Land & Cityscape <=> Architecture in Lines

Land & Cityscape < = > Architecture

in LINES

Our Landscape and our Cityscape is defined out of lines, vertical lines and horizontal lines. Architecture has to adapt to those lines in order to integrate into our Land- and Cityscape. But also our Cityscape can be integrated into our Architecture form a more inside perspective. This small study shows how our Cityscape can be integrated in our buildings to give us a better understanding of it.

Contents: Lines Baroque Contemporary Inside point of view Cityscape comparing Europe & Japan Vertical & horizontal Lines Conclusion

Lines in landscape, cityscape & architecture

Landscape

Ref. 1 Provence, France

Cityscape

Ref. 2 Manhattan, New York

Architecture

Lines in braoque Architecture

>

Landscape

Lines of architecture

-->

landscape

Landscape adapts to architecture.

Versailles 1700

Garden

Building

Ref. 1 Garden of Versailles, France

Le Louvre 1200 1400

Garden

straight lines, symmetrical axis ...

Building

Lines in contemporary Architecture

<

Lines of landscape

Landscape

-->

architecture

Architecture adapts to landscape.

continuing the line

Ref. 1 Paul Klee Museum in Bern, 1998

creating a new line

Ref. 2 Teshima art museum, 2010

Inside point of view

- seen from the outside --> architecture has to reeect the building in its environment.

- seen form the inside --> architecture has to reeect its environment in the building.

Concept :

Land and Cityscape

Architecture

Perception of land and cityscape

Enframing architecture

One line encircles the landscape.

--> The landscape is presented like a picture.

Focusing architecture

Lines are aiming at one point in the cityscape.

--> One point in the cityscape is emphasized.

Panorama architecture

Two round lines are expending the view of the cityscape.

--> The cityscape seems to be endless.

Ref. 1 Teshima Art Museum, 2010

Ref. 2 Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2010

Ref. 3 Niterรณi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil, 1996

Cityscape comparing Europe & Japan The skyline between Europe & Japan

Silhouette homogeneous --> same hight of buildings.

Ref. 1 Berlin

Grouping monocentric --> one «downtown» Ref. 2 Franfort

Contrast various --> different forms Ref. 3 Paris

disorderly --> diďŹ&#x20AC;erent hights of buildings.

Ref. 1 Osaka

polycentric --> spreaded density Ref. 2 Tokyo

similar --> rectangular

Movies & Art

Europe

Japan

Ref. 3 «Akira» 1988 Ref. 1 Venice, 1900 Claude Monet

Ref. 2 «A cat in Paris» ,2010 Ref. 2 “A cat in Paris” 2010

Ref. 4 «Ghost in the Shell» 1995

Ideal of beauty

high designed & sophisticated

quiert

minimalist, only vertical & horizontal lines

unique

repetitiv

Vertical & horizontal lines Japanese cities are composed out of vertical and horizontal lines.

--> Architecture reeectes those lines also in movies.

Ref. 1 «Badman -the dark knight» 2008

Ref. 2 «Tron» 2008

Ref. 3 «Her» 2013

traditionel architecture

Ref. 4 Takashi Yasui

modern architecture

Ref. 5 Mies van der Rohe «Esquisse 1»

Ref. 6 Mies van der Rohe «Esquisse 2»

Conclusion

Modern cities are mostly composed of vertical and horizontal lines.

Mies van der Rohe is using those lines in his architecture to let us better understand the city.

It projects the city in the building and connects those two spaces with each other. (inside and outside) Japanese cities are mostly composed with vertical and horizontal lines too.

Using those lines in interior design can integrate the cityscape in the building and gives us a better understanding for it.

Artwork by Gerhard Richter