UCLA A.UD TECHNOLOGY I: PROJECTIONS
Fall2014
Professor: Mohamed Sharif
Teaching Assistant: Kara Moore
Ad Quadratum is an organizing principle found in Roman and Gothic architecture, characterized by a square inscribed within a larger square, so that the area of the larger figure is double that of the smaller one. Thus the resulting figures and geometries maintain an inherent proportional relationship.
This kind of architecture is thus generated from and actively embeds proportional relationships within its complexity. Using the Ad Quadratum construction method, a conventional plan of the Pantheon in Rome is dissected to produce a plan of latent symmetrical geometries.
PANTHEON-OID challenges the symmetricality of the Pantheon by prescribing the two-dimensional geometric investigation onto an ellipsoid form. The new form mimics the hierarchical organization of columns, heights, arches, and vaults, while producing new interstitial spaces.