1. Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth house Less is more Steel and Glass

2. Dulles Airport: Erro Sarrinen Concrete and glass Large span structure

3. Kofu Communications Center Kenzo Tange

7. Site, city, environment and ecology: Context of Architecture
…class of 2010
-Sudarshan Raj Tiwari

8. Architecture: Site and its Nature
A Building is built on a site and sits/stands on it.
MANASARA: VASTUSASTRA
The ground is the site for all dwellings, dwellings must dwell on site. – Manasara 3.5-6
Vastu = site, Vaastu = build on site
The contour, the colour, the odour, the features, the sound, the taste, and the touch; examining these in order the site is ascertained for measurement. – Manasara
Definition: Site and its Nature

10. Acropolis of Athens, Parthenon
Site, Mass, skyline Material

11. Nature & Building

12. Architecture: Site, Environment & Ecology
Site: Spatial character, extent and form, content and elements > land form, water bodies, trees and vegetation
Background and foreground, views and prospects
What’s around it? Context/Environment >>daily variation, seasonal/annual variation
The Earth becomes the abode of all beings because of the sun. – Manasara 3.14
The Sun defines the Physical Environment: LAND - SUN, WIND, RAIN
Site, Climate and Vegetation, hydrogeology
Ecology

13. Nuristan
Cliff site Building against the hill Props Rock-cut and Built mix

15. Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling Waters

16. Architecture: Site, Environment and Ecology
The Site has a physical Dimension – spatial and environmental
What is its extent, what is on it, what is beyond it, what is in front etc
Finite space with boundaries > The contours, the greenery, the water bodies > The senses show it > eyes see it, ears hear it, noses smell it etc.
What envelopes it? Air, Water, Land? Environment - the cover - Vatavarana
The physical environment > Earth and the Sun, Wind, Rain > climate and seasons
Definition: Natural Features, Environment, Ecology

18. Inuit making an Igloo with snow knife

19. Architecture: Site, City, Urban Environment
Urban Dimension: Dense building
City: a complex and dense socio-economic space
City, Public space and Built Environment
How much of Nature should there be in a city?
Definition: Site, City, Urban Environment & Ecology

25. Architecture: City Ecology
Natural landscape> physical, environmental, ecological (air, water, land + heat + sky???)
Urban landscape > physical (form and stylistic context) social, cultural
Streets, squares, greens, amenities, play spaces/entertainment
Working (economic), Living (social), Rest (individual, physical health, recovery) and Recreation (individual and social recreation, mental rest? Recuperation?
Architecture > cool, wet and green? Energy efficiency, local response (energy, material)> Disposability
Inclusive architecture