LUM I NOSI T Y
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• photographic study of light
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• luminosity
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• Precedents
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• philosophical meaning of the light
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• lingual meaning of reflection
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• case study
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PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AMBIENT LIGHT (DAY)
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PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AMBIENT LIGHT (NIGHT)
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Luminosity 1. The quality of being intellectually brilliant, enlightened, inspired, etc.: The luminosity of his poetry is unequalled. 2. Astronomy the intrinsic brightness of a celestial object (as distinct from its apparent brightness diminished by distance) ‘Altair has ten times the luminosity of th sun’ 3. Physics the rate of emission of radiation, visible or otherwise. Philosophical meaning of the light Light is present, light is being, and light is love. Light is a pathway to find love. Everything in the whole universe identifies with its opposition. Compresence of the silence is only through explosion, without the winter, summer will be meaningless and light is sensed only through the absolute darkness. Light is the treasure of presence when you can find yourself in the moment not the past or the future. The fact is that the past is a dream so is the future, therefore, we are all surrounded with the present and to find the moment is to find the light in your heart. Living in the moment brings the luminosity of the conciseness in to the life and it transfers itself to energy and creation so it inspires art, legend and science. 9
Case study The nature of human is to communicate with his surroundings through his five senses: Sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell (olfaction), and touch (somatosensation). Luminosity in architecture is the communication of the man with his environment by the sense of vision through the reflected light. Luminosity is expressed through space, form and material. Light will brighten the darkness and gives it an identity. In the other word, the darkness will revive through the light.
The Jewish museum in Berlin by Daniel Libeskind is a good example of influence of the natural light in architecture which can drag human through history with challenging the emotions. The use of rough, cold, raw concrete as the main material, the long empty corridors with only e few opening to get the natural light inside of the building and the void of artificial lightings express feelings of absence, emptiness, and invisibility – expressions of disappearance of the Jewish Culture. The entrance of natural light into the darkness of the space illustrates the darkness and also that even in the darkest moments of life where you feel like you will never escape, a small track of light restores hope. It was the act of using architecture through the paradoxical completion of luminosity and darkness as a means of narrative and emotion providing visitors with an experience of the effects of the Holocaust on both the Jewish culture and the city of Berlin.
The affection of the light in architecture is irrefutable. Luminosity is the nature of the existence and use of the natural light in architecture is more like the quiddity of the light. Zaha Hadid’s light study is more through artificial lighting in form and material. Even though she express the different feelings through the light but it feels like its missing the purity of the nature of the light itself.
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SPACIAL DIAGRAMS
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VIEWS, DESIGN 1
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INTERNAL VIEWS DESIGN 1
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PRECEDENTS
Constellations are fascinating, the repartition of stars that one can see on clear night sky or on Hubbles pictures as an inspiration. It refers to the stochastic mass dear to Iannis Xenakis. The holes are drilled a many different angles, in order to be active at different hours of the day and season. The intend was to drill holes to the limit of the structural integrity of the wood panel.
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Lingual meaning of reflection 1. [countable] an image that you see when you look in a mirror or other shiny surface 2. [uncountable] careful thought about something plural] formal your reflections on something are your ideas or opinions about it that you have thought about carefully 3. [countable] something that clearly shows something 4. [uncountable] physics the process of reflecting light, sound, or image
The philosophical meaning of reflect
The recognition of every particle in the univers with the 5 human senses. The early understand quality, quantity and measurement fixes things in human consciousness. This is the immediate tion. The profound perception comes with the precis ognition and creates the moment of reflection. tion appears through contrast, as light appears darkness, in the other word the one is made vis the other’s existence and this unity of opposite the real meaning of being. “The one is only reflected into itself as it is refle the other.”(Shorter Logic) Reflection is revealed in the form of contradicti 19
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Case study Reflection plays it’s rule through material and form. Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron is a capture of the visionary glass culture. The glass is completely in contrast with the old historic brick warehouse below the new structure. Contrast in the materials utilise in the two buildings will reflects the difference of each individual and express the uniqueness of each compare to the other. The fresh contrast to the monotony, plane glass of international style, is a reflection of dynamism expressed through architecture. Architecture is not embodiment of immediate perception it is the embodiment of reflected meaning through contrast.
In Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum, reflection comes along contrast with environment, history and the nature of the buildings (settlement). The unique, curvy, titanium structure of the museum is completely in contrast with the environment and it distinguishes the building with its surrounding. Guggenheim museum is counted as Deconstructivism style which is a huge contrast to Modernism as the main point in history of architecture. The dynamic composition of forms has reinforced the design with distinctive dynamic image which varies with every cloud and sunbeams. It is in contrast with the settlement of building as it makes the building flew and gives it a sense of dynamism. Architecture is a language, a language that can perform through reflection of light and changes of form and material. 20