Architecture: Design Notebook

ROOF Thefirstquestiontoaskiswhethertheroof should assume a major visual role or whether it should remain obscured behind a parap ...

maximum visual effect from the simply utilitar- ian (Figure 5.10). And how will the roof turn a corner? Will the chosen eaves de ...

as part of a design strategy. It is possible to place a continuous rooflight at a roof’s ridge simply within the roof plane, ele ...

OPENINGS Planning the pattern of openings in an external wall has long exercised the designer’s imagi- nation; the classical lan ...

or suppression, and how structure interacts withopeningswithinthefabric,canprofoundly influence the elevational outcome of build ...

cladding which looks as if it is loadbearing, suggesting that the designer has had other priorities in fashioning the elevationa ...

and cladding so that the two systems appear visually, and therefore ‘read’ as, functionally separate (Figure 5.24). However, the ...

lation ducts, or movement via staircases, lifts and escalators. But many designers have sought to express not only structure but ...

Farrell uses simple means of achieving this like intensifying the fenestration pattern and introducing increasingly decorative b ...

SCALE In this discussion of how designers can deter- mine how their buildings look, architectural scale has been alluded to. But ...

so that (either consciously or unconsciously) we learn to make judgements about a build- ing’s dimensions by constant reference ...

(Figure 5.34), and as we have already seen, architects were drawn to exposing structural and constructional elements to break do ...

Depending upon the intention of the designer, scale may be manipulated in quite distinct ways which leads us to four established ...

Heroic scale Heroicscale isthe converseof intimatescalein that rather than enhancing the ego of the user, it seems to diminish i ...

ing a giant order of columns supporting a free- standing entablature (Figure 5.41). In more recent times, architects have exploi ...

also employed the idea of shock scale for Surrealist effect. Context Sofar,wehavediscussedhowthearchitectcan manipulate scale to ...

in the Economist’s first-floor banking hall, given further prominence by its escalator access. By way of a linking device, the e ...

The clear message in these two examples is that the tenets of modernism may be applied successfully to the most sensitive of con ...

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6 THE SPACES AROUND Our judgements of towns and cities tend to be based much more upon the nature of spaces between buildings th ...