Porch: Court: Hearth
The Egyptians and the Greeks shaped powerfully evocative buildings, but seldom were these buildings meant to contain groups of people; public life was conducted in the out-of-doors, among these sculpted architectural objects, and the buildings’ constricted interiors were the domain of a priestly and social elite (Roth, 247). These three terms are some of the basic fundamentals of a structure. They allowed us to evolve from the interior being private to designing the interior for public use. Porch to me means the entryway to a home or something that you go through, such as a portal. Court to me means a place to gather or a public place, such as a living room or dinning room. Hearth to me means the part that is not seen but is still very important to the structure, such as a bedroom or a private study, thus derived from the hearth of a fireplace, which to me means the heart or core of the structure. And I’ve shown this by providing a floor plan that I found that demonstrates the idea well.
When I think of composition I think of music, but it can also mean parts of a whole, which kind of still relates to the composition of music, smaller parts coming together as one. One reason why the Romans attached great importance to public architecture, both enclosed spaces and public spaces, was from the beginning, Roman civilization focused the city as its basic constituent element (Roth, 247). Meaning that they focused on the bigger picture at hand. When I think of this term I can’t help but to think of the Found in translation project in studio, because we are now combining four different ideas and redefining those ideas into one structure. There are many parts to this project because the beginning of the project all started with a single story, and since the essence of the stories were captured, they have since been constantly abstracted throughout the process of the project.
Diagram
Roman engineers built a network of roads linking all parts of the empire, from the Portuguese coast to the ends of Turkey and Syria; if a stony mountain outcrop loomed in the way, they simply cut through it (Roth, 250). Diagram to me means a series of small images combined with text to unite, creating a clear idea or central theme. And while my team was working on the portal project we ran into some bumps in the road, such as composing the portal, how the portal would connect with the wall, and another detail that would be added to the portal. So upon discovering these dreadful problems I composed a simple diagram illustrating our problems and how we were going to fix those problems. I linked parts of the project together and when something got in my way I worked through it.
Impression
Impression to me means the feeling that one gets when entering or experiencing a space or a structure. When we were doing our studio project of creating a passageway, they told us to imagine that we were passing through or approaching the structure, to make sure that we captured the essence of not only our assigned word but of our structure entirely.
Details
Details are perfections of the human senses, meaning that usually details can appeal to all of the senses. We could smell, touch, see, or even taste some details, as odd as it may seem. Usually when we see a structure we automatically see the essence or the basic shape of the structure, but when we get closer to the structure we begin to notice that there is even more to the structure. We notice what the structure is made of, the texture of those materials, and even the scent that they give off. For my detail I chose a detailed drawing that we did in Suzanne’s class, and my detailed drawing is of the EUC. It is only a 3” by 3” drawing and it is of the windows that run along the front of the structure.
It all starts with the basic fundamentals, then leading into smaller parts that contribute to the whole, thus taking us to the part where refining and analysis come into play, and our last stop is the perfection process where we define our idea to appeal to the senses. Finally all of these terms come together the further advance our world of architecture. To make it even better, placing the unimaginable above us, but not out of reach.
