Notes: Main Ideas/Concepts
- A framework of tensions, both precise and emotive, attention and discomfort
- Conceals and reveals - allows one to see, more relevant than interpretive
- Elements removed with care: acute angles, curved shapes
- Minimalism
- Incisions and superimpositions
- "Architects don't invent anything, they transform reality"
- One has to discover the entrance as an elision between parallel walls rather than a direct opening
- Striving to complement the natural geological structure
- Continuity of the enclosed wall
- Siza: a situationist, old landscapist
- Pre-existing and desire for transformation
- Process of fragmentation
- Abstract configuration
- U-shape: both attitude to form and shape, "flowing spaces"
- Rooms are never never completely enclosed, one corner or side let open to mediate with adjacent, equally permeable compartment
- Dynamic and static space
- Suburban surroundings
- Challenged precedents and conventions
- Environment recede gradually, narrow path along garage stairs, courtyard framed by overgrown walls
- Modern absorbs elements of post-modernism
- Bay window: centralised element
- urban, secondary street, single-house surroundings
- Irregularity: not approved on street fascade
- "Away from the street" - internalised space
- Heights = functions
- Distorted proportion - exaggerated by bay windows
- Compressed garage, extended wall fence
- Steps: slows down movement (turning paths)
- Dominate central axis (axial dominance)
- Inverted angled courtyard
- Public vs. private by simple geometry
- No repetition, bringing together discrete features
- Multiple personality, e.g. twisted column
Source: ARCH1201 Lecture, Catherine Lassen (7th March 2011)
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