Design Studio 4, UoN.
Tutor: Maria Cano Dominguez
This methodology is a 3 stage process :
- Understand the compositional and spatial planning principles of the chosen precedent.
- Ruin/deconstruct the precedent; and
- Reconstruct /reconfigure the “Frankenstein” pieces.
The chosen precedents are:
- Neaves-Brown Alexandra Road Estate, London with Thermae di Titus
- Kisho Kurokawa’s Nagakin Capsule Tower, Tokyo Japan with Andrea Palladios 16th century drawings of Thermae di Constantino, Rome.
- Etienne Boulle’s Bilbliotheque le Roi with Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation, Lyon.