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Observations Of A Landscape Photographer And Architecture Photography Essay
The objective of this thesis is to see how the obÂservations of the landscape photographer can furÂther inform the relationship of architecture and the landscape. Observing how landscape photograÂphers perceive their subject and define the issues that influence their personal perspectives becomes the tool for better understanding issues shared by architecture. For example, framing, the role of the horizon, natural and artificial light, texture, mood, scale, geography and the juxtaposition of man-made and natural elements are issues shared by both disciplines. In addition how landscape phoÂtographers observe and interpret the landscape in its many moods challenges architects to underÂstand realizing how similar transformations occur in works of architecture over time. To demonstrate such findings, relevant examples of photography and architecture will be juxtaposed, discussed and supported by explanatory diagrams. In this manÂner, an analysis of landscape photography will hopefully clarify and inspire alternative ways of defining the interface between the building and the landscape.
TYPES OF LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Figure 3:
Man in water
Abstraction
Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Types of Landscape photography:
• Representational
• Impressionistic
• Abstract
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TYPES OF LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
"Photographers usually use three different styles in landscape photography, which are representaÂtional, impressionistic and abstract"(1). RepresenÂtational style results in pictures that show us the most realistic and natural look of the scene without any artifices. It is straight forward, that is what you see is what you get. Although the photographer does not add any props or foreign components to the scene, the best result is not a simple snapshot, rather far from it. The best attention is paid to comÂposition, and details of texture, light, foliage, timÂing and weather are critical. For the architect who chooses to incorporate this style of photography in his or her work, paying attention to all the details mentioned above is mandatory. Then a personal interpretation of the work can manifest itself in the related architectural subject(Figure 4,5).
The second style of photography is impressionÂistic. Photographic techniques result in images with elusive or vague quality. These pictures are less touchable and more unreal, while they still retain their values that make them landscape picÂtures. Studying the works of this second group has helped me to have a better understanding of texture in design(Figure 6,7). One example is when I used the unclear glass in the building, and the onlooker could not tell what or how the inside looked. He or she could have their own imagination about the subject.
The last style of photography is called abstract, which deals with shape, form, contrast and color in a particular scene, of which often nothing may be recognizable. One part of the landscape may be combined with another in order to bring out the beauty or danger, water or desert, or red and blue of the scene. Abstract landscape photography isn't really intended to depict a particular scene at all, rather to create a piece of art that is only loosely based on a real scene in the real world( Figure 3,8). One good architectural example is the work of arÂchitect Luis Barragan. His works deal with texture, light, shadow and repetition, which he applies to his creation. His works for me represent the transiÂtion of abstract landscape photography to architecÂture.
Figure 4:
San Sebastion, Spain
Representational photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 5:
Sidi bou said, Tunisia,
Representational,
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 6:
Musse Historie Naturelle,
Paris, France
Impressionistic
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 7:
Chateau de ChenonÂceau,
Tour, France
Impressionistic
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 8:
Anger
Abstract
Maryland, USA
Abstract photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
1-Landcape photogrophy. http://www.photographyicon.com/landscape/index.html.
-Sontag, Susan. On photogrophy. New York: farrar straus and girouxn.d.
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ISSUES FOUND IN LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Geography:
Landscape photography consists of three important sub-sections. First, it is about geography of the site and the contrast of sky vs. earth, cliff vs. plateau, sea vs. land and the rule of horizon. Architects deal with the same issues in their work, for instance the Cliffside house by Michael Rotondi ,which explores the concept of sky vs. earth; Salk institute by Louis Kahn for the concept of rule of horizon; Casa Malaparte by Adalberto Libera in the concept of cliff vs. plateau; and Gilardi house by Louis Barragan in the concept of sea vs. land. I do assume that each of the aforementioned examples were somehow influenced by landscape photograÂphy. An architect should have a good grasp of the effect of the terrain and climate on his design and in achieving that the work of the landscape photographer can be beneficial.
