Map Project

Monticello


Unit: Foundation

Scale: Artifact

Form: Word

Aspect: Symbol



Rockefeller Centre

Unit: Reflections

Scale: Place

Form: 3D

Aspect: Nature



Schroder House

Unit: Alternatives

Scale: Space

Form: Paragraph

Aspect: Material



Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Unit: Explorations

Scale: Building

Form: 2D

Aspect: People



Precedent analysis

Artifact-Monticello

Monticello, designed by Thomas Jefferson under high influence of an Italian renaissance building principles, in particular buildings by a famous architect Andrea Palladio. It is one of the monumental masterpieces that can be easily captured and understood in terms of shapes, starting from the construction of a octagonal dome which reflected building skills and difficulties of renaissance mathematical calculations and all of the artisanal works on decoration.

Space-Schroder House

There is no fixed perception about space in the house. It may be perceived from outside at some level but you may get lost as you enter the house. From outside you may get familiar to what De Stijl is characterized with, bold simple shapes manifested by deep voids, basic colors most notably black and white and with few exemptions from shades of gray. Inside the house, what anybody may expect is what is well known as “form follows the function” but mixed with the notion of “The house is a machine for living.”

Building- Guggenheim, Bilbao

One of the masterpieces in contemporary art and architecture is without a doubt the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. It definitely is a building that will correspond to physical human needs without disrupting the impact that environment gave to the building. It is enough to mention the game between organic contours of titanium panels and Nervion River; it looks like they were made for each other.

Place- Rockefeller Centre

Place is what determines the construct and forms, the way this structure is built. Its boundaries consist of a streets pattern, to be more precise it is an urban-planning regulation that gives shape to the building. From the context of usage, it is a high-rise building and as it rises up there is a manipulation of the basic rectangular shape on the base. It goes to be more flexible on its volume and all the way to the top, on the four sides; it becomes a postponed gradually from its initial line of the façade.