Precedent - Carlo Scarpa

The Italian architect Carlo Scarpa uses a layered, tectonic application of materials to inform how he engages with existing buildings. At the same time allowing how the buildings are used physically to inform how these empirical interventions are articulated.

His process sketches also clearly articulate this methodology of layering and demonstrates the transition of a methodology from abstract concept, through to drawn concept and then built project.

However the question can be proposed what is ultimately informing what here? Does the architecture inform the subsequent narrative or visa versa? Images taken from the Carlo Scarpa Archive.

Bursledon Brickworks.

These models explore the current atmosphere of the brick drying sheds at Burslesdon.

Bursledon Brickworks.

Bursledon Brickworks.