... buildings that use limestone/marble/alabaster as a cladding material for its translucency.
More specifically, i'm looking for variations on the structural attatchments and the inevitable expression of the joints as structure.
There's Moneo's Miro Museum, SOM's Princeton library...
And, two minutes ago i had my damned drafting dots in my hand and now they're nowhere to be found. If anyone knows where i put them, this would help as well.
SOM library at Yale... Thanks for the correction and the Hairiri link.
I found me dots.
I keep thinking there's some marble guy somewhere with a welder buddy and they built a house that is nothing but a delicate overexpression of thier craft, like one of them Discovery Channel dream houses...hmm... and they've got the secrets...i'll keep looking.
rene gonzalez, architect. who is apparently real good with the "unique level of critical thinking and extraordinary attention to detail". his self -promotion on the website is annoying but the architecture tain't bad at all.
and
by harry seidler. unfortunately no supports visible...
i remember seeing something somewhere just as you describe but for the life o me can't find it. keep on truckin.
Yeah, that Rene Gonzalez image almost should have been the header for the thread. It almost inspires the thread topic. It appears the architect beame too fixated on an idea and the clients went for it.
The material effect of translucent stone i think might be mostly psychological. There's a weightiness to it, it seems, a mass. Stuff you can really break your teeth on. I consider the idea that, given how thin marble is sheared to achieve desird translucencies, if not for the weightiness, permanence of it that, at a pedestrian scale is being used to "break teeth" and be touched, it seems appropriate to use synthetic materials to achieve the same, if not better, lighting effects and building skin.
Good references i appreciate it.
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limestone for its translucency
... buildings that use limestone/marble/alabaster as a cladding material for its translucency.
More specifically, i'm looking for variations on the structural attatchments and the inevitable expression of the joints as structure.
There's Moneo's Miro Museum, SOM's Princeton library...
And, two minutes ago i had my damned drafting dots in my hand and now they're nowhere to be found. If anyone knows where i put them, this would help as well.
~marlin
Also Moneo's Our lady of the Angel Cathedral - Alabaster Cross.
Yale Library...now which library is it at Yale....ya the one where they store the old books.
beinecke rare books
marble
Beinecke Library at Yale
Beinecke again
ok never mind
nice slide show. thanks, thuh. hadn't seen that much of that building before.
Yeah, it's pretty eerie in person......Funny thing...when we were there we didn't realize there was another floor...too busy admiring the walls.
SOM library at Yale... Thanks for the correction and the Hairiri link.
I found me dots.
I keep thinking there's some marble guy somewhere with a welder buddy and they built a house that is nothing but a delicate overexpression of thier craft, like one of them Discovery Channel dream houses...hmm... and they've got the secrets...i'll keep looking.
after a quick google search:
rene gonzalez, architect. who is apparently real good with the "unique level of critical thinking and extraordinary attention to detail". his self -promotion on the website is annoying but the architecture tain't bad at all.
and
by harry seidler. unfortunately no supports visible...
i remember seeing something somewhere just as you describe but for the life o me can't find it. keep on truckin.
...retrieving the posts. Thank you.
Yeah, that Rene Gonzalez image almost should have been the header for the thread. It almost inspires the thread topic. It appears the architect beame too fixated on an idea and the clients went for it.
The material effect of translucent stone i think might be mostly psychological. There's a weightiness to it, it seems, a mass. Stuff you can really break your teeth on. I consider the idea that, given how thin marble is sheared to achieve desird translucencies, if not for the weightiness, permanence of it that, at a pedestrian scale is being used to "break teeth" and be touched, it seems appropriate to use synthetic materials to achieve the same, if not better, lighting effects and building skin.
Good references i appreciate it.
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