I am working on a project that is about two very different scales of design. It's a campus style middle school that is about creating specific architectural relationships to nature both over the whole site and to the individual student.
I'm finding it difficult to make the project work on the larger, 'urban' scale while still being able to incorporate smaller scale interventions in individual spaces. So, I am wondering if anyone knows any examples of projects that combine these two extremes of scale into something that is cohesive. I am not really looking for projects of a similar background to mine, just interesting projects in general.
eliel saarinen's kingswood girls' school. cranbrook is also good, but i think he really nailed multiple scalar relationships between building and nature at kingswood. unfortunately, i have been unable to find good printed documentation of the school. ed ford does a nice chapter on cranbrook in "the details of modern architecture, vol. 2".
Oh I nearly forgot, Steven Holl has written a couple of short essays on this subject, I think he references one in parallax, might be able to find the full version of it somewhere online.
Architecture of Scales - examples
I am working on a project that is about two very different scales of design. It's a campus style middle school that is about creating specific architectural relationships to nature both over the whole site and to the individual student.
I'm finding it difficult to make the project work on the larger, 'urban' scale while still being able to incorporate smaller scale interventions in individual spaces. So, I am wondering if anyone knows any examples of projects that combine these two extremes of scale into something that is cohesive. I am not really looking for projects of a similar background to mine, just interesting projects in general.
This fellow was discussed here a couple of weeks ago, perhaps not quite what you're looking for but worth a shot.
http://www.archinect.com/forum/threads.php?id=71086_0_42_0_C
eliel saarinen's kingswood girls' school. cranbrook is also good, but i think he really nailed multiple scalar relationships between building and nature at kingswood. unfortunately, i have been unable to find good printed documentation of the school. ed ford does a nice chapter on cranbrook in "the details of modern architecture, vol. 2".
Oh I nearly forgot, Steven Holl has written a couple of short essays on this subject, I think he references one in parallax, might be able to find the full version of it somewhere online.
uhmm how much is 50 ft = an inch
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