Poetically Man Dwells

Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889-26 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in 20th century. He took the phrase that “poetically man dwells” from the poem ” In lovely blue” written by Friedrich Holderlin.

In this article he mainly suggested measurement. The measure is related to poetry. He described the poetic dwelling in the world and poetic making of the world by relating poetically measuring .Measurement both divides and unifies human life. Measuring provides a plan for dwelling. And the relationship of man and nature in terms of dwelling is about sky and earth and measurement of them.

Modeling of Spatial Relations

After analysing the spatial relations of Uçhisar and Zelve we were supposed to produce a model which is representing those studies.

I used the variations of spatial relations of that place. This model occured from 3 different groups that in relation in terms of visual or physical. One of them is 2 different space combined together with another one and creates access between them. In another variation , one single space has a level differentiation which creates a subspace inside of it and have another space between them but they are not aware of each other. One space is almost divided with a part acts like a wall but not exactly a wall. Also it has different types of openings that can be act like a window or act like a door or not both of them. Some openings offers just visual experience or visual connection.

Revision of that study almost has the same space types. This time, we are asked to considered -ish condition which is the thing is not exactly that thing but acts like it. Such as in my model there are some openings that acts like door from lower level but in the higher level it acts like window but they are not absolutely a door or a window. Or there is a kind of staircase that acts like partition wall between 2 spaces.

LABYRINTHS AND CYCLOPEAN WALLS

Minoan Crete: The Sacred Realm of the Labyrinth

The Minoans built their cities on naturally protected hillsides without fortifications. Rather than defensive walls, they built communication towers to protect the island.

Some caves in Crete followed indirect passages like a model of the Labyrinth. At the Labyrinth of Knossos, walled temenos protected the entrance of the sacred cave.

The houses in Gournia showed the equality in economic status and the developed plumbimg is an ancient example of domestic hygiene. They built their houses made of stone walls without doors or windows and the upper floor made of mudbrick walls. They decorated the walls with spirals and botanical motifs. They used the lower floors as cellar.

The first Labyrinth of Knossos collapsed in an earthquake. After the reconstruction, it collapsed again due to volcanic eruption of Thera. Mycenae built its final version. The lower parts of the Labyrinth were desingned as a maze. The Bull Court is the center of there. The stairs and balconies were not symmetric. They led to rooms which are over 1000. The northeastern had workshops and bakery and the southeastern housed the religious hierarchy. The route of sanctuary chambers were winding corridors. The rear elevations were represented with colonnaded loggias that opened to the landscape.

Mycenae: Cyclopean Walls and Megaron Palaces

Mycenae was a small hilltop city. They built their cities according to military necessity and the position of the city arranged for the good supply of water. Unlike Minoan society, they had hierarchical megaron palaces and beehive tombs for warrior kings. Their houses were small without windows and dark. They made their city impregnable by the addition of cyclopean walls. At the same time they added the Lion Gate to the main entry. Every leader built a mageron that inspired the layout of the Greek temple. They changed the type of simple tombs to the monumental ones.

 

TOPOGRAPHY TRIAL

In that study, while analysing the topography of Erimtan museum we also considered the visual experience and human scale in that area. Plane sizes are the representation of their spatial relations.

THE INDUS VALLEY Cities without Monuments

The ancient Harappan culture have been the first urban society that avoid building monuments. The nature and the climate made them to focused on hydrology. They build their towns with straight streets with brick lined drains.

Their settlement system is having a agricultural towns between the modern ones. They build their cities by clearing wetlands and deforesting the hills. Two rivers called the Indus and the Saraswati in that area, had altered due to climate change and that condition forced people to immigrate.

They built modest structures in baked bricks and mud and they left the thick city walls, well planned reservoirs and the brick lined drains that kept the sewage away, instead of monuments.

They also had a geometrical knowledge to built cities in orthogonal order. Physical coordination describes the street grids, walls, canals and drains. They had a political unity while desinging the city.

One of the most specialized building is Great Bath which was eigther a reception hall or a granary or both. It may have religious functions. Considering the surrounding area of the valley, water is a volatile resource. In that sense, it might be a religious use of water.

FLATLAND A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot

At the first chapter of the book, the square who is the narrator, informs the readers about the two-dimensional life of Flatland. It explains the hierarchical structure of the society. Social classes are defined by the geometrical shapes such as the women are straight lines who are the lowest class and the circular shape is the highest class of all. And also the climate and the houses are defined in two-dimension.

The second chapter, the square discovers other worlds .First the square visited the lineland as a vision which is a one-dimensional world and try to explain the flatland nature to the king of there. After that the square has another vision about three-dimension and than the square discovers the spaceland which is a three-dimensional world.

After returning the flatland,the square can not persuade anyone about those worlds and the square becomes a prisoner because of the knowledge of three-dimension.

HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE SPACE IN ERIMTAN MUSEUM

In this study we were supposed to analyse the horizontal surfaces which affects human experience as a group. Our abstract model is a representation of bodily experience according to movement and changes in spaces of the museum and it’s surrounding area. The increased thicknesses are showing the dominancy between spaces and the position of planes are showing the direction of movement.

As a second step we analysed the stairs of the museum in detail. We showed the relations between the staircase and the museum. The landing allows us to experience the visuals of the whole floor of the museum.

Our second model mainly considers the bodily experience according to the number of people who are experiencing the spaces. The size of planes are arranged according to the human scale and the thickness is giving the dominancy of the human capacity of their movement. The voids between the representative spaces are showing that the movement is stopping.

In this model we worked on types of movement. The number of planes and their directions are increasing according to the variety of movement.

DIAGRAM CATALOGUE

After  analysing the relations of Erimtan Museum, we are suppose to produce diagrams according our studies. We mainly focused on movement due human scale. While examining movement, dominancy conditions which includes the facts that effect human bodily experience and the factors that lead movement are considered. Change in movement is also represented in the diagrams.