Form and Space
Posted by Melissa De Freitas | Posted in | Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Just had a debriefing on my first design project. Didn’t go too bad for a first attempt. The brief required a design of two buildings that were set in two different landscape, being self-same to each other. No program was required, but a definite inside and outside space needed to be obtained.
Buildings are either stereometric or stereotomic. Stereometric being a design that has been carved into its landscape, very dense, heavy. Where as a stereotomic design, is set above ground level, with a clear system grid, integrating itself with its surroundings.
1) My first design was set in an arid landscape. Its impure geometric form sets in apart from nature and explores a sense of natural. It’s monumental through its weight and timelessness through the choice of material.
Buildings are either stereometric or stereotomic. Stereometric being a design that has been carved into its landscape, very dense, heavy. Where as a stereotomic design, is set above ground level, with a clear system grid, integrating itself with its surroundings.
1) My first design was set in an arid landscape. Its impure geometric form sets in apart from nature and explores a sense of natural. It’s monumental through its weight and timelessness through the choice of material.
(Model 1)
2) My second approach was set in a romantic landscape. Its openness and pure geometric floating forms, is unassuming, creating a space that is in the round, no directionality. I light weight approach in the choice of material, integrating itself with nature subsequently being in itself ephemeral.
(Model 2)
The designs are self similar to each other by the use of the concret frame holding the buildings down. A self-same design would be linked by the choice of material and geometric forms. This will have tobe work on for my portfolio as their is not enough self-sameness within the designs.
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