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Afternoon House II: Radical/Conservative

Douglas, C
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The Afternoon House series is an ongoing research project leveraging belated or obsolete architectural techniques and ideas to explore the way that architecture makes world-order perceptible. It is a revision of Palladio's Villa for a world he could not imagine. It consists of a black shell of layered in-situ concrete, enclosed, partitioned, and furnished in light timber and fine steel joinery. The shell is formed by linear rhythms of solid and void. Complexity develops as simple rhythms slip in and out of phase with each other, converge and interfere. Although each pattern is rigorous and repetitive, no two of the resulting spaces are identical. Although the plan is not sensed directly in the way that heat, darkness, or solidity are sensed, it is nonetheless perceived. It is not a matter of the mind against the senses: it is incorrect to oppose cognitive order and sensory experience. Experience is also cognitive and order sensory. Rather than a centring machine like the Villa Rotonda, Afternoon House II is carved by orders that originate at a distance, and are only passing through on the way to somewhere else.
Keywords
architecture; house; architectural drawing; theories of space
Date
2009
Source
Architecture New Zealand(6 Nov/Dec), pp.60 - 61
Item Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Auckland, NZ: AGM Publishing
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http://www.agm.co.nz/
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Copyright © 2009 AGM Publishing - www.architecturenow.co.nz. All rights reserved. By special permission authors retain the right to place his/her publication version of the work on a personal website or institutional repository for non commercial purposes. The definitive version was published in (see Citation). The original publication is available at http:// www.architecturenow.co.nz/ (see Publisher’s Version).

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