a way to see the world

The project, which has been presented to us by Professor Luis E. Carranza Phd., Roger Williams University, is an architectural investigation. This is an investigation into making people, rather, us think of our surroundings. An architecture which wakes us from our blase attitude to force us to realise we have been asleep. Only on the rare occasion do we recall how it is we came to be in the very room we now sit. This is an attempt to wake a campus from such a slumber.

This investigation begins with art in the form of a Juan Gris painting.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

the site

So we have the map, and we must treat it as though it were a painting where all the rules and laws of physics may not apply. I should look at the world as though it were an abstract painting...

as I sat in Landscape Architecture today I couldn't help but realize the topic was very close to the topic I want to focus on; paths, or what moves us.
I was immediately drawn to the "hole in the canvas" at the library where I began to see Harvard or rather the ground-plain of Harvard as more of a porous thing like fabric that everything either sat on or, in the case of the library, below.
I have three objects i want to concentrate on here: the buildings and their inter-play with the ground plain, the ground plain itself and how it has been treated as though it were a fabric, and, finally, the paths. these I feel are rather important; leading us to prominent intersections where we can see certain views or buildings, give us place markers or just change our direction. these paths are the most important for me right now and will be what I will most work on.
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  1. luisOctober 8, 2010 at 6:08 PM

    chris, there was something very interesting about the earlier drawing that you showed me (re. the "floating" buildings, forms, etc.) that is not here... why? maybe it had to do with a thin condition of the site as articulated before...?

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