Landscape photography
Architecture
Sky vs. Earth
Figure 9(Left):
Marmata, Tunisia
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 10(Right):
Cliffside house by Michael Rotondi
Rule of Horizon
Figure 11(left):
Ocean City, Maryland
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 12(Right):
Salk institute by Louis Kahn
Cliff vs. Plateau
Figure 13(Left):
Gozo, Malta
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 14(Right):
Casa Malaparte
Sea vs. Land
Figure 15(left):
Gozzo, Malta
Figure 16(Right):
Gilardi House by Luis Barragan
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
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ISSUES FOUND IN LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Scale:
These second section deals with the question of scale, whether grand, pieces and part, close up, or micro. From the beginning of architecture, architects, such as Andrea Palladio, used the ratio founded in nature to create the harmony with the building. In addition there are some buildings that are designed based on human's body. It means that there is a proportional correlation between human's body and building's elements such as doors and windows size. Sometimes, building are scaled more to their environment or purpose that it's the building elements landed their self to present the grand, over powering or even transcended appearÂance. Regardless of these approaches, the way architect chooses to manipulate scale affect the users by making the building feels, comfortable, divine or even unreal. In short, the scale of architecture is not only the system of size in various levels (physical, visual, technological, economical, etc.), but also the all relations between the proportions, which exist in similar forms of different size each other. Landscape photography can help him acquire a better sense of detail in his design, one thing which can be of utmost importance.
Landscape photography
Architecture
Grand
Figure 17(Left):
Naples, Italy
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 18(Right):
Casa Malaparte, Capri, Italy
Pieces and parts
Figure 19(left):
Paris, France
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 20(Right):
Beyeler Foundation
by Renzo Piano
Close up
Figure 21(Left):
Paris, France
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 22(Right):
Beyeler Foundation
by Renzo Piano
Micro
Figure 23(left):
Paris, France
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 24(Right):
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontance Chapel, Rome, Italy
Jenkins, Eric. To Scale. New York: Simultaneously, 2008.
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ISSUES FOUND IN LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Light:
Both of paramount importance in the work of a landscape photographer and an architect is lighting, which encompasses bright vs. dull, clear vs. mist, sun vs. rain and day vs. night. The photographer and architect both have to consider the light and shadow and their different qualities in their work. The photographer considÂers which light applies best to his object and the architect does the same in his design process. Light is a necessity for the sight and a utility in architecture, but also a powerful, though ephemeral, vehicle of expression. Since light moves back and forth from its source, it changes character and has the power to convey many of the quality of nature to the inert mass of architecture. An architect may not be able to control the light, but can predict its behavior well enough to catch it meanÂingfully in his work, he channels it through the openings into his space and then molds it into masses, and brings the site to life by contrasting it with the shadows.
Architecture
Landscape photography
Bright vs. Dull
Figure 25,26(Left):
Ocean City, Maryland
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 27,28(Right):
Citroen Park, Paris, France
Arab Ins., Paris, France
Clear vs. Mist
Figure 29,30(left):
Viaduc Des Artes Park, Paris,FR
Luxembourg Park, Paris, France
Photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 31,32(Right):
Arab Ins., Paris, France
Sun vs. Rain
Figure 33,34(Left):
Capri, Italy
Paris, France
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 35,36(Right):
Dominus Winery, California
Day vs. Night
Figure 37,38(left):
Capri, Italy
Figure 39,40(Right):
Effie Tower, Paris, France
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
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ISSUES FOUND IN LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Texture :
The last section deals with texture and the comparisons smooth vs. rough, foliage vs. dying, spring vs. fall and fertile vs. barren. Texture lends a dimensional qualÂity to photos and enable the photographer to break up large areas of tone to create special effects. It has long been used by architects too in order to breath life into buildings as well create a unique experience visually for the visitor. To express the true quality of materials, to shape an interior space or simply to articulate a patÂtern, texture is a fundamental tool in all of the above. It can also be used to create a more complex language for architects to express themselves. The juxtaposition between both digital and natural materials will certainly emphasize texture via patterns and rhythms. In addition, texture between the two will call for varying degrees of occupant touch.
