

Viipuri Library taken from https://www.archdaily.com/630420/ad-classics-viipuri-library-alvar-aalto

Garden of Cosmic Speculation taken from https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/the-garden-of-cosmic-speculation-the-crazy-space-where-lewis-carroll-and-willy-wonka-meet-capability-brown-222849
Project Description
Students were asked to pick two precedents from two separate lists given to them. One list provided various landscape-infused architecture examples, and the other offered different buildings categorized as library or research archive centers. For this project I chose The Garden of Cosmic Speculation and the Viipuri Library. From the two chosen precedents, students were asked to find patterns and shapes through photos of their selected precedents. A minimum of eight layers were created, printed on acetate sheets, and then put together to make overlapping layers that could be arranged in whatever way.

Hill Representation1

Hill Representation2

Acoustic Representation

Skylights

Shade and Shadow1

Shade and Shadow2

Section

Staircase

Trees and Shadow1

Trees and Shadow2


