complexity is derived from the strategic layout of walls with its intimation of an infinite freedom of