Narrative as a Base in Yash Korat
Architecture Guides : Atreya B
Shreya K.What is narration?
A story, a sequence of successive
Actions and Events.
important Events ==> through Time Speeitic Order
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Expressive Form
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language Pointing/Sculpture/ Film Architecture
Where Time and Context becomes VariableNarration and Architecture
Architecture hos always been the bose of history.
Every explanation of ime and context is strongly
recognized by architecture in partial truth.
Take it texts, paintings, films, etc. its elwoys been
part of any narration which impacted and evolved
cultural means with time
* Architecture Supports Narration
* Narration Supports Architecture
* Architecture & Narration is Single EntityNarrative linguistics
Where it began life as a structuralist pursuit for 0
formal system and was subsequently adopted to
other fields such as film studies, curating spatial
experience, architecture.
Narrative structure in architecture?
tangible intangible
Room Movement
Ground light & Dark
Walls Rough & Smooth
Character of architecturePercy Pithawala's Constructivist approach
Thresholds of art and architecture
As the Russian constructivist architecture is a
narrative of revolution such that
revolutionary narratives lead from art and
literature to architecture.Abstract
(One ofthe fundamental concepls of modem architectural theory
isthe idea that architecture isa form of language. IFnarratves
‘exist as Ronald Barthes ond others concludes, as a written, oral,
visual discourse in an ‘infinite diversity of forms, then architecture
‘ond cities become agents that can be studied for their narrative
significance ino presented or mediated form as unmediated
‘existence ie. actual space Thus fo examine how the ordering
mechanismsin literature and ar can informs the Development of
Experience in Architectureactions objects movements
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Bernard Tschumi’s Book
the Manhattan transcript
se! of heoretel drawings developed between 1978 ond 1981
Tschumi uses the ‘tiportite mode of notation’: movement,
event, and space.
His work revolves around the aspects of sequence/ program
ofthe images, the movements that occur from the sequence
and the form that comes of
The inlent seems to be to explore architectural narrative os
something other than an architectural encoding of writen text
- ie. e native language for architecture based onspace and
eventsrather than form! or function’Wassily Kandinsky’s Book
Point line to Plane
The theory Point and line to plane, he explored the
interrelation between color, form, line direction and intensity
ofthe pointio create an aesthetic experience. In this way the
artist engaged the sight, sound and emotions of he public.
The theory about points, dots create @ reference point in
relation tothe space around ita line is el about movement.
The line con diect you towards and move you away from
point. However, he figures motion as an element itself
without invariably representing that which moves or has
moved
ing paWassily Kandinsky’s Book
Kandinsky’s development of mastery over the
Expression of Motion intrigues me to work
alongside Tschumi’s definitions of Movement
and Space in architectural representation
Ultimately it generates the exercise to see simple
forms and images of expression, the skill which
becomes essential when forming and
manifesting a narrative, specially in age of
information and communication.Aim
To investigate the art & literature expressiveness,
such that it leads to generate a process for
tural design and thinking.
Objectives
To identify the threshold between art and architecture
To identify the traces between the theory and design
praciice in Parc Lo Villette by lschumi
To analyze the narrative theme from the book ‘The
Manhatan lranscrip’ & ‘Point & line to Plane’
To derive a patterns from abstraction in form of
illustrations and models
To observe and analyze the spaces through the lens
‘of derived processResearch Questions
Does Narrative fulfills the gap between Fiction
and fictional?
How narrative os part supports the detailing of
space
How linear and nor-linear understanding would
help figure out what is missing in todays
narration for architectural future?
What is manifestation of intellectual and
experiential understanding?Methodology
eit & ne fo Fane
iy
case study
Buildings
cose study
Represent
asa condlusionScope & Limitations
The study covers the aspects of art and literature
only
The study is limitated to the study narrative theme
in Bernard tschumi’s The Manhattan transcript
and Kandinsky’s Point & line to Plane.
Further analyzing limitated to the case study of
part of a city or buildings with similar programsReferences
Narrative and Architecture : the formation of space & cultural
meaning by Psarra Sophia
Norrative Architecture by sylvain de bleeckere
Mind and image : an easy on art and architecture by Greene
hub:
Cine | Scapes : cinematic spaces in architecture and cities by
Richard Koeck
Concerning The Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
Nigel Coates, NATO at AA
(UG Thesis) Expressiveness and language analogy in
corchitecture by Korlikeya Chhayo.
(UG Thesis} Architecture in he expressionis frame of mind as
typifies in the works of Bruno taut and Erich Mendelsohn by
Vandana Shah,