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.
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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?
ALSO, does anyone have a guess to why the proportions are such? the initial program was a "GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY"
ReplyDeletewhat about these proportions serves the function of "GRAIN STORAGE?"