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CIVILA
| 19.32 |
EIKONICS
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| EIKONICS PRIMUS DIA state: | |||||||||||||
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| (1) All buildings have names | |||||||||||||
| (2) All buildings have unique names | |||||||||||||
| (3) 1st part of name is type of building- second part is unique name | |||||||||||||
| (4) The builder must give name as part of plan before start of construction | |||||||||||||
| (5) The building must also have as part of its name, the name of its locality- so that the Earth isalso recognized. | |||||||||||||
| (6) The builder must include a plaque- their name and building name as part of the building. | |||||||||||||
| Rule- every room must have daylight on at leas 2 side ( unless the room is less than 8ft deep). Rooms which follow this rule are pleasent to be in; rooms which do not follow it, with few exceptions are unpleasent to be in. | |||||||||||||
| EVERY SYSTEM HAS RELATIONSHIPS | |||||||||||||
| Context -> System of fortis -> configuration | |||||||||||||
| NETWORK OF LIVING PATTERNS- REGION | |||||||||||||
| o independent regions o the distribution of towns o cit/country fingers o agrictulural valley o lace of country streets o country towns o the country side | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS FOR BROAD LAYOUT OF BUILDINGS IN A COMPLEX | |||||||||||||
| o BUILDING COMPLE o NUMBER OF STORIES o SHIELDED PARKING o circulation realms o main building o pedestrian street o building thoroughfare o family of entrances o small parking lots o site repair o south facing outdoors o positive outdoor space o wings of light o connected builtings o long thin house o main entrance o half hidden garden o entrance transition o car connection o heirarchy of open space o courtyards which live o cascade of roofs o sheltered root o roof garden o arcades o paths and goals o path shape o building fronts o pedestrian density o activity pockets o stair seats o something roughly in the middle | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS FOR THE BUILDING AND ITS ROOMS | |||||||||||||
| o intimacy gradient o indoor sunlight o common areas at the heart o entrance room o the flow through rooms o short passages o staircase as a stage o zen view o tapestry of light and dark o couple's realm o children's realm o sleeping to the east o farmhouse kitchen o private terrace on the street o a room of one's own o sequence of sitting spaces o bed cluster o bathing room o bulk storage o flexible office space o communal eating o small work groups o reception welcomes you o a place to wait o small meeting rooms o half private office o rooms to rent o teenager's cottage o old age cottage o settled work o home workshop o open stairs | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS FOR THE GARDENS & PATHS BETWEEN BUILDINGS | |||||||||||||
| o light on two sides of every room o building edge o sunny place o north face o outdoor room o street windows o opening to the street o gallery surround o six-foot balcony o connection to the earth o terraced slopes o fruit trees o tree places o garden growing wild o garden wall o trellished walk o greenhouse o garden seat o vegetable garden o compost | |||||||||||||
| PATTERN FOR THE SMALLEST ROOMS AND CLOSETS WITHIN ROOM | |||||||||||||
| o alcoves o window place o the fire o eating atmosphere o workspaces enclosure o cooking layout o sitting circle o communal sleeping o marriage bed o bed alcove o dressing room o ceiling height variety o the shape of indoor space o windows overlooking life o half open wall o interior windows o staircase bay o corner doors o thick walls o closets between rooms o sunny counter o open shelves o waist high shelf o built in seats o child caves o secret place | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS FOR OVERALL CONFIGURATION OF CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS | |||||||||||||
| o structure follows social spaces o efficient structure o good materials o gradual stiffening o roof layout o floor & ceiling layout o thickening the outer walls o columns at the corners o final column distribution | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS FOR THE DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION | |||||||||||||
| o roof foundations o ground floor slab o box columns o perimeter beams o wall membranes o floor-ceiling vaults o roof vaults o natural doors & windows o low sill o deep reveals o low doorway o frames as thickened edges o column place o column connection o stair vault o duct space o radiant heat o dormer windows o roof caps | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS FOR DETAILS & COLOUR ORNAMENT | |||||||||||||
| o floor surface o lapped outside walls o soft inside walls o windows which open wide o solid doors with glass o filtered light o small panes o half inch trim o seat spots o front door bench o sitting wall o canvas roofs o raised flowers o climbing plants o paving with cracks betweem the stones o ornament o warm colours o soft tile and brick o different chairs o pool of light o things from your life | |||||||||||||
| A building or a tonw will only be alibe to the extent that it is governed by the timeless way. | |||||||||||||
| A building or a tonw will only be alibe to the extent that it is governed by the timeless way. | |||||||||||||
| THE QUALITY | |||||||||||||
| Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. | |||||||||||||
| These patterns of events are always interlocked with certain geometric patterns in the space. Each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space- they are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made. | |||||||||||||
| The more living patterns there are in a place- a room, a building, or a town- the more it comes to life as an entirety- the more it glows. | |||||||||||||
| When a buildng has this glow, it becomes part of nature. | |||||||||||||
