The fundamental
elements of the apartment building (the public circulation core, the
personal
services core, the living spaces, and the balcony) are here clearly
defined
as experiential events in a composition that articulates the four
emotive states
of common contemporary urban living-- eating, social indulgence,
working
and sleeping . Here they are juxtaposed as functions or
spheres
of influence radially emminating invisible boundaries that co-partition
the pentagonal geometry. Vesical areas of union between these
amplitudes of behavioural influence, and the interstitial space between
their close space packing delineate liminal conditions where form
possibilities
can occur in the otherwise generally vacuous floor plate.
Architecture is predicated by the inspirational
discourse over the function and
symbolic significance of "wall"; the nature and purpose of exterior and
interior wall, and
the
interplay between the two (( the
exterior
wall as that strong , imposing, protective, and enduring delimitor of
a
human-scaled microcosmic space within the all-containing and impartial
macrocosm; the interior wall as that soft, containing, supportive
backdrop
to human behavioral exigencies), (the exterior wall as creator of the
personal,
the interior wall as profiler of the former's character)) the
compressive and the tensional, the constrictive and expansive become
artistic vehicles particularizing form.
Slender pentagonal
towers each house one apartment per floor; each floor affording the
ego-figure access
to just its own apartment.
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