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Inside a Salk Institute's study
Louis Kahn articulated three essential concepts: 1. Separation of the perimeter walls as to the major structure with a view of exposing them to a more dramatic interplay between light and shadow thus making them look like some "enveloping ruins"; 2. Sever, serial, and hierarchical articulation of the volumetric shapes identified in their own geometry and structure.; 3. Clear-cut functional distinction between "serving" and "served" spaces, displaying in horizontal and vertical section simultaneously.
Kahn also integrated mechanical and electrical services into this architecture, which gave laboratories a new concept. These technologies were hidden in the design to continue Kahn's search for order in the plan. Ceiling and column ideas were also combined to separate the air that you breathe from the air that you throw away. Interlocking volumes are present throughout the structure, all the way down to the details on the furniture.
Although modern in appearance, it is essentially an isolated compound for individual and collaborative study not unlike monasteries as sanctuaries for religious discovery, which directly influenced Louis Kahn in his design. The Salk Institute is his masterpiece reinterpretation of the monastic “intellectual retreat” in our day and age.
Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1366
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