POLYCHROMY Graduate Thesis Winter 2018 | Viola Ago
debate of
polychromy
and Surface |
Gottfried Semper
(in architecture)
Space:
Architecture itself holds multi-faceted attributes of art and technology, structure and adornment, ideal and actual. Among these, the dichotomy or opposition of structure and adornment is ascribed to its innate nature of co-existing twodimensional and three-dimensional qualities consisting architecture. Thus, color as an element in architecture entailed both in structure and adornment, has been a chronic and ongoing conversation within the discipline for centuries. Historically, the discussion of polychromy of antiquity raised the debate of architecture as an art of three-dimensional surface– the form, as well as two-dimensional adornment.
Polychromy
Concept This research starts from the argument of Gottfried Semper, an architectural theorist and archaeologist, on the color in architecture. To Gottfried Semper, “color clarifies the form
because color provides the artist with a new way to throw the surface into relief.� While Semper’s notion of color is more closely implicated to the coherence with form by the accord between two, in this research, color is regarded as separate layer of element driving design processes.
Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
Polychromy
the color process
Color is, three-dimensionally, registered to endow identity and sequence of space. Varying coloration given to each room differentiates one room from another through altering perception of interior space. Then, the units consisted of the constructed sequential rooms are aggregated orderly. The coloration of the aggregation is flattened to be read two-dimensionally, color implementing the role of defining territory–new sets of units.
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Coloration of space is a crucial layer of visual information in perceiving and understanding the space. Apart from actual three-dimensional space, coloration of surface can generate annotation of different read of surface. To begin with, the coloration delaminated from the surface starts to operate on its own via orthogonal rotation.
Seven phases of the orthogonal rotation are determined and rooms are laid out in sequence. Basic rules of the layout are 1. no more than two rooms connected to a room thus creating single navigating circulation , 2. being able to navigate through openings.
The sequencing units are aggregated based upon the same rule sets of coloration sequencing. For this specific project, number of sequencing are limited to two sets per floor with no unit being repeated up to fifth floor.
The sequencing aggregation is examined from its planar view, and the territory, or the boundary of a unit, is newly defined based upon its coloration property. The new organization of units are adjusted considering feasibility of circulation or utilization. There are total of 14 units in this specific project.
| ortho rotation coloration
| coloration sequencing units
| sequencing aggregation
| unit re-definition
The project is bridging over two-dimensional property, the coloration, and three-dimensional property, space. Both have potential of impacting on another outside of their classification, coloration can generate new spatial quality as well as space can possess two-dimensional painterly quality.
| unit re-definition_coloration
| coloration sequencing units
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| coloration sequencing units
Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
Polychromy
| new unit plan / elevation
| coloration sequencing units
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bathroom bedroom
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bathroom
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bathroom bedroom bedroom
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kitchen bedroom
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bathroom livingroom kitchen / dining
kitchen / dining
kitchen / dining
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kitchen / dining
kitchen / dining
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livingroom
kitchen / dining
livingroom
kitchen / dining
livingroom bathroom
kitchen / dining
livingroom
kitchen / dining
kitchen / dining
bathroom
livingroom
bathroom bathroom
kitchen / dining
bedroom
| new unit plan / elevation Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
kitchen / dining
Polychromy
The study aims to explore a different perception towards color not merely as an additive adornment to a space, but rather as a medium of claiming and defining territory
through exploiting its three-dimensional and two-dimensional quality. Thus, blurring the dichotomy between constructed space and painterly flatness.
Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
Polychromy
Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
Polychromy
Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
Polychromy
Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018