EXP 2 Week 1 Task

Two Architects

Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright draws inspiration from nature to allow a sense of belonging between the building and the surrounding environment.
-Integration with nature.
-Organic geometry.
-Transparency and permeability.

Aires Mateus
Mateus creates an independence of spaces and a place for solitude. There is a clear contrast betweem surroundings and the building.
-Secrecy and restrictive.
-Artifical and synthetic.
-Abstract.

Axonometric Drawings

1. Voids and negative space articulate a sense of secrecy.

2. Artificial cultivation of the environment.

3. Uniformity of simple spaces.

4. Domination of geometric models.

5. “Grow right out of the soil wherever sand and gravel abound”, Frank Lloyd Wright.

6. A synthesis with nature, a respect for the landscape.