Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Renaissance Church Plans

Sebastiano Serlio, plans for centralised Renaissance churches 1547. Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, 1949. 

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Tadao Ando / Fabrica



Above and Below Ground. 
Movement/ Flow/ Interaction

James Turrell



Evoking thought in the user.
The power of Architecture. 

Exchange Space example



Artichoke



The debate space could be a suspended element using the upside down artichoke as a form. When the space isn't in use the leaves are closed but when a debate is in progress the leaves open allowing people sat in the public space below to see into the space. 

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Concept Diagrams

Mass 
Positive / Individual Knowledge Spaces
Negative / Useable flexible space 
Evolving and Encouraging Spontaneity