Location : 307 Thompson street, Ann Arbor,
MI, 48104
Type : Expressed
Scale: Sort of large formal joint…(?)
This detail between two brick walls is made
of wood. The whole building is constructed with those brick walls. This is the
front side of the building and on the opposite side; it has same structure with
this wood detail. Materially it is incongruence because one is wood and the
other is brick, but the pattern shows some kind of congruence because, even though
wood detail is vertical, and the brick is horizontal, each wood sticks are regularly
located, so it does not that seems to be awkward when we see the connections
between two different materials.
This
detail has the similar functions with the “Brick Weave House” by studio Gang
Architects in Chicago on the lecture power point because the wood itself
technically needed to support the whole forces coming from each walls balancing
the holes and wood sticks, but also in the night, it works as a ornaments
because the light inside the apartments comes through the holes and it make
same effect like Brick Weave house.
The detail is designed for construing,
which to construct a building that communicates with users. This picture is ‘façade’
which means that this wood detail is connected with the doors. Usually, the
other apartment, this part is constructed with a large glass which let people
see through the inside stairs, but this detail let people do so without
establish glass with the holes. Plus, this detail is the hallway part, and the
two brick wall is room part. That means this building is stretched in the
backward from this façade. On the each side, there are windows of each room,
but the problem is the gap between two buildings next to it is really small so
it is hard to ventilate. Therefore, by making this detail with the holes, this
whole building is able to ventilate from front to the back. So, this detail
addressed practical and significant. However practical it is, the builders
might not know there will be a nightclub building established right next to it.
The sound wave from club is so easily come through these holes, and it is not
good for the users to study inside the apartment. Furthermore, in this long, cold
and snowy winter, setting aside its strong practical and ornamental points I am
still curious the reason why this detail had to be one of the construction of
this building…
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