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vertical survey
Gothic building in not itself a mass in movement; it mobilizes the spectator too, and turns an act of pilgrimage into a process with definitive direction and gradual accomplishment. Such a building cannot be taken in all at once from any possible viewpoint; from no point does it present a complete and static view, disclosing the structure of the whole. It compels the spectator to be constantly changing her viewpoint and permits her to gain a picture of the whole only through her own movement. Action and power of reconstruction is cinematic in scope.
To begin the semester we will conduct a vertical survey of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Secondly, we will utilize software that initiates computer models of composite botanical specimens that allow for the construction of edge, the dimensioning of surface, and the regeneration of structure. Finally we will define and negotiate complex sets of composite spaces and programs located between a pure vertical organization and associated spaces, and an utterly horizontal network.
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