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“Too often perhaps, people think they understand the constituent elements that make up the known world. One recognizes a door, a window, a floor, a roof, a wall, and by extension, thinks he or she can define the broader meanings that combine to form our contemporary experience” (E. Moss 30). Just by cataloguing separate elements in a composition does not mean that they alone make up the whole or even come close. Rather, the placement of elements and their relationship to the parts and to the whole have equal importance. Part of the investigation of this thesis is to come to understanding of the question; recognize the importance of not only the elements, buildings and non-buildings, but to the importance each has to one another.
“A primary goal of … architecture is to investigate the nature of change” (E. Moss 11). By researching change, one can begin to understand the culture of the architecture; the inherent qualities that are the basis of decisions of the past, present, and future. An integral part to these decisions is the “who;” the people that compose the evolution of culture in a particular area. It is important to speak the same language and understand its meaning. When constructing a “newer” use for a space, whether previously built on or not, the site requires the attention of the culture, also know as the context. The purpose for using culture as instead of the verbiage, context is anything but simple. As the word seems to imply, culture includes and surpasses the idea of context. Culture generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significant importance. Far to often the use of context just relates to the physical forms in the nearby or immediate vicinity.
“Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture” (Farshid Moussavi 5). Therefore, if a building exists on the site then inherently it is connected to the culture in some fashion, for better or for worse. Given these connections that already exist, new connections can emerge over time that either support or reject the initial idea.
The current location of the site in Castellammare is on the waterfront occupied by the grain silo complex. The properties of the current building focus on the industry that once thrived on the importation of grain. Although the grain is no longer moving through the piers on the conveyor belts, the experience will still be maintained as the essence of the extension of the connection to the city form the waterfront. This allows the freedom for the concrete forms to be digested, manipulated, and re-presented.
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