MELTON, RAISANEN | STUDIO
INSTRUCTOR: ELENA ROCCHI YEAR COMPLETED: FALL 2016 PROJECT NAME: TABULA GROUP MEMBERS: JOSHUA MELTON AND OLIVIA RAISANEN
“The sensitivity to atmospheres is in a way the classic task of the architect. You have to be passionate for architecture as a real thing: the presence of architecture. First of all you have to see it in a reality, be sensitive to each situation. You have to like it… as an architect I am interested in this because I create real things: I am not creating ideas and abstractions. Therefore I have to focus on my material, I have to understand why and when things look the way they do, why this is high and this is dark and this is light.” -Peter Zumthor
Transcending aesthetic, form, and progression, emotion conceives the deepest architectural experience. Effectively designing experiential architecture requires an integrated organization of structure and systems dedicated to delivering atmosphere. Atmosphere is conceived by a culmination of all the senses, which together allow the emergence of emotions within a space. Through the careful examination and defining of eleven different atmospheres, the incorporation of the five senses of humankind, and the utilization of concrete as a material, a phenomenological system of design that encompasses emotion creates a tabula of concrete. Atmospheric Block An entirely new system of architecture inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s textile block. This system of building is reintroduced using concrete and mechanisms held within devoted to the delivery atmosphere. The form is derived from the scripting of a book--allowing the potential for the narrative to be rewritten in a manner that best responds to site and context. Atmospheres Change (see: shelter, hear: soft piano, taste: rosemary, touch: rough walls, smell: rosemary) Madness (see: egg crate, hear: silence, taste: prickly pear, touch: foam on wall, smell: damp concrete) Decay (see: stones underwater, hear: running water, taste: spring water, touch: mossy grass, smell: damp grass) Comradery (see: flickering fire, hear: wood burning, taste: food, touch: warmth, smell: fire, food) Climax (see: camera obscura, hear: water moving, taste: herbs, earthy water, touch: vines, smell: vegetation) Respect: (see: light from fire, hear: steps on steel, taste: mint, touch: cold steel, smell: mint, fresh linen) Love (see: flickering light, hear: music, taste: chocolate, touch: soft linen, smell: roses) Community (see: towel detail, hear: water movement, taste: green wall, herbs, touch: towels, smell: fire, water) Independence (see: sky, water on floor, sink detail, hear: water falling, taste: mouthwash, touch: rough walls, wet floor, smell: wood, fire) Isolation (see: stake floor/ wall, hear: water spraying, taste: water, lavender, touch: wet wood, smell: lavender, wood) Heartbreak (see: darkness, hear: silence, taste: sour berries, touch: burnt form concrete, smell: rotting).
DISCIPLINE
SPRING 2017