Lead,photographic ( pinhole) and inkjet visual material from flickr stream, fixing tapes, cyanotype on tracing paper,pierced and repositioned elements on paper.
Making Entangled : An eclectic synthesis of knowledge fields
Confronting Spatial Intelligence-tracing the use of spatial intelligence.
What are we learning about in the concrete particularity of this space?
Leon van Schaik : Spatial Intelligence
‘Architecture is the product of our spatial intelligence, of its workings in establishing the mental spaces of every individual, and of the spatial values shared by groups.’
The Retreat, Upper Lawn Pavilion. 1959
This country retreat presents itself as a glass box but is grounded by its relationship to the pre-existing masonry of a walled garden.
Leon van Schaik comments that the little glass house retreat built by Peter and Alison Smithson around a walled garden evokes for him memories(mental spaces) of being a schoolboy working in a conservatory in a walled garden at Cliveden, such that the notion of a retreat is this ideal of being built into the walls of an existing walled garden.
You rise up into its glazed upper storey with views over the rolling hills beyond and perch atop the wall on the edge of a threshold space carved out of the woods, or remove yourself from view sink down to the ground and sit with your back to the wall.
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