This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.He might not have understood the microcosm of balances within the plant, but with an occasional glimpse, he felt it.Simply, as soon as it was possible for a human to improve a microscope, he learnt the nature of a microcosm.The fact is that the sun exists as a microcosm to a macrocosm which we discussed above, as being the ―All.Through a design strategy which focuses on the utilization of path, node, edge,ģ. I will explore this hypothesis in three ways:Ģ. This reciprocal relationship states that a city and its buildings reinforce each other and interact. And just as a building changes the image of its surroundings, so the surroundings will change the image of the building. The more involved a building is with the form and content of its surroundings, the more those surroundings become appropriated by the building. I advocate that the city and its buildings form a reciprocal relationship. Thus a building can be a microcosm of a city by the similarity of physical structure and programmatic structure. They play an explicit part in the continuity of the urban fabric and the urban social life. Buildings are not isolated and self-contained sculptures. Both cities and buildings are platforms for events. Moreover, a building can also have the same diversity of functions. "They are differentiated only by the dimensions of the walls which bound them and by the patterns of function and circulation which characterize them." 3 We can picture this sort of unity by taking the logic of a public place into the interior of the building. We can suppose that these two systems, a city and a building, can have the same geometrical characteristics of spatial forms, but at different scales. In this way, a building can be understood as a small city.Ī city and its parts exchange their analogies of structure between the spaces, e.g. In a building, "paths" are the circulation zones, "nodes' are more active areas within the building based on program or movement, "edges" define spaces, "districts" are differentiated areas in a building often for differentiated users, and "landmarks" are the critical focal points within a building. The building is organized to some degree much like a city.
A building, as one of the units of the city, has structural coherence with the city. The city is defined by particular parts within it. Through my design, I will demonstrate that a building can be a microcosm of its city context in a reciprocal way.Ī city is a network of spaces, in which Kevin Lynch identified the importance of paths, nodes, edges, districts, and landmarks. I have decided to provide a multi-use Institute of Culinary School, because the programmatic and structural diversity of such a building represents the diversity of a city, in both physical and programmatic aspects.
I have selected a specific vacant site in downtown area, which is the best representation of Knoxville's urban fabric. I have selected Knoxville, Tennessee, because it is a typical example of 20 th century American urbanism: a grid with a central business district, pockets of urban decay, and ambiguous sprawl. In my design thesis, I will argue that the building can be interpreted as a microcosm of the city in this way. It connects the urban fabric physically and programmatically. Physical factors, arising from physical settings.įurthermore, I will demonstrate that a building with physical and spatial continuity to its city environment can be fully involved in the urban context. Socio-cultural factors, arising from cultural tradition and social norms. While these elements are common to most cities and buildings, I argue that specific design is developed based on transformative factors in two broad categories: Based on Kevin Lynch's analysis 2, I have identified five fundamental elements: In demonstrating the interrelationship of building and city as reciprocals, I have analyzed three precedents, which will inform my design approach. for if a city, according to the opinion of philosophers be no more than a great house, and on the other hand the house be a little city. I argue that the building can be a microcosm of the city, as Alberti has said: ".
This thesis explores the reciprocal relationship of the building and the city.
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