Architecture
Landscape photography
Smooth vs. Rough
Figure 41,42(Left):
Capri, Italy
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 43,44(Right):
France
Foliage vs. Dying
Figure 45,46(left):
Paris, France
photo by
Stanley Hallet
Figure 47,48(Right):
Quai Branly Museum
Dominus Winery, California
Fall vs. Spring
Figure 49,50(Left):
France
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 51(Right):
Egerstrom House
by Luis Barragan
Fertile
Figure 50(left):
Washington, DC
photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
Figure 51(Right):
Paris, France
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SPECIFIC LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Figure 52:
Natural Frame
Capri, Italy
Photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
• How are they explaining these
issues?
• What kind of the issues that photographers interested?
• Shows different issues on each one:
• Rule of reflection
• Rule of Sky
• Rule of extend
• How does he set up the camera to do this?
• Where the sun will be? Or moon?
• Deconstruct photos
o Analyzing each photograph:
• Foreground
• Background
• Color shot
• Black and white shot
• What do I learn from each one
• What kind of lenses are they using
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ANSEL ADAMS
One of the most famous landscape photographers is Ansel Adams, who has influenced many people in different field. He likes black and white because there is no distraction for him and is really interÂested in the grand panorama and in how much deÂtail can be shown in the large context. Most of AdÂams work is about the relationship between the sky and earth. He is aware of the sun's position at any given point of the day and knows how to use it. He also pioneered the idea of visualization(2) (which he often called 'previsualization') of the finished print, based upon the measured light values in the scene being photographed. One of the best known and most sought after photographs in the field of fine-art photography is called "Moonrise". AdÂams took this photo in Hernandez, New Mexico in 1941(Figure 53). He used a technique called "rules of thirds", which many artists think of it as boring , that is looking at symmetrical images , divided in three parts. This type of photograph has three layers and each a different tone: the black sky, the white cloud and the gray landscape(figure 54). AdÂams made an interesting composition that became very popular. Adam said " Moonrise combined serendipity and immediate technical recall"(3). Serendipity means lucky chance. He "felt at the time it was an exceptional image"(3) and when he took it, "he felt an almost prophetic sense of satisÂfaction"(3). Ironically, Adams happened upon this shot by chance while driving along a roadside headÂing towards Santa Fe, New Mexico, after an unproÂductive day of photography. The conditions were perfect, but he was basically unprepared because he didn't have access to his light meter. Adams used his knowledge of the luminance of the moon and was able to get this precious shot. He said "it is a romantic / emotional moment in time". Another example is called the "Winter Sunrise"(Figure 56). Adams never intentionally included a human or an animal in his creative landscape, but in this picÂture, horses have added an earthy touch to the un earthly beauty of the scene. Control, as absolute as possible, was at the heart of Adams' photography.For him, the critical variable was light and he used light, reflection, rule of thirds, layers and different tones in his work. Each of these techniques can be used in architecture as well. Studying this process can help me as a designer to improve my work and have a better understanding of the correlation at work.
Figure 53:
Moonrise
Photo by
Ansel Adams
Figure 54:
Deconstruct Moonrise
Figure 55:
Winter Sunrise
Photo by
Ansel Adams
Figure 56:
Deconstruct
Winter Sunrise
2-Adams, Ansel. The camera. New York: little brown, 1972.
3-Adams, Ansel. The making of 40 photography. New York: little brown, 1980.
-Adams, Ansel. Auto biagraphy. New York: little brown, 1987.
