This is one representation of layering within an architectural sense. Taking one simple form and transforming it one step at a time until the beginning form is almost unrecognizable. This is not sequence in the manner in which we experience a building as we approach, enter, move through etc. Building elevations are complete and fixed when we encounter them. However, by studying how an elevation is created through layering, it helps to understand how place is encountered in plan or in vignette. A space or building constructed through spatial principles should wash over the user in registered waves, rather than a single crash. This allows us to ease into our own comfort level and make our own determinations and judgements in regards to the space.
These work much better when cycled through in windows viewer...
base form
adding the verticals
adding the horizontals
openings...
ornamentation
entourage
What is interesting in looking at this study is how the original box virtually disappears, but if we were to reverse this pages, we could go back to the box. We always think in design terms of adding layers to create an end product. Is it possible to take some layers away to return to a prior form or arrangement?
I think you've finally pinned down what you've been trying to explain the past few weeks, and I can't wait to see more!
ReplyDeleteIn some ways what you are exploring is similar to Malevich or Kadinsky's experiments in color and space (http://douglaskiley.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/minutes-020910/).
ReplyDeleteYou are noticing a compositional trick our eyes play and how we perceive for differently.
A thesis could explore the way architecture plays with perception or uses formal compositional moves to create new forms but I have a feeling that isn't where you want your thesis explorations to go ...
... in the long run doing the precedent studies or looking at creating environments, that test these notions that are working towards testing a larger goal may be more productive, but it may be more important to step back and do some thinking about what that larger goal is.