tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12668281426089102422024-02-21T17:26:45.644+11:00Interior Architecture Two Twenty One.HANNAJULIAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05818859048171645994noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266828142608910242.post-59531210362948233722009-02-20T16:06:00.015+11:002009-02-20T17:14:28.760+11:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9ZiON1ZskEIlERRjeSJLm_QM7zCyCSpsOWP9FaFuuTXKhthWxsMhGsBSvW_2Vn3h852A0jvQG1olQtKsV1-yNHS2DfMLM02mT8yIe0rM8Md_Iyq3ns9jUKFvOtNwS8rvMU9iteYy5cau/s1600-h/villa-savoye-corner.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9ZiON1ZskEIlERRjeSJLm_QM7zCyCSpsOWP9FaFuuTXKhthWxsMhGsBSvW_2Vn3h852A0jvQG1olQtKsV1-yNHS2DfMLM02mT8yIe0rM8Md_Iyq3ns9jUKFvOtNwS8rvMU9iteYy5cau/s320/villa-savoye-corner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304746786702742754" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEx3wUfZ8Tw1aXpGiZE9AnFioq64tzuN_dCH9g1o1c6EDSj49GM3bbw6SmwEwpXmQnRW5FcFFHWGbbb-rEXkTkLvkv8hFK6dFEGUSahiZZfPR6r9UCJYZ8KM_g-eUcYLgqGj3f94VHfK7b/s1600-h/2473464288_14275caeea.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Le Corbusier's Villa Savoy</span></span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Poissy, France</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">1928-1929</span> </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">International Stlye Villa</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> When looking into a 20<sup>th</sup> century building that has had some sort of influence on me; I immediately thought of Le Corbusier’s Villa <st1:state st="on">Savoy</st1:state> in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Poissy</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>I studied this building in every one of my architecture classes.<span style=""> </span>To me this building has a sort of simplicity about it that describes the International Style of the early to late 20<sup>th</sup> century.<span style=""> </span>To many the façade of Villa <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Savoy</st1:place></st1:state> may be completely mundane; but to me it shows the beauty of Le Corbusier’s 5 point plan:</span></p><ul style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Pilotis</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Ribbon Windows</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Free Facade</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Free Plan</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Rood Garden, or simply the usage of the roof in its entirety</span></li></ul><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"> </div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"> </div><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">A plan that was so new to the architectural scene at this time, that many thought it would fail.<span style=""> </span>His usage of simplicity allowed many at the time to view architecture in a totally different way.<span style=""> </span>Not focusing on the decorative style of architecture; Le Corbusier’s designs focused more on the house as a whole.<span style=""> </span>Simple ribbon windows which give you no insight to the architectural make-up of the interior of the house.<span style=""> </span>The usage of pilotis, giving it an almost light feeling to the Villa.<span style=""> </span>International Style tended to base most of its outside ornamentation through its surroundings.<span style=""> </span>I think that the Villa Savoy gives and receives from its surroundings.<span style=""> </span>Allowing the difference in colors of the trees and grass to play with the almost pure white on the façade of the Villa.<span style=""> </span></span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"> </div><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I personally have always loved Le Corbusier’s work, from his art to his designs within the architectural world.<span style=""> </span>To manage architecture into five key points at a time when there were so many elements to any architectural design, says a lot about the simplicity that he is trying to show from his designs.<span style=""> </span>Le Corbusier’s way of going against the norm, and allowing the design to show through in every architectural element without trying to mask it with ornamentation is something that I think is very important to a great architect and a great design.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span>HANNAJULIAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05818859048171645994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266828142608910242.post-15802752282694577352009-02-19T02:18:00.002+11:002009-02-19T06:01:27.456+11:00Opus<?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><object id="ieooui" classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D"></object><style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style><br /><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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COLOR: rgb(255,255,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Order</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="COLOR: rgb(255,153,0); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Source - any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In design <b>source</b> is used through any idea.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>When working with architecture source is something that is crucial to the development of a building.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Architects and designers are constantly going back and forth to new ideas and old ideas.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>The foundation of ones work has come from another source, and that work from another.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>The source of one piece of architecture gives us insight to what designs and materials were used before.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Pompeii</st1:place></st1:city> is a good example of source because it became a city underground.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Through looking at artifacts and its architecture that have been found, it allows us to really see the basis of their work and where the designs they used may have come from.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Many of our famous architectural designs have been linked back to those of Greek and Roman architecture.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Even our day to day materials that we use to erect buildings, such as concrete, wood, marble; were used in the Greek and Roman architecture.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Source is prominent in the buildings all around us.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It isn’t just something that we refer to it is an element in design that we use.