Steam Baths Daidala

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The daidala attempts to identify architecture in a non-representational way. Through sculpture and physical and sensory experience, we gain a new sight into the future design.

The Steam baths, like the traditional wedding dance ceremony, is a public choreography of social interaction and purification.

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Yamamoto Shinto Shrine

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The Shinto Shrine for Jiro Yamamoto sets a modern standard to the ancient tradition of Shinto Shrines. The delicate foundation stands like a Praying mantis on 120 legs above the fragile soil and rock below. This shrine protects the earth and waterfall used in the ritual of ablution. The ritual for Shintoism is the act of cold water ablution. Jiro’s experience was synonymous with this act or rite of passage.

1. Run
2. Spirit Shake
3. Pray
4. Deep Breathing
5. Enter Cold Waterfall
6. Cleansed
7. Tea Ceremony

Program Menu:
Public Worship hall: Haiden
Morning Prayer
Chant
Gohei Bell
Lucky Note

Private Offertory Hall: Heiden ishi-no-ma
Offering of Prayer
Offering of Music
Offering of Paper
Offering of Food

Private Tea Room: Sadau
Afternoon Tea Ceremony
Clothing Room
Wood Room
Fireplace Tea Storage

Private Sanctuary Bridge: Honden
Cold Water Ablution
Deep Breathing

The Shinto Shrine on Lake superior acts in accord with social, economic and environmental stainability.

Like a Praying Mantis, Gently standing above a flower, the Shinto Shrine delicately stands above the land as if it were on toothpicks. Only metal bolts ever enter the rock below, which supports the structure.

The roof structure furthers the protection of the land and the building.

The sun enters the clerestory only during the colder seasons. Missing tree leaves and low sun angles allow this to occur.

With the ceremony of Tea, the room is only heated during time of use. The furnace is fueled by wood found on the forest floor: a fully sustainable practice.

The summer months are cooled by the waterfall spray, wind through the open walls and shaded overhangs.

During the winter months a ‘coat’ covers the building by simple screw on walls.

Maple trees are purchased well priced and locally in Michigan and Wisconsin. Trees are a natural and fully sustaining material unlike the poly- materials.

Teak wood is used for the water soaked bridge to prolong its lifetime. Water does little to rot Teak wood. It has been used on sailboats for many decades.

The delicate nature of construction, the cheap price of wood, the high detail design, great community project, and the local beauty of the waterfall makes the Shinto Shrine a sustainable building which will last for a very long time.

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Christ the King Chapel

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A Chapel addition to the Christ the King Chapel in Agincourt, Iowa lays a foundation for experiential glee. The use of stain-glass windows within a mullioned roof unites the earth with the sun during the golden hour. The structure, like the ribs of a fish or a hull of a boat open the space to the alter of ceremony.

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The Dialectic Discourse of a Lazy Fellow

What is thy context?

Well time has arisen to find rapport on certain absences. All mild and sharp come days of lax for seasons bring harvests of knowledge. Work of walking, talking and photo taking deliver each their own in terms of discovery.

A harbour? A tunnel? A canal? Make a choice without context and you shall find design discovery. But you shall also be led astray is the realm of imagination. Design comes from much more than a mere use of a pretty photo or a neat feature--the deep treasures of "Human Ritual" brings total discovery! 

With all my clamoring and odd dialect we all find ourselves confused. 

{This is due to an absence of context.} See, once you understand the bases and grounding you find yourself re-reading and questioning what you just read. With the final and upcoming thesis year, all confusion will and must be dispersed to make way for future endeavors. I must learn what I can and find solace in what I know.

By solely studying Human Rituals the built environment will be crafted into purpose.

[Thesis topic]

Borromini-Bernini

The Site of Four Fountains Borromini

The glorious white dome

Baroque in flavor

A cloister for good sake

A lovely wood office

A passage into light

Music Hall

Museum

Crypt

Site of Bernini

Oval Space Arcade

Golden Arch

Golden Ceiling

Golden Alter&Baroque Marble

Arch and Statue

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With an accidental discovery and once more another, the original rivals found solace in my joyous heart.  Feigning broken banks and lack of clients, few architects try desperately to design away the other. Arch Enemies are expensive. Bernini had the loot though. Marble flourished within his gold-covered sanctuaries. Borromini relished much less in materials though. But his architecture was imbued with Gold as well--in spirit. Challenging to design without funds tends to craft intriguing architecture.

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A Living Painting

To step before a Grand Majesty

and a Living Will

To paint such a Omnipotent space

Languishes all before it

And the breath of light

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Gazing wide-eyed and deep into the chasm of an omnivorous structure shall send the classic shiver rupturing down the spine of any deponent. The Pantheon--a rather ancient building--is an paradigm of a Living Painting. A building that exemplifies the true beauty in design in which every angle becomes another frame. In some blunderbuss fashion, photographing any movement shall provide a lovely canvas.
There are few true designs that provide this means of photography.

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