How does Louis Kahn match the architectural design and lighting applications?

Security, what is the design?

We will find that Japanese department stores or retail stores have relatively higher color temperature and uniformity of illumination. Intuitively, it is “bright” compared to other similar places. Why?

Figure: Compared to the same type of supermarket, Japanese-made Jusco will give people a higher sense of illuminance and uniformity.

If you understand that Japan's frequent geographical earthquakes lead to a greater degree of life-consciousness in Japan, you may understand that one of the reasons for feelings closer to daylight is the difference in security needs.

Therefore, the root of all psychological cues comes from the impression of human behavioral memory, and the role of design in the final role of travel requires the “reduction” of pre-motivation, the serious place “monotonous”, the place of relaxation” Colorful" is the reason. The common sense of "order" in architecture and planning and design also comes from the need for the psychological construction of the audience.

For example, the city's network format planning is indeed convenient and intuitive, but it has been criticized as a model for managers to sacrifice their freedom of human development in order to safely pursue management efficiency. For example, the practical simplicity of the Bauhaus style can be seen in large numbers. Symmetry and design order.

Because the age of design services is different from that of people, we can't look at the design from the current motivation or right. "Order" is an important part of the design method. We can look at the great architects and how to build "order". .

Louis Kang's geometric order - juxtaposition

The imaginary Kang is a godfather with silver hair, deep eyes, mystery and harmony. In reality, Kang is a short, awkward, somewhat nervous Jew. It is this ugly man who reinterprets the greatness of the classical architectural space, and together with the architects of the era of venturi and Rossi, breaks the domination of modernist international style and expands the field of modern architecture in different directions. Today, the value of researching Kang is more about re-introducing the modern architecture from the superficial form of merging into the unchanging ontological thinking about order and construction.

Kang uses "measurable" and "non-measurable" to describe the state of design in his own ideal: to create a building space that can resonate with morality with logically clear geometrical rules. The former is a technique, the latter is a sentiment, and the feelings are easy to read and difficult to understand. The purpose of the research method is ultimately to integrate and illuminate the mind.

"Collection" is one of the most basic geometric relationships, and it is also the most common type of geometric order in Kang's early works. "Concatenated" refers to juxtaposition, which is the organizational relationship of A+A. In Kang's geometric order system, "A" is served by space, and "+" is serving space. Each space must be a strictly autonomous unit that is enclosed by a particular structure and is emphasized by the differentiation of the finished face material. It now appears that the geometric order of "collocation" is extremely simple, even simple, and it took Kang to spend 10 years to use it freely.

1 [ prototype]

Ashley Rick Residence

The Ashley Rick residence is the prototype of the juxtaposition order. The living room and dining room are arranged side by side as two separate rooms, with auxiliary spaces between the two and one side.

2 [clear]

Yale University Art Museum

The Yale University Art Museum is a clear juxtaposition of the order. The exhibition space is arranged side by side on the sides of the auxiliary space, and is strengthened by the position of the structural column and the strip-like paving. The positive tetrahedral lattice of the ceiling is wonderful but homogeneous. Processing is the obscuration of the juxtaposition order.

3 [Working]

Forum Review Newspaper Building

The Forum Review Newspaper Building is the most neat expression of the juxtaposition order. From the overall structural framework to the most subtle infill wall masonry, the two main body use spaces and the intermediate service space are precisely distinguished.

4 [interpretation]

Salk Medical Research Center

The Salk Medical Research Center is the most talented interpretation of the juxtaposition order. The laboratory is divided into two buildings, each with a series of “space-structure” units. The auxiliary room is no longer filled with auxiliary rooms, but a "empty" inner courtyard is enclosed. The 45° oblique concrete walls and channels converge the user's view to the distant La Jolla Strait. Known as "the cathedral without a roof"

The last time the juxtaposition order appeared in Kang's work was in his late career, that is, the family planning center, designed and built in 1974, is located in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. After ten years of tempering, the juxtaposed geometric order is still the most powerful gun in Kang.