GRADUATION VINTER 2020
Rabea Sara Gonnsen
GRADUATION PROJECT:
Fragments of Light
PROGRAMME:
Studio 2B: Digital fabrikation og transformation
CONTACT:
+45 5388 8024
rabeasaragonnsen@gmail.com
PROJECT PROPOSAL
This thesis investigates the question of how light as a natural, inextricable phenomenon can become the determining design factor for a series of architectural interventions and sojourns spread out across the island of Tunø, Denmark.
This is done by creating a site-specific architecture formed by light and programs that define the frame for a moment of connection to the universe. This is an architecture that functions as a landscape framing device, that can develop an understanding of a territory, where light and specific site conditions become a corporeal experience. The thesis seeks to present light as something poetic, as the intangible material in architecture and the alchemic catalyst for the constructed world.
There is a deep-rooted urge within the human species that seeks understanding of our position in the world, of who we are in this world, and how we are connected to the universe. This thesis establishes an architecture that defines light as an experienceable event on earth that tells the story of our position in the universe.
MAPPING THE INTANGIBLE
SPACES OF LIGHT
TOPICALITY
“Through light, architecture becomes a corporeal figure, transforming material into intellectual pleasure.”
(Frascari, Marco)
My fascination with how light determines the atmosphere and perception of space is what sets the intention of this thesis. The thesis explores how the architectural element of openings are used to allow and direct the spreading of light throughout space. It explores how built material is used to create the boundaries for the unfolding of light.
“Of the element of a room, the window is the most marvelous. The great American poet Wallace Stevens prodded the architect, asking,” what slice of the sun does your building have?” To paraphrase: What slice of the sun enters your room? What range of mood does the light offer from morning to night, from day to day, from season to season, and all through the years?”
(Kahn, Luis)
The opening is what creates the connection between the outside and inside. Today there are certain requirements towards light in an architectural design, and there is a tendency the way these requirements are made and satisfied limits how daylight is directed in inhabitable spaces.
Through this architectural approach, I aim to create scenarios that invite moments of connection and activity through the intangible materials of light and shadow. I wish to establish an architecture that presents light in different ways and reminds us of the connections between life and the universe through light. A site-specific architecture formed by light is what sets the frame for moments of connections to the surroundings and the given moment.
ARCHITECTURE FOR THE OBSERVATION OF DAYLIGHT
