This is a thesis investigation of the potential of architectural form in its ability to overwhelm. Architecture cannot be measured by bolts or decorative elements; it must be measured by its capacity to move us. Technological feats, humanistic comforts, or historical legacies will never yield the ultimate expression of man. Expression is a controlled, deliberate act which carries out a concept to fruition.
The basis of this proposal is to emphasize an act, an essence, a process -- an accentuation which subjects a new layer that reveals, distorts, and produces anew. It is to change the original by means of its own devices, yielding a further sense of harmony with a place.
A gate, walls in a clearing, a bridge, a moat, four towers, a plaza, a "passeggiata," many benches, and stepping stones are the elements that are collaged with a "greensward, " a "hilly land covered with plantations, " and a " low plain mainly occupied by a lake. "
Three acts are proposed : the elements, all strict geometric forms , are placed to contrast their setting; the land where they lie is trenched or terraced to perceptually remove the parcels of earth from the Park; the enclosing roads weave in and out, emerging within the Park, to determine the position of the elements. / M. Arch.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/111050 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Proffitt, Pilar |
| Contributors | Architecture, Dunay, Robert J., Rott, Hans Christian, Schnoedt, Heinrich, Weiner, Frank H. |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 1 portfolio (various pagings), application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 37569999 |
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