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Shaowen Wang: How To Start?
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009. P2 - Room and Narrative. We will discuss one aspect of interpreting and translating pictorial suggestions "accumulated" in Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons. Plate VI) into several possible spatial relations in plan. . Notice that this is only one of the many "attempts" to draw out the . Architectural possibilities either inspired by or embedded in a piece of. Valentina Ricciuti, " Architectural Scripts,". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). ARCH1201-2009(UNSW) - SHAOWEN WANG'S STUDIO.
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Shaowen Wang: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009. 1309 - 1316, France (Paris). As it is easier to understand what is geometry in general, the geometry in architecture demands certain understanding of history. In this beautifully didactic illustration, geometry can be understood in two parts of a whole: the measuring instruments(a set-square and a compass), and the world of triangle, circle, square, and rectangle. The painting connotes a real world and an abstracted world that signify one and another. Quoted from: Christian Hubert.
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Shaowen Wang: April 2009
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Getting Inside - Micro Environment. These are a series of engraving, fresco and paintings depicting St. Jerome in His Study. It is essential for you to explore the "ways" to get inside of an architectonic object at this stage. Narrative constructed from the reading of your selected painting is just a beginning to launch a simultaneously inward and outward search for a project. Can it be a series of opposites held together by a vertical structure, sort of a metaphysical "tower"?
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Shaowen Wang: Wall
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Theme 1 - The Cutting. In my buildings, walls play a dual role, serving both to reject and affirm. This tense relationship between inside and outside is based on the act of cutting (as with a sword). Which to the Japanese is not cruel and destructive but is instead sacred; it is a ceremonial act symbolizing a new disclosure. To the Japanese this act has become an end in itself. It provides a spiritual focus both in space and time. In that tense moment, an object.
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Shaowen Wang: Opening-Variations of a Theme
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Monday, April 6, 2009. Opening-Variations of a Theme. Wall Section With Opening(s):. Drawing of a handle for ceremonial door of Mill Owner's Association Building, Ahmedabad, Le Corbusier(1954). Section through niche Norte-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier (1950-54). Norte-Dame, Cathedral of Amiens (1220-1269): wall system, vaulting and buttressing. Light Revealed, or, How To Stage Light:. Norte-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier (1950-54). Le Corbusier, Toward a New Architecture. Open eyes that looks.
