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3.  CASTELVECCHIO MUSEUM   CARLO SCARPA  THRESHOLD KEY CONCEPT In 1958, Carlo Scarpa was confronted with the restoration of the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy. This was a 14 th century fortress in the west of the city. The complex had overgone series of remediations over the years. In 1957, Scarpa was appointed as the new architect for the museum, with the position to reinvent various spaces. Scarpa’s practice is reminiscent of ‘Kintsugi’, an ancient Japanese technique of repairing pottery with a gold glue that becomes part of its new identity (Murphy 1990 ) . Scarpa’s interventions at the Castelvecchio are based on relations that Scarpa himself invents for the layers he selects (Murphy 1990 ) . He states, “to allow it (the old fragment) to maintain its own identity, its own history…, you increase the tension between the new and the old” (Murphy 1990 ) . Manipulating layers of different scales and properties, he critically selects ...

2.  CENOTAPH TO NEWTON  ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE  IMAGINATION, EMPIRICISM, KNOWLEDGE KEY CONCEPT  Etienne- Louis Boullee’s Cenotaph to Newton is an imagined monument embodying and idealising the core theories of the enlightenment converging on empiricism and romanticism, celebrating the sublimity of architecture in an ode to Sir Isaac Newton (Kaufmann 1952) . The 18 th century visionary for a colossal monument, represented as a series of ink and graphite rendered drawings portrays the provocative design which foreshadowed the modern conception of architectural design (Schaller 1997) . The proposed ‘Cenotaph to Newtown’, which would have been erected at 150m, becoming the tallest built structure in the world, stumping the Pyramids of Giza, was idealised as the resting place for revolutionary scientist Isaac Newton, who’s work became a revered symbol of Enlightenment ideals (Kaufmann 1952) . Newton described as a ‘natural philosopher’ formulated...

1.  CASA OCHOQUEBRADOS  ELEMENTAL  ‘ARCHITECTURE AS OBJECT’ KEY CONCEPT   Casa Ochoquebrados is a formally simple, yet striking holiday house located on the Chilean Coast approximately 250 hours north of main the city Santiago. Here it is a rough and rugged landscape, characterised by deep ravines and dramatically cut stone inlets and cliffs. Within this difficult and even brutal environment, emerged architect Alejandro Aravena’s (Elemental) impressive inspirations (Keegan 2019 ) .  The design is an unambiguously simple form with three volumes (Keegan 2019 ) . Named Casa Ochoquebrados (Eight Ravines), the key concept is derived from the site’s topography, sitting closely at 22 metres above sea level, making it a subtly ‘monumental’ piece in the landscape. Boundaries are blurred consistently as materials and textures blend are and starkly contrasted with the topography. Form challenges typology and topography. Here no longer is the landscape...

WEEK 4  PROJECT MATRIX DEVELOPMENT  I'd like to utilise this course to learn interesting and unusual methods to model making applicable to architectural presentations. With that in mind, I'd like to produce models which focus on different architectural elements and methods of communication. For example, a model which explores the site, one that communicates a section and one that can articulate an exploded axonometric.  1. SITE MODEL  CASA OCHOQUEBRADAS | ELEMENTAL    Style :  OR  LECA SWIMMING POOLS | SIZA  2.  SECTION MODEL  CENOTAPH |  MONUMENT TO NEWTON - ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE  Sectional relief model with electronics... to illuminate as a lamp!  3. AXO/DETAIL  MODEL  PRECEDENT |  MUSEO CASTELVECHIO - CARLO SCARPA  STYLE - EXPLODED AXO / DETAIL