Scale, Frame and Language

Highway community center in the periphery of Rome

Master thesis (2011)

Contributors

M. Schoonderbeek (mentor)
H. Bier (mentor)
Programme
Border Condition (Architecture) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2011 De Castro Fins Setas, M.
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Published Date

31-10-2011

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Programme

Border Condition

Abstract

The periphery of Rome in its chaotic sprawl created a condition of extremes. Trough time the distinction between private and public space, between low density and high density became blurred generating a condition where different scales of space and time cross each other. This thesis develops a process where this condition of constant limit is premise. Through the understanding how an architectural object can mediate and transform the periphery, 6 disciplines are extrapolated in the research to be used as design tools. Zooming from top-down to bottom-up, the tools are continuously used to frame architectural space which is transformed and materialized with a an architectural language. Scale/Frame/Language is an abstract machine that emerges from the context to become a-contextual, it is a finite set of instructions that has infinite outcomes.