Painting , Analysis, Sentence

Project 2

Chosen Painting: Edward Hopper- 'Hotel Room'
- Figure is hunched, facing away from the brightness, hiding.

Emotive and phenomenal qualities:
- confinement, isolation, cramped, exhaustion, worry.

Analysis of the density and depth of the painting.

Analysis of the geometry of the painting:
- Crisp vertical lines.
- Eye is drawn to the figure, then to the large white space behind her, followed by the dark. cluttered corner.

Narrative to inspire my sequence of rooms:
A maze-like container for a woman who plays hide and seek with the world.

The Completed Model

The front facade.

The first section being removed.

Model after the first and second sections have been removed.

The remaining core after all three sections have been removed.

The Completed Model, Completed Parti & Poche Diagrams

Final Parti Diagrams.

Final Poche Drawings.

The remaining building core after all three sections have been removed.

The three removed sections.

Model Progress Photos

Parti and Poche Progress

Experimentation with different ways to draw my parti diagrams.

Ideas for my poche drawings.

Robert Venturi- Mother's House

Photograph of the exterior showing the relationship between the building and its context. This will be helpful when considering the massing (enclosure) Parti diagram:

Notes for Geometry Parti diagrams:

'The plan as a whole reflects the symmetrical consistency of the outside; outside, the perforations in the elevations reflect the circumstantial distortions within. Concerning the inside, the plan is originally symmetrical with a central vertical core from which radiate two almost symmetrical diagonal walls that separate two end spaces in front from a major central space in back. This almost Palladian rigidity and symmetry is distorted, however, to accommodate to the particular needs of the spaces: the kitchen on the right, for instance, varies from the bedroom on the left.'

From Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi, © 1966

Filefront Link to Final Environment