MONUMENTALITY

I was reading a text last night entitled MONUMENTALITY, written by louis kahn last night and it got me thinking about the project.

I began to draw relationships. first of all, the word "MONUMENTAL" has not been a word that has been used in this project, has it?

Might you say the our building, the grain terminal, is monumental? how do you define monumental? (no seriously, thats a question? and not - look it up in the dictionary - definition, you do YOU define it. how you RELATE to something MONUMENTAL.








additionally, someone was talking about the proportions of the building, and how its very long and narrow. Currently the building is a series of floors, 11 feet separating them. but there is nothing that says, it cannot be emptied out, leaving just the shell. The result being, something very GOTHIC. and what I mean is that the space inside a Gothic cathedral is very high and narrow - just like our emptied shell.

Louis Kahn discusses MONUMENTALITY in this 1944 text in therms of spirituality - do you?