| QUALITIES OF BUILDING | |||||||||||||
| Places are comfortable because they have no inner contradictions, because there is no little restlesness disturbing them. | |||||||||||||
| KEY UNDERSTANDING | |||||||||||||
| Places which have the quality of life, invite this quality to come to life in us. And when we have this quality in us, we tend to make it come to life in towns and buildings which we help to build. It is a self supporting, self maintaining, self generating quality. It is the quality of life. And we must seek it, for our own sakes in our surroundings, simply in order that we live. | |||||||||||||
| MORPHOLOGICAL LAW | |||||||||||||
| Within the context of type x, the pasrts A, B etc are related by the relationship r. | |||||||||||||
| A BUILDING GETS ITS STRUCTURE FROM ITS PATTERNS | |||||||||||||
| Those builders that recognize patterns of life create towns in the first place by liberating the human being. They create life, by allowing people to release their energis, by allowing people themselves to become alive. | |||||||||||||
| Or in other places, they prevent it, they destroy the sense of life, the destroy the very possibility of life by creating conditions under which people cannot possibly be free. | |||||||||||||
| THE SYNERGY BETWEEN WORK AND LIFE | |||||||||||||
| Family, work and play are one continuous stream, helping nourish everyone. | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO LIFE | |||||||||||||
| It is therefore clear that patterns play a concrete and objective role in determining the extent to which we come to life in any given place. | |||||||||||||
| Each pattern that creates conditions in which people can reolve the conflicts they experience, for themselves, reduces people's inner conflicts, helps to put them in a state where they can meet more challenges and helps them to be more alive. | |||||||||||||
| On the other hand, each pattern that creates conditions in which people experience conflicts which they cannot resolve for themselves, increases their inner stress, reduces their capacity to resolve other conflicts and meet other challanges and therefore makes them less alive, more dead. | |||||||||||||
| PATTERNS THEMSELVES ARE ALIVE OR DEAD | |||||||||||||
| Beyond that, patterns are not merely instruments which help us live: they are themselves alive or dead. | |||||||||||||
| The quality of a building is less its purpose, than its intrinsic qualities. | |||||||||||||
| In short, a pattern lives when it allows its own internal forces to resolve themselves. | |||||||||||||
| A LIVING CITY | |||||||||||||
| A living cty is when entire systems of patterns, interdependent at many levels, is all stable ( balance) and alive. | |||||||||||||
| A building or a town becomes alive when every patter in it is alive: when it allowsw each person in it, and each plant and animal and everys tream and bridge and wall and roof and every human group and every road, to become alive on its own terms. | |||||||||||||
| And as that happens, the whole town reaches the state that individual people, sometimes reach at their best and happiest moments- when they are free. | |||||||||||||
| A rich and complex order of a town can grow from thousands of creative acts. Once we have a common pattern language in our town, we have all the power to make our streets and buildings live, through our most ordinary acts. The language is like a seed, it is the genetic system which gives our millions of small acts the power to form a whole. | |||||||||||||
| Within this process, every individual act of building is a process in which space gets differentiated. It is not a process of addition in which preferred parts are combined to create a whole, but a process of unfolding like the evolution of an embryo in which the whole precedes the parts and actually gives birth to them by splitting. | |||||||||||||
| Finally, whithin the framework of a common language, millions of individual acts of building will together generate a town which is alive and whole and unpredictable without control. | |||||||||||||
19.7.1 |
QUALITIES OF BUILDING | ||||||||||||
| Buildings are comfortable because they have no inner contradictions, because there is no little restlesness disturbing them. | |||||||||||||
| Places which have the quality of life, invite this quality to come to life in us. And when we have this quality in us, we tend to make it come to life in towns and buildings which we help to build. It is a self supporting, self maintaining, self generating quality. It is the quality of life. And we must seek it, for our own sakes in our surroundings, simply in order that we live. | |||||||||||||
| 19.7.2 | THE STRUCTURE OF A TOWN | ||||||||||||
| A town is made up of certain concrete elements, with every element associated with a certain pattern of events. An urban region is defined by its relationships among its elements. | |||||||||||||
| At centre is central business district containing high density office blocks, nearby high desntiy apartments. | |||||||||||||
| The density slopes off with distance from the centre exponentially. | |||||||||||||
| Towards the outer-fring of the metropolis, large areas of freestanding one-family houses. | |||||||||||||
| Region serviced by network of freeways. Freeways are close together at centre. Independent of freeways is 2D network of streets. Every five to ten streets is a larger one acting as an artery. | |||||||||||||
| 19.7.3 | A BUILDING GETS ITS STRUCTURE FROM ITS PATTERNS | ||||||||||||
| Those builders that recognize patterns of life create towns in the first place by liberating the human being. They create life, by allowing people to release their energis, by allowing people themselves to become alive. | |||||||||||||
| Or in other places, they prevent it, they destroy the sense of life, the destroy the very possibility of life by creating conditions under which people cannot possibly be free. | |||||||||||||
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