Place and Placelessness - Leong Jiang Ling 1001436853
"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light"
In genius loci, there is a spirit in a certain place or nature place and mostly architect used this as a weapon to design a building. Our everyday life consists of "phenomena" that include feelings.
Place-based design meaning that something more than an abstract location that means a totality made up of concrete things having material substance, shape, texture and color.
And from my current design, I bring in the place-based into my design that suitable for the concept of adaptive reuse of a building.
From this project, I create a different slender facade for it to show from my previous project, the "Connection Tunnel".
It is an idea that we used this tunnel to connect to each other parcel and it brings different of the culture to it. To meet the requirement of adaptive reuse, I didn't change so much for the space inside the old building and I also didn't change the original existing column to remain its settlement. "If the settlements are organically related to their environment, it implies that the serve as foci where the environmental character is condensed and explained."
From another side of the facade, I still remain the old one is because to let people feel that the old building does not disappear, and it still exits. The old facade also is one of the signatures of this location. "The location plus everything that occupies that location seen as an integrated and meaningful phenomenon."
Inside the plan, there are many different spaces for different activity and it remains the original space size to let people feel that there is no much different from the old building before, to let people feel the spirit of the space. "Space is never empty but has content and substance that derive both from human intention and imagination and from the character of the space."
Place-based design meaning that something more than an abstract location that means a totality made up of concrete things having material substance, shape, texture and color.
And from my current design, I bring in the place-based into my design that suitable for the concept of adaptive reuse of a building.
From this project, I create a different slender facade for it to show from my previous project, the "Connection Tunnel".
It is an idea that we used this tunnel to connect to each other parcel and it brings different of the culture to it. To meet the requirement of adaptive reuse, I didn't change so much for the space inside the old building and I also didn't change the original existing column to remain its settlement. "If the settlements are organically related to their environment, it implies that the serve as foci where the environmental character is condensed and explained."
From another side of the facade, I still remain the old one is because to let people feel that the old building does not disappear, and it still exits. The old facade also is one of the signatures of this location. "The location plus everything that occupies that location seen as an integrated and meaningful phenomenon."
Inside the plan, there are many different spaces for different activity and it remains the original space size to let people feel that there is no much different from the old building before, to let people feel the spirit of the space. "Space is never empty but has content and substance that derive both from human intention and imagination and from the character of the space."
Reference
Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Genius Loci, Towards a phenomenology of Architecture, p.6-79, Rizzoli New York, 2000, http://acrossmundi.blogspot.my/2009/03/norberg-schulz-christian-genius-loci.html
Christian Norburg-Shulz, Excerpts From Genius Loci: Towards A Phenomenology Of Architecture, First Published in 1979.
E.Relph, Excerpts From Place And Placelessness, Frist Published in 1976.
Kathryn Moore, Genius Loci: Hidden Truth Or Hidden Agenda, First Published in 2003
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