FIELD NOTES: Precedent / Type

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geologic mass The mountain as a form in architecture continues to be explored as a potential architectural type, why? Is it its ability to access height, such as that of a building? Is it its capability to act as a building in that it contains many ecosystems and life systems in one, stable, entity? Is it simply the compression of earth and piling of building material? Cumulus looks to the representation of mountains to make explicit notions about quantifying and describing mountains, through collection and comparison, coloration as distinctions between qualities of mass and density, and digitally modeling in purposeful low poly measures to abstract form.

Alexander Von Humbolt,The General Physics of the Earth

Alexander Von Humbolt

Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World

Table of the Comparitive Lengths of the Principal Rivers throughout the World

USGS Geologic Map of the Olympic Peninsula,Washington

USGS Geologic Mao of Bryce Canyon National Park and Vicinity, Southwest Utah

USGS Geologic Section and Plan of Arches National Park

Geologic Strata Section

Low Poly Landscape, Amplify,Timothy J. Reynolds.

glasshouse / hothouse The histories of the glasshouse is one rich in knowledge for how humans position themselves spatillay alongside an indea of nature. From the interior garden to the botanical garden to the hot house to the conservatory, the idea of growth facilitated inside a light trasmitting skin rather than exposed to the elements is one that flows through all these types. By studying the relationships between ground and platings, human circulation and growth, height and atmosphere, as well as simply size and form, these can begin to give way to spatial constraints for the pleasure gardens interior climitized environments.

Serrres

Serres

Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden,William R. Cobb (1899 - 1922)

Temperate House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew England, Decimus Burton (1860-1899)

Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew England, Decimus Burton and Richard Turner (1844- 1848)

Kibble Palace, Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland, John Kibble (1865-1873)

Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool England, Mackenzie & Moncur (1896)

furniture in interior gardens

Ratan and Iron interior garden

L’ Exposition Universelle de 1867

cumulative landscapes Chatsworth, as the prime example of a cumulative landscape, offers a means by which to understand the composition of parts in creating a territorial whole. Chatsworth itself is composed of many many elements, each having their own conection to nature as well as sypatial dynamic of how one occupies and positions themselves relative to nature. By looking at each element individually, we can understand its contribution to the whole.

Chatsworth Grounds Diagram

“A Panoramic View of Chatsworth House and Park” by Pieter Tilleman

Emperor Fountain

The Cascade and Cascade House: a set of stone steps over which water flows from a set of fountains at the top.

Postcard, Joseph Paxton,The Great Conservatory at Chatsworth

Joseph Paxton,The Great Conservatory at Chatsworth

Joseph Paxton,The Lily Pond at Chatsworth

Joseeph Paxton,Willow Tree Fountain

partly underground rooms Partly underground rooms and buildings all take on some aspect of role playing within the context of their respective ground, the ability of spaces to flip-flop in and out of multiple spatial and constructional readings, shuffling between contradictory and conflicting worlds. Burrowing into the earth, these spaces use the MASS of earth itself to support their thermal and/or protective properties, engaging with the land in a way different than the usual building.

Cerveteri Necropolis, Aerial

Cerveteri Necropolis,Tomb interiors and mounds

Sette Sale, Roma (Seven Halls, Rome)

Pozzo di San Patrizio, Orvieto (Well of St. Patrick, Orvieto)

Ghiaccia,Villa Ranuzzi-Cospi, Bagnarola (Icehouse,Villa Rancuzzi-Cospi, Bagnarola)

interior circulatory systems â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the central control tower, movements and transfers of aircraft are observed, plotted, and coordinated so as to maximize the flow across the continuous surfaces of the airfield and its immediate surroundings. As design characteristics of the airport, continuits of surface and the case of visual and physical movement across and through largescale spaces echo the concerns of eighteenth0century landcapists to hide the boundaries within the estate -- for example, by using the sunken fence or ha-ha -- to give the eye an uninterrupted surface to connect house and grounds across a signle sweep of green, smoothed slopes, across whose gently contoured topography a serpentine carriageway led to the entrance... The limits of built space are rarely felt... Perception, clarity, and color alter... movement and viewpoints are strictly controlled.â&#x20AC;? Denis Cosgrove, Airport/Landscape The illusionary landscapes of the English Georgian Estates created a cornucopian world of the imagination, whose references to arcadian perfection and sensual pleasure contrasted with senses of productive space on the actual estate viewed through porticos or framed windows. This was controled and dictated mainly by the circulation thorough both the interior and exterior spaces of the estate. The following examples of circulation are mainly underground spaces, where a space of exception is created when the bulding sinks below the horizon, letting the structure work at angles and meandering ways to reach an end destination.

Lloyd’s Building, Richard Rogers

Christian Kerez, Swiss Re Next

Christian Kerez, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Muttenz, Switzerland, 2011

Norman Foster, Metro Station

Fovam Ter Budapest, Spora Architects

accumulated piles The accumulation of a territory implies a certain formal notion of collection, piling, juxtaposed with the human want to sort, organize, disperse, and rationalize whatever has thus been collected. The follwing examples are both formal ideas and organizational theories towards the act of accumulation and rationalization of nature.

Francois Roche, Spider n the wood house

Anish Kapoor

Roxy Paine, Scumak

Sand Material Distributions, Frye Otto

Slag Heap, France

Slag Heap, UK

“The Berg” Berlin, Postcards of an idealized national icon

“The Berg” Berlin

Landfill

Landfill Cavities

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