Architecture: Design Notebook

climate? Is it important to maintain existing views from the site or will the building construct its own inward-looking prospect ...

components of the programme. Furthermore, it demonstrates how apparently severe pro- grammatic constraints may provide a real sp ...

be virtually consumed by the landscape so that physical intrusion is minimised (Figure 3.7). CHOOSING AN APPROPRIATE ‘MODEL’ Alt ...

departure when the initial ‘diagram’ of the building begins tentatively to emerge is the most crucial and most difficult aspect ...

the ordering device of the orders and simi- larly, the Beaux Artsparti relied on its own canonic devices which effectively order ...

developed into a vernacular typology (Figure 3.10) in which architecture and nature estab- lished a close correspondence, a sour ...

Plan type So much for a broad perspective of typologies as another backdrop to creative activity, but how can we harness specifi ...

often closely associated with specific building types and this linkage between plan and build- ing type has, if less dogmaticall ...

School where a linear plan type not only responded to its London square context but also to the notion of an internal ‘street’ w ...

office type, but has also been able to offer a model at an urban scale for controlling the chaotic growth of our cities. ORGANIS ...

designing in that ideas can be constantly (and quickly) explored and evaluated for inclusion in the design, or rejected. Many co ...

Circulation But apart from expressing an organisation of disparate functional parts, Stirling’s three- dimensionalmodelsexpressi ...

26 Architecture: Design Notebook Figure 3.29 Linear plan, single/dual aspect. Figure 3.30 ‘Race-track’ courtyard plan, dual aspe ...

atrium, or covered courtyard, will itself assume a circulation role (Figure 3.32). Unless the ‘architectural promenade’ is to be ...

28 Architecture: Design Notebook Figure 3.34 ‘Sub-space’ off circulation route, plan/ elevation. Figure 3.35 Tree/circulation an ...

Vertical circulation The location of vertical circulation also contri- butes substantially to this idea of ‘reading’ a building ...

The promenade Closely associated with any strategy for circu- lation within a building is the notion of ‘prome- nade’or‘route’.T ...

transitionfromoutsidetoinside(Figure3.42). Moreover, these devices were reiterated and reinterpreted during the twentieth centur ...

The exemplar By the late 1920s Le Corbusier had developed the notion ofpromenade architecturaleto a very high level of sophistic ...

timeconcealsthe‘service’elementsoftheplan like service stair, servants’ quarters at ground floor and kitchen at first floor to e ...