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Eliot Porter is a photographer much influenced by Ansel Adams, yet more interested on the effect of color and its distribution throughout the landÂscape; detail and texture in nature was his focus, so he expanded his attention in order to celebrate the sheer beauty of nature(4). Porter's photograÂphy was more about balance, layering and object vs. the field. To him, photography was a creative art and was the first to successfully bridge the gap between photography as a fine art and its roots in science and technology. Eliot porter is known to be the first nature photographer to artistically craft color images, in both the taking and developing processes, to a degree achieved by Ansel Adams in black and white photography. So delicate was PorÂter's processing technique that a leading photogÂraphy critic at the time, Weston Naef, wrote that "Porter was captivated by colors that had not yet been named". In architecture also, an architect tries to breathe life into buildings by bringing different textures along thus creating a visual experience for the eyes to see. Texture is a fundamental tool in expressing the true quality of materials, shaping an interior space or simply to articulate a pattern. It is as I mentioned before, used by architects to create a more complex language of expression. ViÂsual textures are produced by the patterns given to the lighting of the surface, both through the way materials are worked (e.g., vertical or horizontal chiseling of stone) and through the way they are employed in the building (e.g., vertical or horizonÂtal boarding, projection and recession of courses of brick). Like all patterns, visual textures create asÂsociation of movement, giving rhythm to the surÂface. A single texture is rarely used in buildings. The variety of materials and treatments typically produces a complex of textures that must be comÂposed and harmonized like the forms and spaces of architecture, into a consistent expressive whole. So understanding the perception of a photographer in relation to texture can give the designer a better outlook in choosing the right pattern and texture for his work.
ELIOT PORTER
4- Porter, Eliot. The place no one knew. Utah: gibbs smith, 1991.
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JERRY UELSMANN
There is another photographer with a completely different technique, Jerry Uelsmann. In his work, he combines several negatives to create surreal landscapes that interweave images of trees, rocks, water and human figures in new and unexpected ways. He uses several enlargers, each of which have a different negative placed under the lamp. The photographic paper is sequentially moved from one enlarger to the next, "burning in" and" dodging out" the light wherever it needs to be maÂnipulated. The paper is then processed to create a one of a kind (irreproducible) print. As an architect always has a concept behind his work, so did UelsÂmann. He believed that "a picture should show your own familiar world", that's why his photogÂraphy wasn't about thinking; it was about surprise and discovery. Both in photography and architecÂture, there exists a concept, vision, idea or inspiraÂtion, which most likely emanates from one's own experiences. When one has worked arduously on a project, and for a long time, his or her inspiration or rather light of inspiration, shines through. In photography, the subject or the concept behind it can be upside down and still be effective. The phoÂtographer can play with your mind and make you see things you won't normally see. In architecture also, the architect can create a compositional conÂcept and take you on a journey not expected.
5-Uelsmann, Jerry. Process and Perception. New York: university press of Florida, 1986.
-Uelsmann, Jerry N. Photo Synthesis. New York: University Press of Florida, 1992.
- Ward, John. The Criticism of Photography As Art: The Photographs of Jerry Uelsmann. New York: University Press of Florida, 1988.
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SPECIFIC EXAMPLE IN ARCHITECTURE
Figure 65:
Representational
Vals, Switzerland
Photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
• How do these issues effect architecture
• Opening as a framing device:
• The Doorway
• The window
• The Close porch
• The detail in the landscape
• Architecture holding the landscape(Court)
• Architecture in the landscape(site)
• Architecture viewing the landscape(widows)
• The following are examples of how photography and architecture are
correlated. The first example, talks about the effect of the frame and how it can make you focus on a certain point. Second one is the concept of nature and how it can be incorporated into a
building. Third, talks about the pattern and how your eyes can lead to a certain impression. The last one, is about
reflection and layering , which are both essential in architecture.
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MARY MISS
The artist Mary Miss has been redefining how art is integrated into the public realm since the early 1970's. "For more than three decades, Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design and installation art. She has articulated a vision of the public sphere where communal and private experiences co-exÂist."(6) Her work is grounded in the context of a place, from which she constructs situations where the visitor becomes aware of the site's history, its ecology, or aspects of the environment that have gone unnoticed. The individual viewer moving through the site, experiencing it in all of its conÂfigurations, becomes the primary focus. One of the best examples is Battery Park City Landfill project in 1973 New York City. Its five rough wood panels with deascending circular cutouts were aligned as you walked up to the opening. The built and natÂural materials are both laid out for examination, consideration and potential redefinition of their reÂlationships. The visitors were engaged in the makÂing of the piece and movement was necessary for it to become visible. Also it is intended to relate the visual with the physicality of the objects and landscape. She is not the photographer nor the arÂchitect. She is an artist who is following the rules of both in her work. She used rule of horizon, sky vs. earth, fore ground vs. background, layering, composition and object vs. the field.
