Jauslin D. Architecture with Landscape Methods

Doctoral Thesis Proposal and SANAA Rolex Learning Center Lausanne Sample Field Trip Delft (Chair of Landscape Architecture TU Delft), 2010.Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. A new mindset evolves that changes the core of the architectural discipline: the organization and composition of architectural space as a landscape. The scope of this thesis is to investigate and understand architecture that has been designed like a landscape.
In proiects of OMA, MVRDV, Peter Eisenman, Foreign Office or Diller+Scofidio the building inside and landscape outside do not merely interact, but the building is designed as an artificial landscape on its own. Landscape constitutes the inside. The landscape to architecture relation is turned inside-out.
The analysis of the Rolex Learning Center by SANAA is surely an important part of our discovery of landscape methods for architectural design. Landscape is developing here as the aesthetic mediator between nature and human.Part I Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Problem Definition and Approach
Related Research
Practical Information
Signatures
Part II Sample Field Trip
Rolex Learning Center Ecole Polytechnique Féderale Lausanne 2004-2010
SANAA Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa Architects TokyoRolex Learning Center Ecole Polytechnique Féderale Lausanne
Appendix
General Bibliography Architecture With Landscape Methods (Part I)