2008 SEM 2 NEW START WK 1

Operation between architecture and landscape

This knowledge might escape the terms of building and landscape altogether, focusing on how elements share an urban space, an ecosystem, or a temporal frame.

Five Operations

• Reciprocity
• Materiality
• Threshold
• Insertion
• Infrastructure

Reciprocity stands against hierarchy, an ordering principle through which architecture has historically subjugated landscape.
Materiality challenges an aesthetic tradition of disembodied contemplation.
Threshold precludes a fixed and static conception of boundary.
Insertion calls into question a figure/ground formulation of the city.
Infrastructure critiques an assumption of landscape as originary ground.

What is Figure/Ground?

Figure Ground

http://daphne.palomar.edu/design/fandg.html

An understanding of Site : Terrain, Contextual Form, Micro-climate