Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Organic Architecture: Stretch the horizontals and open from a low entry into a tall room.
- Type
- Set in Organic Architecture's manner (Repeat one geometry down to signs and furniture, adding no foreign typeface.), and let Vernacular Architecture's lettering (Set the size and position of openings from sun and wind direction) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Organic Architecture's material (Local stone and solid timber joined by plaster and matched metalwork.); bring in exactly one thing from Vernacular Architecture (Use only materials found nearby and detail them so they can be repaired).
- Colour
- Build on #d9d1bd, #77806a, #4d4539 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Modern Architecture, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Organic Architecture Assembling natural materials and curves without reading contours and sun produces a shell that could stand anywhere, missing the principle that unites site, structure, furniture and movement.
- Vernacular Architecture Quoting the form while dropping local material and local builders yields an imitation nobody can maintain, and the reason for responding to place disappears.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Organic Architecture (Style, 1900s–) and its accent from Vernacular Architecture (Style, prehistory–). Structural cues: Integration with terrain; Horizontals; Natural materials; Inside-outside continuity. Accent cues, used sparingly: Local materials; Response to climate; Anonymity and repeated types; The settlement as a whole form. Composition: Stretch the horizontals and open from a low entry into a tall room.. Type and lettering: Repeat one geometry down to signs and furniture, adding no foreign typeface.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Use only materials found nearby and detail them so they can be repaired. Mood: Intimacy, Calm, Luxury, Trust. Color: build on #d9d1bd, #77806a, #4d4539 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Organic Architecture 1900s– / Style / Modern Architecture
Refuses to treat building, furniture, material, terrain and light separately, designing them as one continuum that includes the place and the life lived in it.
- Vernacular Architecture prehistory– / Style / Modern Architecture
Building without architects, grown from local materials, climate and custom. Since Rudofsky's MoMA show presented it as 'non-pedigreed architecture,' it has served as the textbook of climate adaptation and sustainability.
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