La Cosa: Epitome of a Good Life

ELENA ROCCHI ARCHITECT/TEACHING ARTIST/VISITING PROFESSOR

ASU

april, 28th,

ADE 422 FINAL REVIEW

LA COSA: EPITOME OF A GOOD LIFE

AN EXCAVATED PLAN A project would start with a site plan, showing a building footprint, travel ways, parking, drainage facilities, sanitary sewer lines, water lines, trails, lighting, and landscaping and garden elements, ‌ with a graphic representation of the arrangement of buildings, parking, drives, landscaping and any other structure that is part of a development of a project. But the architecture of Paolo Soleri cannot be understood as site plan, because it is an excavated plan. Almost archeological‌

WE ARE HAPPY ON TATOOINE

DRAWING OF COSANTI, PAOLO SOLERI

Buildings added in a “bricolage” fashion

PAOLO SOLERI BY THE EARTH HOUSE

Most of these structures were built using the earth-casting method. Concrete was poured over preshaped (curved and sometimes colored with cement pigments) earthen forms, and the earth excavated once the concrete solidified.

WEEK 1

ASSIGNMENT 1: REFLECTIONS (Individual)

Paolo Soleri’s relation with water, Rural Architecture in Italy Architecture as reconciliation in between Man and Environment, Canalization of rain water in ancient world.

CASTING SOLERI 1 WEEK 2

ASSIGNMENT 2: DRAWING SOLERI I (Group of 2) Site and Topography of the excavation @Cosanti

CASTING SOLERI 2 WEEK 3

ASSIGNMENT 3: DRAWING SOLERI II (Group of 2) SKETCHES OF THE EARTH HOUSE

CASTING SOLERI 2 WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT 3: DRAWING SOLERI II (Group of 2) Silt Pile examples of Architecture @Cosanti