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A Train Station – An Urban Square – A Christian Church

For

Aurora, Illinois

Instilling the Opportunity of Community

within the built Fabric

The Activation of a Worldview

Through Architectural Design

• Community Through the shaping of Urban Space and Built Fabric

– Humanity Created to be in Community– You can lead a horse to water – But you can't make it drink

• Elevation of the Human Spirit through Beauty– Roger Scruton and the importance of Beauty– Quinlan Terry and reflection on Classical

Architecture– Demetri Porphyrios Classical Architecture is not-

style

• Clarity of Civic Importance– Through Clarity of Civic Presence (Krier)– Through Decorum of Morphological Development – Through Long Lasting Structure

Monday, May 11, 2011 Derek Anthony Stoner Slide 2







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Community

Through the Shaping of Urban Space and Build Fabric

• Humanity Created to Be in Community– “In his Poetics, Aristotle pointed out that all people are marked by specific physical and

behavioral attributes.”– “The Classical idea of character, however, never stressed individual but always typical

traits”, or the collective conscious as scribed by John Ruskin.


Community


• You can lead a horse to water • The provision of community does not necessarily mean

that community will be fully realized.


Community


• but you can't make it drink– A framework can provide the ability of community

but there is still the need for the choice of the end user.


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Elevation of the Human SpiritThrough Beauty

• Roger Scruton and the importance of Beauty

– In his book Beauty, he lists the necessary pieces of judgment to qualify the idea of beauty in architecture, as well as other things in life.

• Beauty pleases us.• One thing can be more beautiful than another.• Beauty is always the reason for attending to the

thing that possesses it.• Beauty is the subject matter of a judgment: the

judgment of taste.• The judgment of taste is about the beautiful

object, not about the subject’s state of mind.• Nevertheless, there are no second-hand

judgments of beauty.



• Quinlan Terry and reflection on Classical Architecture

“Who Lest all though of Eden fade,Bring’st Eden to the craftsman’s brainGod like to muse o’er his own trade

And Manlike to stand with God again.”Rudyard Kipling

– Genuine classical buildings improve with age because of their use of traditional materials and detailing.

– Building for a hundred years rather than for the moment



• Demetri Porphyrios Classical Architecture is without style

– Beauty is found through experience and knowledge– Classical Architecture is without style rather it relies

on the experience of the designer through personal knowledge.

– “it is not the personality of the artists that determines the work rather the techne (craft), as a body of knowledge, know-how and skill.”

– “What differs from one artist to another is the degree of knowledge and skill or virtue; there is no indication of a personal style that transcends the knowledge of his [craft].”








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Clarity of Civic Importance

• Through Clarity of Civic Presence– Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community– Built Fabric is a balance between res publica

and res economica which combine to create the civitas or the identity of the city

– When speaking of the city, Krier states that, “[i]f factories have the facades of cathedrals and houses resemble royal palaces, if museums look like assembly lines and church like industrial warehouses, a basic value of the body politic is threatened, the very nature of its public realm is in peril.”



• Through Decorum of Morphological Development

– Demetri Porphyrios uses the word decorum to prove a sense of what is, “proper, suitable, ‘fitting’”

– Based on a sense of “moral typology” which fit within the fabric of, in this case, the city.











• Through Long Lasting Structure– Through Designing buildings that can maintain their

civic importance for a thousand years.• Built in Sustainability

– Masonry Load Bearing structure• Above adequate R Values• Simplicity of construction for the brick and stone

layers– proven materials support the idea of sustainability

• Aercrete– A chemically modified concrete block which is lighter and takes

less energy to make

• Recycled Clay Brick– From local structures and reuse stores





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