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Archetype-the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Prototype-the original or model on which something is based or formed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hybrid-composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as a word.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">At least when I see these words I think of something that is original, of its own entirety, not to be relying on anything else.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>I think to relate these words to design, and architecture you have to look beyond the model, and look at the community as a whole.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Almost as if you have to dissect each architectural design and look at it through the eyes of the designer or the community who designed it.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Such as the Greeks; their design for their homes tended to have an equal spatial arrangement, which usually included a courtyard. (Blakemore 30) The <b>archetype</b> of this kind of building has set the standard of many different architectural styles today. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b>Prototype</b> is something I learned while in high school learning about art and how to execute it in many different ways; digitally or through manual media.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Through using digital art you had to sometimes come up with a prototype, or what I would say, a sketch of what your work would look like and that is what you would base the rest of your piece off of.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>The Greeks and Romans with their usage of spatial arrangements, materials they composed their buildings of and different interior aspects has been a prototype to our designs in architecture today.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">To be <b>hybrid</b> you essentially have to be made up of the original elements.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>You can take that many different ways when dealing with design.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>I would relate it to the materials that were used by the Greeks and Romans that are still used today in our building types.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Such as different kinds of marble and concrete.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>These materials set the standard to what we use today.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Entourage: a group of attendants or associates, as of a person of rank or importance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hierarchy: any system of persons or things ranked one above another.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">These are obviously the people who make up the design.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>You can’t have an end result in architecture without a group of people working together on the same design.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Using the entire empire was essential to completing the architecture needed for the city.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Even those people that were needed within the homes and establishments after the architectural elements were finished, are still part of an entourage.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b>Entourage</b> also has a lot to do with the way people would decorate their interior spaces.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>If rooms were of less importance within the home, then obviously there wouldn’t be as many decorative elements within that part of the house.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>I feel that the Romans were more focused on ranking being that they paid more attention to the façade of the building and how it looked to the area around it.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Where the Greeks focused more on the way the building coincided with the area around it.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>I feel that entourage and <b>hierarchy</b> go hand in hand when looking at architecture from <st1:country-region st="on">Greece</st1:country-region> and <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Rome</st1:city></st1:place>. The way a home was ranked in wealth was the way it looked.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>It still is like that today, you can tell if a person is wealthy by looking at their home and the decorated interior.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>It was so important to stress the level of hierarchy back in the Hellenistic Age because there was such a distinction between those who were rich and those who weren’t.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Architecture in that day and age helped prove the differences between people, and lifestyles.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Order: a condition in which each thing is properly disposed with reference to other things and to its purpose; methodical or harmonious arrangement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Design is filled with order.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Order in the way you can make a prototype for a certain project; all the way to as something as small as how you order pieces of artwork throughout a home.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">To me order sets limits to ones design.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Greeks and Romans really only had a few layouts to homes and other buildings, because they only knew one order; and only one way to construct these buildings.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">To have order you have constraints, certain constraints that don’t allow you to produce what was your initial idea.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span><b>Order</b>, to me, is essentially what keeps us going back to the styles used in early architecture.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><o:p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong></strong></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>This weeks opus focused on the primary source; something that was original that we stem our ideas off of.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>In the design field people are constantly trying to stretch their mind to come up with newer and better ideas for architecture.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>But no matter how long people are trying to push forward, they will always have to look back at the main source of design, those elements that were first introduced by the Greeks and Romans; because without those architectural fundamentals still being used today, you loose the authenticity of the history within that design.</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">sketches and pitctures will be up by this weekend.</span><br /></p>HANNAJULIAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05818859048171645994noreply@blogger.com0