Did I just find my building program? Jaw actually dropped when I read what this “Reanimation Library” is about.
what if a church became a parking lot?
(too cartoony?) (rainbow much?)
paper-or-plastic replied to your photo:I think I’ve got some baller diagrams going on….
How do you quantify things like “significance?”
A very good question and one addressed on a page I didn’t take a screengrab of. I’m using “significance” here specifically architecturally, that is, if the designer/architect was famous (locally or more broadly) or had a strong influence on the area, or if the design is representative of a particular time-period, building technology, or such. At the “center” or the “zero values” are in fact other terms; the opposite of “significant” is “standard,” any run-of-the-mill not particularly notable construction. In my essay, I likened this characteristic to how people sometimes say “Architecture with a capital A.”
The other words “hidden” in the center are fragment, altered, standalone, non-historic, and unmaintained. Try to guess which goes with which! (the last two are rather obvious)
So the hexagon represents 6 duality/spectrums which are grouped graphically in a way that makes some relationships more evident and, on the right page, facilitates comparison between current value and the impact of proposed changes/improvements/new uses.
More of an answer than you wanted!!
reminds me of this, which was cited somewhere as an example of bad design, an assessment I disagree with, strongly.
(ps if you know the source of this image please let me know! I saved it on my hd ages ago)
this is extremely relevant to my interests (via anddouglassays)
Every human activity and every human event of which we have knowledge or testimony may claim historical value; in principle, every historical event is irreplaceable. […] It is important to realize that every work of art is at once and without exception a historical monument because it represents a specific stage in the development of the visual arts. In the strictest sense, no real equivalent can ever be substituted for it. Conversely, every historical monument is also an art monument, because even a secondary literary monument like a scrap of paper with a brief and insignificant note contains a whole series of artistic elements—the form of the piece of paper, the letters, and their composition—which apart from their historical value are relevant to the development of paper, writing, writing instruments, etc. […] Were this scrap of paper the only surviving testimony to the art of its time, we would consider it, though trivial in itself, an utterly indispensable artifact.
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Alois Riegl, The Modern Cult of Monuments
Sound familiar? And he wrote it in 1903! This guy!
I have recently become a little interested in fractals as they relate to architecture. This is coincidental to Mandelbrot’s death. See my flying buttresses: 1 and 2.
I’m not exactly sure how this will relate to the rest of my thesis stuff. I think it has a bit to do with Gothic Rationalism, and also the scale and levels of detail in “traditional” buildings as opposed to “Modern” ones.
Also, how contemporary additions to older buildings seem to rely heavily on abstraction (see Boston Public Library). Turns out the opposite of “abstract” is “concrete” but I propose a third option that is even further along the spectrum; if abstract is on the left, this is on the right of concrete. Provisionally called “amplify,” this would address context by increasing it, by taking its principles and exaggerating them. Even more roman than Roman, even more gothic than Gothic. Buttresses on buttresses on buttresses. A Roman column is tripartite. Let’s divide each of those into 3 parts, and then each of those into 3 parts, forever.
I have a fairly substantial essay submission due at the end of the week. Hopefully all this will make sense by then.
(note: not saying that any of my thoughts above are new/original)
More buttress fun. This one ended up not as cool as I imagined though.
Some fun with flying buttresses.
![Well, it seems I can “upgrade” the abstract on Friday. [its for some meet-and-greet, and they want them early to get them all set up. I can sneak around Friday and replace the one pinned up with a new one] This is what I shall submit at 11am, I think. I have all day tomorrow to reconsider, revise, start all over, whatever I deem appropriate. K.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la9vc4Pfv91qz8gyuo1_500.jpg)
Well, it seems I can “upgrade” the abstract on Friday. [its for some meet-and-greet, and they want them early to get them all set up. I can sneak around Friday and replace the one pinned up with a new one] This is what I shall submit at 11am, I think. I have all day tomorrow to reconsider, revise, start all over, whatever I deem appropriate. K.
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