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/  by Thomas DeVoss

amazing project in real life. decays into the surroundings, allows plants to grow over and around it, just beautiful. acidadebranca: Black, White & Grey Plans [534] co-zine: 110808 - Enric Miralles’ plan of the Cemetery at Igualada. My tutor, …

amazing project in real life. decays into the surroundings, allows plants to grow over and around it, just beautiful.

acidadebranca:

Black, White & Grey Plans

[534]

co-zine:

110808 - Enric Miralles’ plan of the Cemetery at Igualada. My tutor, in talking about precision of drawing, wondered how specific Miralles had been about the placement of the sleepers inlaid within the floor. It would be hard to tell how exactly this was specified - but from the above drawing, it at least seems that they were placed in specific locations. Still - this discussion of intention and exactness has always bubbled in Miralles’ work - from the setting out of a croissant, he is acutely concerned with the absolute specification of an irregular curve, but in the Mercader’s apartment roughly laid patches of tile are left blank on the drawings. Maybe this juxtaposition in the plans is what gives each piece of the drawing it’s own feel and in the final buildings creates a tension between the elements. Precisely crude or crude precision.

/  by Thomas DeVoss

acidadebranca: Black & White Plans [678] Fallingwater is constructed on three levels primarily of reinforced concrete, native sandstone and glass. Soaring cantilevered balconies are anchored in solid rock. Walls of glass form the south exposure…

acidadebranca:

Black & White Plans

[678]

Fallingwater is constructed on three levels primarily of reinforced concrete, native sandstone and glass. Soaring cantilevered balconies are anchored in solid rock. Walls of glass form the south exposure, and a vertical shaft of mitered glass merges with stone and steel to overlook the stream.

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