Voices

Metric:
How we measure things is by using scale often the human scale. Buildings often use one smaller part to base the rest of the building using different shapes. Understanding Architecture by Roth states, “The other building type favored by the early Christians had a centralized plan, whether round, octagonal, or square” (280). The whole of the church was based off of the center and was the same on all sides.


Picture by Byung Hwa Yoo


Precedent:
Precedent, also know as an inspiration image, helps to better understand the building or style you are trying to study. It is used as a reference to “broaden your style” when drawing (S. Cabrera). It is also helpful when trying to make something new, if you were to have something to work off of. You might like a small detail and want to repeat the same thing at a larger scale and base your whole project on the intricate detail.



Presence:
A place in which a certain feeling is conveyed shows that it has a strong presence contain there. If you are in an elaborate church or cathedral you feel the awe in the vaulted ceilings and the way the specific building is laid out, you know what goes on there.



Moments:
Moments are seconds in time in which something significant happens. Each moment has a purpose whether small or large it is important. It could be anything, where people walk a lot near or in a building, or how to ceiling beams come together. It is something that you see that is different for things or joints that you have seen before.



Duality:
Usually between light and dark or black and white, duality is two sided; you cannot have one without the other. Duality is two things or colors fighting for attention, like the white and black paper the black would look more over powering even if it was the same amount as the white. The black is darker so our eyes are drawn to it, though if very little is used there would be a sense of balance in the project.

Precedent, presence, and moment fit together by looking at the object or building in different view points. It is more of what you can feel and interpret for a given space rather than what is actually there. Duality is what you can see happening the story or dialogue behind the objects or spaces. Metric is actually finding the measurements and truly seeing what is there.