A beautiful floor, a forgotten element, draws the eye down, a rare direction to view architecture. The presence of a floor, realized through travel, led to a curiosity about the patterns adorning the surface and an architecture generated by the floor. A pattern becomes a floor when lines turn into joints. The subtle interruptions of a pattern's repetition, revealed through geometric construction, establishes the boundary of a floor and the order of a room. In a series of rooms determined by the floor, the transition from one pattern to another, with respect to tectonics, creates the thresholds and fenestrations within the procession. The acts of making and ichnographic drawing, under the watchful hand of craft, directed this study of a floor as the principal architectural consideration. / Master of Architecture / The presence of an ornate floor changes the experience of architecture, as it alters the familiar architectural views. The patterns found on floors in Europe inspired the idea of the floor generating the spatial qualities of a room. The geometry of a pattern determines the bounding conditions, the form, and structure of a room as well as the transition between rooms determined by other patterns. Drawing in plan and crafting wooden models transformed a pattern into a floor through an understanding of the material and underlying joinery.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/115983 |
| Date | 03 August 2023 |
| Creators | Janci, Aaron |
| Contributors | Architecture, Weiner, Frank H., Pittman, Vance H., Galloway, William U. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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