For my senior year studio project I am designing a student learning center. It is located in Boston and the building I am designing within is located on Boylston street. The building has massive arching windows (part of the reason i chose the building). It is an older building and has beautiful architectural elements.
In Botticellis's Annunciation painting that depicts the angel Gabriel's message to Mary, gray arches composes most of the painting. The arches frame Mary and Gabriel, showing that they are of two different worlds. Mary is enclosed and separated from the angel, behind her is the darkness of the room. While Gabriel is in a sense of openness, with is suggestive to the divine infinite.
I used this painting as a reference for my project. My design intent is to create private learning spaces while also creating a sense of community. I am using the arches to define these two different types of space. Like the painting there is going to be a sense of openness while also having more closed off "darker" "private" spaces.
The study model below shows the different between open and closed spaces and light and dark and how the arches define them.
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