23.10.12

Perceptual Apparatus


Photos from mapping


The visible effects of darkness


Perceptual Apparatus

In search of an angle


Sketches from pre-mapping.



16.10.12



"Therefor glass should hardly be reduced to continuity of clarity, but should be considered as a veiling, the most ambiguous gesture that modern architecture has got produced: the erotic transit that promises the possibility of movement from one state to another. Transit, or Heideggerian unfolding, is based on the tension between the veil and that which it covers, between the visible and the invisible. Perceived as such, architecture is able to use and condense meaning rather than separate and clarify it, and thus evoke the symbolic and poetic within the modern tradition"
                                                

The light construction reader - s. 281

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Material exhibited




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Translucent, though not transparent


Model 1:20

                                                                           


The natural illumination inside is created through a translucent, though not transparent glass-facade. The placement of the large lamps in front of the glass-wall, which are taken to use when amount of natural light decreases, manipulates the internal understanding of the external reality, making the opening a filter of imagination.

Externally, the only visualization of life inside is a play of shadows, depending on placement/strength of internal sources of light, as well as distance to the glass facade.

It is an introverted design without regards to context.

                                                                           



The natural illumination



15.10.12

[Maison De Verre]

Mass in mass

Model 1:50

The house was built in a void, wrapped by previously existing buildings, connecting forecourt to the rear garden. 

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Representative drawings


      I.


The opening_Combination of axonometric and technical drawing to best visualize the relation of the chosen exerpt.

                                                                           


    II.


A visualization of the filtration of light through the different materials, and their versatile expression depending on placement in relation to the glass facade.