Spectacle Parking

Unit analysis

Nomadic Re-situation

Circulation analysis

nomadic device [line drawings]

sydney opera house

detail and poetry

1. As the technique of detailing changed from the hands of the craftsman to the tools of the architect, how has the resulting construction of details changed? Explain in terms of scale, material and cost.

The technique of detailing has definitely changed; especially in the past couple of years were technology plays a big role in our future. Before, craftsman would have a closer relationship with the material and pay extra attention to detail. On the other hand, architects have more contact with the use of tools and technology. During the industrial revolution, people complained about how the detailing technique was lost by the use of machinery. I think people still depend more on the use of technology and that’s why that personal effect made by hands of a craftsman is lost.

2. How does "geometrical relationship" of individual details provide an understanding of the whole building if "indirect vision" localizes the viewer and "habit determines to a large extent even optical reception"?

The geometrical relationship simply gives you a better understanding of the building

3. Carlo Scarp's details are a "result of an intellectual game" where the Open City buildings are constructed from an act of poetry. Describe what role the detail plays to "tell-the-tale" in each of these environments.

4. Pendleton-Jullian writes about the Open City as emerging from and being in the landscape. Does allowing landscape to initiate "the configuration of territory and space" challenge Western building notions, and how so?

5. Describe some detail conditions of the Open City that convey "lightness" as Pendleton-Jullian refers to.