Week 5

A tabling of our makings for the week. We then moved into groups and chose a making that wasn't our own and responded to it. We then presented our response to the class. I had good feedback on my making. Overall an enjoyable class.

My making for the week. I wanted to look at the idea of borrowed scenery and an "extended garden". The Japanese try to situate their gardens towards a Forrest or mountain if possible because it can create the look that the garden extends off into the distance. I wanted to adapt that and ask could we have public "gardens" rather than keeping everything private.

Lazarin, M. (2014). Phenomenology of Japanese architecture: En (edge, connection, destiny). 

• Talks about the ideas around  traditional Japanese gardens.
• The transitional spaces between rooms
• "better to replace than reinforce"
• "Differentiated by horizontal planes rather than vertical"

Overall talks about the older styles of Japanese architecture as well as Japanese phenomenology within architecture.