These drawings attempt to synthesize how a linear basilica form might stem from a square volume. The first drawing is intentionally church-like, but I find the two derivations below to be more interesting – the first with apses at either end, and accessed from the short axis; the second with the stair tower volumes repeated, more of a town-hall.
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Hi Nick!
I like your ideas. I like your drawings….but where’s the drawing of er cuppolone?
Just teasing:)~
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Be assuaged, Susan, many cupolas await! Thanks for taking a gander at ‘frame’.
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[…] the first square is further development of a project I featured some time ago, where the square is the internal volume (indeed cubic in it’s […]
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