All the issues discussed above are also influential in architecture. For instance, one issue that the photographer deals with is framing, the same goes for the architect also. When the architect deals with the landscape, he may create a space called court or window, which can be directly associated with the way the photographer creates a frame.
6-Abramson, Daniel M. Mary Miss. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
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CURZIO MALAPARTE
Italian rationalist architect Albetto Libera, for Curzio Malaparte, conceived Casa Malaparte house around 1937. Malaparte actually rejectÂed Libera's design and built the house himself with the help of Adolfo Amitrano, a local stone mason. The conveyance of communication of values and beliefs through architecture, which best defines the intention of writer and political activist Curzio Malaparte in the design and conÂstruction of his house on a bluff in Capri, Case Malaparte is a great example. All of the rules are going against established theories of architecÂture, such as building should fit in with its natuÂral surroundings. Malaparte was determined to construct a house that would be his house, conÂveying his values, beliefs and personality. The house is an object in the landscape and it stands alone. When you enter, each window is a snapÂshot and frameS the landscape, and this is due to the way the frame is made.
It's according to the Le Corbusier theory, when exterior and interior of a building become one. When you are in the main hall, the walls are white and the floor is stone, you don't feel as if you are inside. When you are on the roof, the sail vs. horizontal line connects the nature to the building, or as Vittorio Savi and Adalberto Libera have said, "one realizes then that there is an extreme contrast between looking from the inside or from the outside. They (windows) are empty like 'hollow eyes'. From the inside these windows however are filled with the isolated worlds they frame; terrific worlds provoking a sublime anxiety through revealing the distance between subject and object, man and nature, and the impossibility of processing those worlds that they create"(7). Photographers have their camÂera and work with their lens to create a frame, where as architects construct the building and bring out their windows as their frames.
7-Talamona, Mardia. Casa Malaparte. New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 1992.
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PETER ZUMTHOR
A great example of framing the landscape is when you cannot say when the building starts and landÂscape stops; and it can be seen in the work of Peter Zumthor called Therme Vals. Zumthor uses images of quarries and water flowing spontaneously from the ground to describe the conception of the buildÂing, its geometric rigor reflects a huge rock embedÂded in the hillside. When you are in the building and in front of the glass wall, the sun is moving from behind the mountain during the day and it is a great example of grasping the landscape through the building. When you are outside in the water, it is still framing the landscape. The building is made of local Valser quartzite and concrete. Water, light and to some extent steam and heat, add to the defiÂnition of areas within the ritual of the bath(8).
The Therme Vals offers a seductive shift from the paradigm of the Bilbao effect, where architecture is a vehicle for economic health through spectacle and display. The space is used for the engagement of mind, body , soul and the whole community. This is a great example of how photography can play an important role in framing the landscape in architecture.
8-Zumthor, Peter. Therme Vals. New York: Annalisa Zumthor, 1991.
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As I mentioned before, sometimes the architect holds part of the landscape and creates a court, such as Renzo Piano having the court yard in the middle of lobby of New York Times building. This cube of space, open to the sky, isn't accesÂsible , but it's like finding a park in the middle of an office building. The sight of it alone has a calming effect. Retail tenants are required to keep their glass walls uncluttered in order to preÂserve the view from either side of the court yard. On one side of the courtyard, there is a theater and has a view to the yard, which can be seen as a background or foreground in photography. This is a great example of how landscape phoÂtography, and framing it is useful to architecture prior to design.
Another example of the importance of landscape in architecture can be Katsira detached palace in Japan. The palace includes a drawing room, teahouses, and a strolling garden. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The strolling garden takes waÂter from the Katsura River for the central pond, around which are the tea houses, hill, sand, bridge and lanterns. Its garden is a masterpiece of Japanese gardening. In this palace , the landÂscape is framed outside of the main building and the viewer catches it from outside, where as in the New York Times building, landscape was brought inside and one could experience it from a different angle.
