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To be added to the Lego Architecture series, I am proposing the Exeter Library - Section Model...Using Lego Designer I will be recreating the original section model.
The original section model of Louis Kahn's, Exeter Library is a study model that was constructed from chip board and laser cut based on CAD drawings developed from studying original drawings of the library.
Throughout the construction process I found the model as an invaluable tool in gaining a better understanding of fundamental themes in architecture. Studying this model eventually lead to further exploration of its fundamental themes in grad school.
Louis Kahn's work is world renowned and has been influential in the progression of architecture. The excerpt below gives just a hint to why this building, and Louis Kahn has profoundly affected architectural discourse and practice.
""Elemental in its contemporary directness and built also with the sense and durability of the great monuments of history is the Library at Phillips Exeter Academy. In the spirit of the grand, classical tradition of the focal organizing space, the reading room is a central hall encircled by balconies containing the stacks and study alcoves. It is a space diagonally overlooked through giant circular openings in the interior screen walls that define the central area.
"In keeping with the campus tradition, the exterior of the building is a repetition of brick piers, wider as they approach the ground where the book loads are greater, cut back at all four corners to subtly articulate the building's exterior square form.
"The perimeter study carrels are illuminated from windows above the reader's eye level; smaller windows at eye level afford views to the campus or conversely can be closed by a sliding wooden shutter for privacy and concentration. There is contact with and building upon origins in both the library and the [Kimbell] museum. They span time as an architecture of basic fact and of progression as we move onward, aware of both where we have come form and where we are."
— Paul Heyer, American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. p279.
The original section model of Louis Kahn's, Exeter Library is a study model that was constructed from chip board and laser cut based on CAD drawings developed from studying original drawings of the library.
Throughout the construction process I found the model as an invaluable tool in gaining a better understanding of fundamental themes in architecture. Studying this model eventually lead to further exploration of its fundamental themes in grad school.
Louis Kahn's work is world renowned and has been influential in the progression of architecture. The excerpt below gives just a hint to why this building, and Louis Kahn has profoundly affected architectural discourse and practice.
""Elemental in its contemporary directness and built also with the sense and durability of the great monuments of history is the Library at Phillips Exeter Academy. In the spirit of the grand, classical tradition of the focal organizing space, the reading room is a central hall encircled by balconies containing the stacks and study alcoves. It is a space diagonally overlooked through giant circular openings in the interior screen walls that define the central area.
"In keeping with the campus tradition, the exterior of the building is a repetition of brick piers, wider as they approach the ground where the book loads are greater, cut back at all four corners to subtly articulate the building's exterior square form.
"The perimeter study carrels are illuminated from windows above the reader's eye level; smaller windows at eye level afford views to the campus or conversely can be closed by a sliding wooden shutter for privacy and concentration. There is contact with and building upon origins in both the library and the [Kimbell] museum. They span time as an architecture of basic fact and of progression as we move onward, aware of both where we have come form and where we are."
— Paul Heyer, American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. p279.
Section Model - Interior View
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Chris_tx
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