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CHAPTER FOUR
Spatial Typography AN EXHIBITION PAVILION
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etters are inherently abstract shapes assigned meaning by us, weaving a visual language of words, sentences, and so forth. They make no sense outside of literacy. In this studio, we were tasked with the design exercise of defamiliarizing ourselves with these letterforms, allowing for an abstract perception of points, lines, planes, and, subsequently, volume evolving into a habitable space. Architecture Form, space, and Order by Francis D.K. Ching was used as a critical literature review on the exploration of primary elements of form, ordering principles, and spatial organization. Physical study models with a limitation of 1’ X 1’ X 1’ were generated in the first task with the intention of exploring form, spaces, and principles that guide their order, beginning from an exploration of abstracted letterforms. In the schematic exploration, abstracted letters were traced, and primary elements of form were sequentially introduced, commencing with points, followed by one-dimensional lines, then twodimensional planes, and culminating in three-dimensional volumes. PROJECT CATEGORY : YEAR/PART : BASIC DESIGN STUDIO : INSTRUCTOR : LOCATION : ROLE :
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ACADEMIC STUDIO WORK I/II AR 452 LECTURER LUNA BAJRACHARYA, INSTRUCTOR SUMAN MAHARJAN PULCHOWK, KATHMANDU, NEPAL INDIVIDUAL WORK
