In my first art class in high school I had been thrown into Art III with little knowledge of the terms or art. One of the bits first I learned and easily comprehended was Composition. Then, composition meant the arrangement of the subject matter on a page that allows the eye to follow though without major distractions. I now know that composition is more than the arrangement of “things”. In design and architecture composition is so much more and is taken to a large and more personal level in that it can be interacted with and changed. Composition is now the arrangements of parts to become a whole and in design it goes hand in hand with circulation and how one moves smoothly throughout the space.
Porch – Court – Hearth
“…tripartite arrangement that begins with the reception spaces and is followed by the great hall and a private section.” (Blakemore 6) Structures all throughout history and the modern times all have a porch, court, and hearth in a way. In Greek temples the porch was the entrance into the structure, the court was the gathering area that is first seen after walking into the building, and the hearth was an alter where a statue of a Greek god or goddess would stand for praise. In modern day homes there is also a porch, court, hearth system. Most if not all homes now have front or side porches in which someone enters into the structure from. This porch generally leads to the court are which contains the living room, kitchen, and dining room area. And finally the hearth is considered the hearth because it is special to the own and only a select few may enter into the area.
Diagram
In design diagrams help with the organization of information that can help to show the circulation of a space is or should be. In Perception and Communication we are creating diagrams of the building we were assigned to study. In my bubble diagram I showed the importance of the placement of each department in relation to each other. I found that the round desk in the middle of the room has an important connection to all locations in the building. With the desk being in the center it is the first thing people flow to in order to acquire information about which department they need to go to next. Thus, all of the departments have a strong relationship to the front desk but they do not have as much importance to each other.
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Impression
Design is about the impression that the designer leave with the viewer. It is something that has been pressed into the person’s mind and they will remember as time goes on. Much like the ruins of Pompeii which had been imprinted into history and preserved under volcanic ash. The Egyptians, Greek, and Romans also left their impressions on architecture because the ideas they discovered, invented, and evolved lead to and can still be observed in the architecture of today.
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Detail
When one is asked for details they are being asked for more specific, refined and up-close ideas. In history we learned that the Roman and Greeks paid close attention to the details of their statues and columns making them exquisite and lifelike. Stone masons focused greatly on detail when designing the classical orders and, especially in the Corinthian and Composite columns, paid close detail to the extravagance that they placed on and of their structures. In Perception and Communication we focused on the specific details of out assigned buildings. In the Mossman Building, above each department, there are labels of the departments and I focused on the style of the letters.
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