the monastic cell
wooden cover wooden shell brick base concrete flooring raised wooden level
materialisation
The primitive hut
Arguably the first essay expressing an architectural idea. In a time of ornament, the essay describes the defining border between the human and the natural. Geometric shapes in natural materials defining the border between inside and outside. Materials such as wood and stone.
The man is willing to make himself an abode which covers but not buries him (...). Pieces of wood raised perpendicularly, give us the idea of columns. The horizontal pieces that are laid upon them, afford us the idea of entablatures (...). The little rustic cabin that I have just described, is the model upon which all the magnificence’s of architecture have been imagined.
Priorij Emmaus, Maarssen
Jan de Jong paid much attention to how different architectural element (the beam, the column, the base) interact with each other to define borders. The individual element creates the ensemble as much as the ensemble creates the individual element. Creating, in term, a clear and readable architectural language. purity readable elemental natural sober essential
warm grey concrete
dark grey aluminium desaturated CLT wood
vertical brick
horizontal brick
