Opus Project, Parts: whole

The source of my sketches comes from the Julius Foust building. We've developed groups to study the layout blueprint of a building. I want to add more of what I see when drawing these sketches but they are quik sketches and the boundaries of the area in which I have to work are constraint.

Archetype: Prototype: Hybrid:

After the fall of the Mycenaean civilization 12th century BCE.

One type of building was dominate the temple. For the Greeks the temple was the abode of the gods. The archetype of the temple was a singe room or hut a crude form of temple emerged. This was a wooden structure with upright columns completely ound and central chamber. It is believed that the temple with it's colonnade was an attemp to create a sacred grove. The columns replace the first ones made of wood. The Doric , Ionic and Later the Corinthian orders became promient. The Archetype was the Doric a post and lintel system also known as trabeated. Triglyphs are instinctive of the Doric order. The beams project beyond the walls and are cut off and ornamented.

The orders a structual system for organizing cmponent parts played a crucial role in Greeks search for perfection of ratio and proportion. The Column, shaft, capial, and entablature were measured and decoreated acording to one the three accepted modes. Doric: Archetype, Ionic: Prototype, and Corinthian the hybrid.

Doric columns are without a base, usually fluted and topped by a simple squat capital. Can vary from four to six times the diameter at the base ofthe saft the Doric entablature consist of a plane architrave, a frieze alternating trigyphs and metopes, and a plain crowning cornice.

The Ionic which was used on the temple of Athena Polias at Priene 340BC was feminine , slender, and beautiful. It's style was based on a women's body. The Ionic entablature evolved in various stages, but in its most characteristic form consisted of an architrave divided into three broad bands known as fasciae a continuous frieze either plan or sculpted and often elaborated cornice bearing dentils or tooth like blocks. Ionic columns are always set on a base the parts between the shaft and the crepidoma. The capital bears to spirals volutes and

supports the entablature. The columns were fluted usually twenty-four and deeper than Doric channels. The volute is a spiral scroll that adorn the Ionic capital this was tough to come from the nautilus shell form.

P. 100 The Grammar of Architect. Emily Cole.

The most ornate and slender the orders was the Corinthian. The base of the Corinthian and Ioni columns are similar. The Corinthian capital had two rows of carved acanthus leaves at the base. Above the base were large acanthus leaves from which the volutes stem at the corners of the abacus; the smaller volutes

curved toward the center just under the abacus.. The sides of the abacus could be concave resulting in points at the corners supported by volutes. The etablature was developed in three planes each might have been separated by a carved molding. The frieze as normally decorated with a band of sculptural relief. The Greeks orders were adapted by the Romans and used mostly as decorative elements change the Doric order to more slender Tuscan Doric with smooth base and smooth unfluted shaft. 2.9 p 31 Roth. Other major additions was a composite order formed by placing the volutes of the Ionic cpito aop the  curled acathus leaves of the Corinthian. Romans also made a decorative adaptation of merging a column with a wall a Pilaster.

Prototype for Greek furniture was wood. Oak, maple, cedar, boxwood, olive, citron and beech was used in making furniture. Hierarchy in Greek society shown in the homes of the more affluent families by the furniture type the mural on the walls, and the mosaic flooring. Some of the furniture that archologist have found was made of copper, bronze, iron and marble. The Colosseum was the best example of bread and circus. Entertainment to take the public's mind off their problems.