RENZO PIANO vs. KARSURA PALACE
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Lius Barragam is a master at presenting nature in his work through large stucco or plain walls. Shadow is really important in his design and he uses texture, light, shadow and repetition to create architecture. In his work, one cannot tell when the building stops and the nature begins.Barragan said " Beauty speaks like an oracle, and man has always heeded its message in an infi nite number of ways...Life deprived of beauÂty is not worthy of being called human."
Ricardo Legorreta is a disciple of Luis Barragan and took his ideas to a wider realm. He used elÂements of Barragan's work , like bright colors, geometric shapes, light and shadow and created architecture with elements of nature. Legorreta said " "This world of Mexican spaces fi lled my life in such a natural way that light, walls, color, mystery, and water,with all their beauty, became part of me. I am not an exception, that is the way we Mexicans are." Legorreta achieves Mystery and Surprise, through the use of Mass, color, symbol , light and lighting , through holes, slots, squeezes and releases.
His color is Red, deep blue, yellow, pink and LiÂlac. Pure color, as if it came out of a painter's tube. His teacher in all this has been vernacuÂlar architecture which has been also teacher to many other good architects.
RICARDO LEGORRETA & LUIS BARRAGAN
9-Pauly, Daniele. Barragan space and shadow, wall and colour. New York: Birkhouser, 2004.
- Mutlow, John V. Ricardo Legorreta. New York: Rizzoli international publication, 1997.
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POSSIBLE PROGRAM
Figure 85:
Beyond Being
Photo by
Unknown
Meditation Center
1- Garden / Spread at multiple locations with connotations
a. AID/ help in creating moods and set the scene.
2- Bathing / Purifying
a. Cold water
b. Hot water
c. Jasmine water
d. Waterfall in different locations
3- Healing: Travel with your mind by being exposed to inspiring images
a. Color, light --> Chromatography
b. Smell --> Aromatherapy
c. Image/ Elements/ Shape ---> something inspiring
d. Sound/ music
4- Tea house
a. Garden
1- harmony -> Nature
2- purity -> drinking tea
a. Created for aesthetic and intellectual fulfillment
b. it is an interlude in which one leads oneself for the moment to the spirit of beauty, quietude, and politeness toward others.
5- Mediation
a. Single/individual spaces
b. Common spaces
c. rest/ stretch
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POSSIBLE PROGRAM
The essence of nature, life, and the earth is waÂter. Water provides the means to exist and to live. There are several examples to imply this idea as water being a pure element. In my opinion, Nature eases the mind. Nature provides birth and death, such dervish dance of existence and non-existence creates a spatial environment to not only ease the mind but also to comfort the body. Another exÂample to indicate the importance of water is the human body, which is 60% water. This close relaÂtion between nature and water is the epic of ones calmness.
According to Le Corbusier's theory a building's interior and its exterior should be as one to create a comfortable place. Creating such a calm environÂment requires a neat correlation among each partiÂcle to its surrounding nature. Consequently buildÂing a Meditation Center, is a metaphorical bridge to transport a negligent mind to the realm of purity and to detach from the daily pressures of life in order to energize the spirit, and to reconnect with one's inner being. It is a space that is designed to create a feeling of being welcome, safe, and peaceÂful.
I used three types of photography, representationÂal, impressionist, and abstract, to embody Le CorÂbusier's idea show itself in the representation of a greenery garden as a cohesive element of nature, and the impression of unknown conceptual space of the building.
These studies can help me to have a better underÂstanding of choosing a proper site where not only to serve building commodity but also its framing. I thought that the mediation center that I'm designÂing should most definitely have a close proximity to water, not only for its natural beauty, but also for the undeniable effect that it has on our body and soul.
OUTER
FILTER
Separation of two worlds
PURIFYING/ BATHING
a. Cold water
b. Hot water
c. Jasmine water
d. waterfall
HEALING
a. Chromatography
b. Aromatherapy
c. Sound/ Music
TEAHOUSE
a. Harmony -> nature
b. Purity -> Drinking tea
MEDITATION
a. Single Space
b. Common Space
c. Resting space
Diagram of spaces in the program
-Macbeth, Jessica. Moon over Water: Meditation Made Clear With Techniques for Beginners and Initiates. Fairfax: Gateway Books, 1990.
