Spectacle Parking

Nomadic Device/Re-situation/ Structure/ Circulation

Circulation Path

Applying the Nomadic Device In The Parking Structure

Pictures Nomadic Device

Nomadic Device Line Drawing

Reading Questions/ 2 Readings on Details

1. 1.) As the technique of detailing changed from the hands of the craftsman to the tools of the architect, how has the resulting construction of details changed? Explain in terms of scale, material and cost.

In transitioning in detail from craftsman to a tool of the architect, scale to a craftsman is determining the right size for a specific detail, where as to an architect the term scale means defining a definitive space, a space that becomes truly complete when all details become integrated and worked well to make a building function in all aspects. Material would also in a sense cost more, because there was a better precision in detail. In this notion of the “analytique” a single detail could play out to make the overall composition come together. Details demanded more cost so it would affect the economy as a whole because they were soon seen as an “investment”. Detail corresponds to scale because is it but a small piece to a larger whole. To an architect, scale is seen as a tool to control detail.

2. 2.)How does "geometrical relationship" of individual details provide an understanding of the whole building if "indirect vision" localizes the viewer and "habit determines to a large extent even optical reception"?

Geometrical Relationship can still be understood even if “indirect vision” were to occur or if “habit determines to a large extent even optical reception” because as Benjamin stated “buildings are appropriated by use and by perception or by touch and sight”, so essentially if both of these ideas were present to a viewer, it’s still possible to utilize these to one’s advantage because geometrical relationships are embodied in details in a “built environment” and in the “natural environment” so with both of these conditions almost always present, the indirect vision becomes a “large field of vision”. In a sense indirect vision works with the habit of determining to a large extent even optical reception.

3. 3.)Carlo Scarp's details are a "result of an intellectual game" where the Open City buildings are constructed from an act of poetry. Describe what role the detail plays to "tell-the-tale" in each of these environments.

In Carlo Scarp’s environment, he tells the tale with his use and construction of details and places them to correlate with ones understanding of a building through sense and vision. He does this at the very beginning with his architectural drawings, through his capturing of connecting construction of a representation with a construction of “edifice”. Judgments made by individuals are indeed in a sense linked to the process of construction of the actual building. So in the end these details become an act of foreshadowing in predicting architectural events. In the open city the details help allow one to understand how the building is a part of the outside environment. The perception one gets from the inside has the same connotations as the outside or vice versa. So the detailed architectural events that happen in the inside tells the tale of the poetic nature of the sand and sea in constant motion both at the same time.

4. 4.) Pendleton-Jullian writes about the Open City as emerging from and being in the landscape. Does allowing landscape to initiate "the configuration of territory and space" challenge Western building notions, and how so?

Allowing the landscape to initiate configuration of territory and space does not challenge the western building notions because unlike the landscapes that are well varied across South America western landscapes have no variations so in a sense landscapes can’t be configured with to have the same effect that landscapes from South America have. Topography’s in the western world have no real sense of corresponding with a given building the way the topographies correspond with building work in the open city. Western building notions are not necessarily poetic in nature the way the open city is. Unlike the open city, western building notions are built as a whole where the open city is constructed in intervals when inhabitants see the need for it, moreover, each segment corresponds to an individual characteristic in the surrounding enviorment/community.

5.) Describe some detail conditions of the Open City that convey "lightness" as Pendleton-Jullian refers to.

The open city does indeed separate and make clear the difference between shadow and light and Pendelton’s concept of lightness if directly seen in the entry of the Hospederia. Where you see a beginning stage where the understanding of the Hosperderia begins to take place as you see a detail from the edge to center. This sense of lightness also works with the site because in the entry you witness the Hosperderia coming out of the sand and as you migrate around the building five bays are discovered and one begins to understand this sense of lightness where the understanding of the building matures as you progress through it. As the progression happens you see that one building leads to another and another and so on, this is where lightness continues and is spanned throughout the Open city in a poetic act.