In the past couple of weeks, some of the larger questions we’ve been tackling include what makes a certain space or element evoke a certain experience or emotion and how different elements of the Built environment accommodate these emotions and responses. To further our understanding on the subject, we were asked to work with vesselsContinue reading “A collection of vessels I call home”
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Exploring Elements of the Built environment; Vessels
I have never been a fan of crowded places and my trip to the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh as a young girl is something that I don’t think I will ever forget. I was standing in a queue in a narrow passageway for six to eight hours with people much taller than me pushingContinue reading “Exploring Elements of the Built environment; Vessels”
Exploring Elements of the Built Environment; Walls
When I hear the word “wall” I immediately think of a flat rectangular surface flanked in between two similarly shaped and perpendicularly placed walls. Something that fascinated me from this week’s lecture was the walls of the Borromini in Rome. These walls are not only theatrical and sculptural but also flexible and dynamic. They beautifullyContinue reading “Exploring Elements of the Built Environment; Walls”
Exploring Elements of the Built Environment; Portals
“If openings are the eyes of the building, portal is the mouth, the aperture most able to tell us about what is beyond.” Charles W Moore, Chambers of a Memory Palace Simply put, a portal is an opening that bids welcome and cultivates experiences of what lies beyond. It allows one to imagine life outsideContinue reading “Exploring Elements of the Built Environment; Portals”
Exploring elements of the Built Environment; Axes and Paths
An integral component of any form of design is legibility. Legibility, simply put, can be understood as the organisation of matter coherently. By accessing a legible space, one must be able to analyse their environment and construct a clear mental image. This legibility can be of varying degree and although it is impossible to quantifyContinue reading “Exploring elements of the Built Environment; Axes and Paths”
Understanding the nomad
In my early teens, I began using social media and almost every teen blogger I followed on Tumblr, YouTube or Instagram was chasing after the wanderlust lifestyle. At age fourteen, I was intrigued by their ability to work in a space that wasn’t restricted to one geographical area. Fascinated by what I considered a glamorousContinue reading “Understanding the nomad”
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