Experiment 2: The Space Between

Final Submission

 

My two chosen concepts were flexibility/irrationality and controlled chaos. Toyo Ito's work portrays a very light, flexible and irrational style of architecture. I have specifically chosen this concept to reflect Ito's work and have been inspired by many of his buildings. Carlo Scarpa's work portrays a simple, ageless, detailed style in which I have chosen to represent with the concept of controlled chaos. Both Architects have unique styles, but at the same time share many of the similar techniques. I have used these two concepts to construct and mold my monuments into a piece of art. The meeting space is in the middle of the two monuments. There is a long stretched cantilever that leads to the meeting square that overlooks the lake. By placing the meeting place here, the viewer is capable of admiring both monuments at the same time. They are also able to watch how the natural light enters both of the monuments and how their shadows reflect on the snow. The details I have used to develop my monuments are vital to the other structure. Toyo Ito's monument is the one that seems to be floating in the air. The details that I have added to his monument are the two walls that follow the path to the intersection in the middle. The sides of these walls reflect his style of negative space and natural light. The details that I have added to Carlo Scarpa's monument, located on the opposite side, are the three rectangles on each side of the walls and the details engraved into the small cantilever on the top of his monument. Both Architects incorporate natural light into much of their work; therefore, I have placed my monument in the specific angle so insure the sun enters throughout the day.

36 Textures varying from Light-Medium-Dark:

18Axonometrics Sketches:

 

 

6 Combination Sketches:



 

"Why still speak of the real and the virtual, the material and immaterial? Here these categories are not in opposition, or in some metaphysical disagreement, but more in an electroliquid aggregation, enforcing each other, as in a two part adhesive."

- Lars Spuybroak, [1998] Motor Geometry, Architectural Design, Vol 68 No 5/6, p5 

 

 

5 Final Image Captures:

 

Textures are used to represent the transition of light and dark. The dark texture was created to represent Scarpa’s interest in detailed concrete textures. The light texture was created to represent Ito’s light and weightlessness style.

 Two Architects with two different techniques are used as inspiration to create two monuments, combined as one. Together they are separate, but together they are one. It is the simple, similarities  that balance and connect the two monuments

 

Together, the monument becomes one with its surrounding. The shadows casted on the terrain from the trees and the negative spaces in the wall are very similar. This shows the connection between the living and the nonliving.

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