-Mowry, Elizabeth. Landscape Meditation. New York: Watson-Guptill; illustrated edition, 2005.
- Frantizis, Bruce. The Great Stillness: The Water Method of Taoist Meditation Series. Vol.2.Fairfax: North Atlantic Books, 2001.
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SITE SELECTION ANALYSES
Figure 86:
View of lake from other mountain
Photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
diagrams & maps of the site:
- Wind diagram
- Sun diagram(how is the sun moving
in summer and winter)
- Temperature diagram
- Section of the site with diagrams
- Traffic, Including cars & pedestrians
-Access
-History & historical Importance
- Adjacent uses views, good and bad
- Geography maps
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SITE SELECTION ANALYSES
Lavasan is located in the outskirts of Tehran (5 miles) about a 15 minute drive from the CapiÂtal. It is exceptional due to its' unique location in the north-east of Tehran and it is adjacent to the Jajroud River and overlooking the Latian Lake . With its' proximity both to the city and its' closeÂness to nature, Lavasan has become one of the most, if not the most, sought after location for the Tehran's well-off residents. The one of a kind cool breeze from the Alborz Mountain and Shemshak Valley, reaches the Lavasan area through the natuÂral tunnel of Jajroud River and thus creates a green landscape, which not only is easy on the eye , but also causes the temperature to drop 10 degrees (Celsius) in the warm summer days in comparison to Tehran's temperature.
Lavasan is 1700 meter above the sea level and beÂcause of Jajroud River and Latian Lake, the humidÂity of the area is also much more than the Capital. The surrounding mountains and the Goochak Peak , protects Lavasan from the pollution of Tehran , which is an over-growing problem for the resiÂdents of the Capital. Considering the above-menÂtioned attributes of such a unique location right in a short drive from Tehran, with its' closeness to the center of business, economy, entertainment and life of a major Capital , together with its' excepÂtional beauty and nature , away from the pollution; has made Lavasan the prime location for Tehran's elite and led me to choose this site for my project .
Figure 87:
Iran
Location of Tehran
Lavasan
Figure 88:
Tehran
Location of Lavasan town
Tehran
Figure 89:
Lavasan
Relation between lake and Town
Figure 90:
Latyan Lake
Location of Site
Figure 91:
Site
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It will be completed in summer:
1- photography:
a. Day vs. Night
b. Zoomed in Zoomed out
c. Macro- Detail(texture, Color)
d. Stitch panoramas
e. Black & white + color
2- Movie
All of the above in motion
3- Maps
Local Business
4- Drawing
a. Include diagrams: Sky, Earth, under ground
5- Text and written:
a. Articles
b. Quotable
SITE SELECTION ANALYSES
Figure 92:
Looking sunset from the site
Figure 93:
Activities in the lake
Figure 94:
Studying type of flower in summer
Figure 95:
Viewing lake
in summer
Figure 96:
Viewing lake
in winter
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CONCLUSION
Figure 97:
Representational
Luxembourg Park
Paris, France
Photo by
Rouzbeh Mokhtari
My interest in photography inspired me to realize a relationship between photographs' perception of the landscape and its relevance to architecture. Studying those issues in photography helps me to have a better understanding of photographers' perception by deconstructing juxtapositions of photographs and diagrams. Photographers used camera and lens to explore their visions and exÂpress ideas to the world. In similarity to photograÂphers, architects construct buildings to show their concept by designing exterior, texturing, lighting and layering. Creating a building to correspond to those concepts desires a great deal of perception of correlation between landscape and nature. My inÂtentional interest toward connecting photography to architecture demanded a building that is inter-connected with its landscape and nature. DesignÂing a mediation center that follows such analogy of close proximity of water, not only for its natural beauty but also for the undeniable effect that it has on our body and soul, will be the study of this theÂsis.
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