The wedge window shape is, in geometric terms, half of a golden section rectangle divided on a rotated diagonal. When this simple shape is flipped and turned it can be arranged to form a sinuous band of windows narrowly divided, to articulate the rim of a hat. The play of shadow through the windows was to express the lightheartedness and ephemerality of a hat worn on a warm sunny day.
The roof is a rectangular skillion, twisted and slanted to control the amount of sunlight falling on the walls and windows, just as a tilted hat brim would shelter its wearer's face and eyes. It's structure thins out to just a projecting sheet of cladding at the eaves, so as to have an appearance of minimal thickness.
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"a building without emotion is not architecture"
About Me
- Terri John
- Graduate of Architecture Studies at UNSW and currently enrolled in Master of Architecture
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