Topos and Massings

From now on, the architecture would be lost if the landform is designed independently from it. Both your massing development/resolution and the sculpting of your landscape should occur concurrently, with both considerations completing each other in its beauty and in the synthesis of concept. Pay attention to the sketches (Concepts) and the built images of the following slideshows.



01 - Lima Houses, Eduardo Souto de Moura





02 - Mario Botta, Chapel of Santa Maria Degli Angeli





03 - Tadao Ando, Rokko Housing: Pay attention the process of sculpting the landscape that follows the placing of the masses





04 - Tadao Ando, Chikatsu Museum







05 - Tadao Ando, Naoshima Museum




06 - Jun Aoki, Aomori Museum of Art: Idea of space as that between the landscape and the mass, rather than the massing.