While walking across campus I noticed circular, grouped, and stacked architecture.
CIRCULAR
Circles represent the sun, moon, and sacred spots.
Circular architecture can be seen in the Elliot University Center (EUC) on UNCG's campus.
The EUC is a gathering place for people all over campus. You can buy groceries, meals, books, supplies, and the big auditorium is also located in the EUC. The following sketch is of what the ceiling of the EUC looks like. It's like a tower that extends from the first floor to the highest floor.
GROUPED
Groups of things represent groves or trees, reaching vertical, and groups of people.
Grouped architecture can be seen on almost all of the buildings on campus.
Two examples are the windows on the buildings and the railings outside some of them.
STACKED
Stacks represent mountains, gatherings, and resources.
My favorite example of stacked architecture is seen in the building structure of the library on campus.
The library's architecture seems to represent mountains (from it's height), gatherings (study groups and a lot of people gather there), and resources (books).
(other than the drawing, pictures were taken from the photo gallery on the UNCG website, they were then taken and edited to emphasize the aspects that I felt important.)
I enjoy the fact that you used different visual medium to articulate your writing from the plan diagram to your photos. While you addressed the major points don't forget how each category: circles, groups, and stacks can be applied through many levels of scale and what that means for functionality and human perception.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, you didn't address how the issues of ritual, either how it affect the environment or vice versa.
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