Act of Entry - Kevin Low

Kevin Low

Act of entrance is a spatial event, a threshold, moving from one condition to another (smooth loose supple space) every point and sub-condition. Every threshold, point, and sub-condition has tangible architectural elements, ie how much light, accessibility, what do you feel, (affect and effect notions), right down to the detail (macro to micro). It is the narrative which informs the act of the entrance?

Steven Loo

It is a interesting exercise where the idea of microcosm relating to the Macrocosm of the design. That is not to say that there is not a possibility of a complete representation of the whole macro idea of the design in the detail. But the detail of the microcosm should be able to narrate, to be a kind of narrative of what the design research question is. In the design there is a series of thresholds that one.

Kevin Low

Ceridwen had an interesting point that a lot of designs happen as a Top down approach you have a form, and you start to refining it. But some of the better work that I’ve seen is a dialogue. The design happens as a Vibration between the concept and the detail at all levels. The deep one goes down the rabbit hole the deep the ideas, the more profound and interesting your ideas will

The entry/entrance/threshold is the divide between the inside and outside or the object and the void, from one condition to another, or sub-condition.

Macrocosm and microcosm is a Neo-Platonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale (macrocosm or universe-level) all the way down to the smallest scale (microcosm or sub-sub-atomic or even metaphysical-level). "Macro-" and μικρο- "Micro-", which are Greek respectively for "large" and "small", and the word κόσμος kósmos which means "order" as well as "world" or "ordered world."

Reference

Kevin Low web site http://www.small-projects.com/index.html

Republic, Plato, trans. By B. Jowett M.A., Vintage Books, NY. 435, pg 151

Theories of Macrocosms and Microcosms in the History of Philosophy, G. P. Conger, NY, 1922, which includes a survey of critical discussions up to 1922.