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1. UNDULATING HORIZONS
2. SERPENTINE TOWNHOUS(ING)
3. EXPERIENTIAL URBANISM
4. VAULTED DIALOGUES
5. FORMAL ANALYSIS
6. A THIRD
7. SOLAR DECATHLON
ARCH-RESEARCH 8. DL1310 APERTURE
9. SPRINGTECTURE
10. PASSERELLE LA DEFENSE
11. BCM ROOFTOP PAVILION
12. CARBON CHAIR
13. SHELL FORM FINDING
14. DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY
NON-ARCH 15. RELIEF
- A Study on Three Canonical Architectures & Experiment on Representation
Temple of Amon-Re - Luxor, Egypt - c. 1250 B.C.E
Villa Giulia - Barozzi da Vigonola - Rome, Italy - 1551-1553
Wall House II - John Hejduk - Groningen, Netherlands - 1971
Formal Analysis privileges the linguistic coherence and rupture of architectural forms. Material, site, structure, progrmas are only analyzed if it has a significant relationship to its form. The Scacrifice of a holistic diagonsis is in exchange for a deep reading into a invisible logic of composition that can be appropriated into new design work. This specific series focuses on three canonical pieces ranging from Before Common Era to Renaissance to Post Modern: Temple of Amon-Re in Luxor, 1250 B.C.E Egypt ; Villa Giulia by Barozzi da Vigonola in1550s; and Wall House II by John Hejduk in 1971.
*Works collaborated with: Sophie Wang; Sarah Magbunduku
Temple of Amon-Re - Luxor, Egypt - c. 1250 B.C.E
Dividing vs. Nesting: Identical elements behave differently when subdividing spaces -
-Dividing: a set of Pylons placed at the mid-line of the boundary, resulting in a condition of half.
-Nesting: the repetitions of pylons dominating walls forming rectangular figures create a condition of nesting.
Thresholds: Thresholds and the extension of the thresholds penetrate the entire temple.
Telescoping: scaling of identical elements creates an gestalt of Telescoping, from where the Pylons block the wall at the first portion and gradually scaled down and dissolved into the walls.
Villa Giulia - Barozzi da Vigonola - Rome, Italy - 1551-1553
Doubling & Stitching: Semi-circle and square come together to form a resolved figure. The figure was doubled and connected/divided by a virtual plane.
Expansion vs. Compression: The expanded segment has the semi-circle was offset outward with bracket wall detached from the semicircle; the compressed segment has the semi-circle was offset inward and interlocked with the bracket wall.
Entablature & Columns: Columns and entablatures' behavior emphasize the conceptual identities between the two portions. The short-long-short rhythm on the semi-circle contrast with even gaps on the bracketed figure; entablatures are separate in the expanded segment and connected/overlapped in the compressed segment.
Wall House II - John Hejduk - Groningen, Netherlands - 1971
Interlocking: the elevated corridor connects the rooms in a complete curved profile; in contrast, the figures of the other rooms are cut by the plane facing the giant wall. Four rooms under the two systems are separately connected by two linear circulations (corridor bridge & stairs shaft), while two systems interlock with each other and are strengthened by the wall and the columns grid within the rooms.
Cut Plane as the Second Ground: the contrast between full-curve and cut-curve rooms reveals the concept of the wall as the second ground. Except for the normality of flat floors, elements attached to the big wall also have the side facing the wall flat.
Temple of Amon-Re Telescoping, Progession to the Climax:
Triades in Comparison - Thresholds/Virtural Planes as Dividing Elements:
Triades in Comparison - Doubling/Echoing:
Triades in Comparison - Progression of Circulation:
Triades in Comparison - Back & Forth, Into the Vertical Circulations:
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