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Oriental pop art work
In the past the Roman artist and architect Vitruvius found in the number sixteen the key for the architectural harmony: this number is the only one that, being four times four, represent the pure square: the geometrical figure with four equal sides each one having four units. So the number four became the component of the perfect form: the square. For my work I decided to chose only squared plans developing three different logics. The first one is based on the element of the patio telling the story of this great architectural figure, from the past to the present, from religious uses to secular ones, but always with the same squared shape.
628 d.c - Qasr al-Kharana
2009 - Villa Ordos - Estudio Barozzi Veiga
2008 - Viana do Castelo Municipal Library Alvaro Siza Vieira
2009 - Villa Ordos - OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Architects
1500 - Palazzo Te’ - Giulio Romano
2010 - École Gjilan - Nicolas Simon and Max Turnheim Architects
1918 - Composition number 5 Bart Van der Leck
Always through the harmony of the four sides figure of the square, the second logic I chose tells the story of a conflict between the wall and the space. The relationship between them sometimes is easy, some other times not. By the walls we can define what is interior and what’s esterior, by a wall we can divide something in two or more components. Normally the wall element represent a limit that defines a close space, some other times they give shapes to different directions running out of the same space. We look at walls defining spaces, but sometimes are the second that define the first. But for sure we know one thing: together they are architecture.
2000 - Alentejo House - Aires Mateus
2009 - Villa Ordos - Estudio Barozzi Veiga
2014 - Gago House - Pezo von Ellrichshausen
House N째1 Felipe Combeau and Pablo Alfaro Architects
2012 - House of Music budapest Productora Architects
2005 - Guerrero House Alberto Campo Baeza
Square of Sierpinski
The Square of Sierpinski also knew as Sierpinski Carpet is a fractal form made by a square divided in nine squares in a 3-by-3 grid, and the central subsquare is removed. The same procedure is then applied recursively to the remaining 8 subsquares, ad infinitum. Adapting this process to architecture we have a plan with a bigger central space and all the other smaller spaces with the same shape but not the same size. This geometrical graduation can brilliantly solve the problem of having different functions in the same building, keeping each one of them separated but at the same time all together at the same language of the whole project.
Ancient mosque plan
1505 - Saint Peter - Donato Bramante
1632 - Taj Mahal - Ustad Ahmad Lahauri
1960 - North Carolina State Legislative Building Edward Durell Stone
1965 - Phillips Exeter Library - Louis Kahn
1717 - Plan for the Margravate of Azilia