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Integrity, Consonance, and Clarity since antiquity have been defined as the criteria for what makes a creative work beautiful.
The principal architect, in his education in ancient philosophy, became enamored with this concept; and adopted it as the firm's motto and method of delivering excellence in architecture to clients.
While investing integrity, consonance, and clarity into the process, beauty is simultaneously woven into the fabric of the final work. What could be more invigorating and inspiring!?
WHAT DOES THIS APPROACH LOOK LIKE IN A PROJECT?
Firstly, it does not mean that the goal of a project is an aesthetic, cosmetic, or subjective result.
These criteria for beauty are a conceptual, integral, and objective means of analysis for any project.
Such a method of analysis inevitably produces a beautiful result.
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THE CASE STUDY USED TO MANIFEST THIS APPROACH IS THE FIRM'S PROJECT, THE HOMESTEAD.
Beauty, and its inherent constituents of Integrity, Consonance, and Clarity, are always in relation to what something is.
The first question the firm seeks to answer is what is the project about? Define the concept.
The concept for The Homestead is a mixed use community comprised of commercial and residential sectors whose planning and development strategies' purpose is the holistic health of the community, both member and body.
The planning strategy intends to foster social, educative, and protective functions through intentional scaling and programming.
The development strategy will foster the mental and physical well being of the community by means of integrative approaches to existing and proposed natural systems of the ecology, geography, and climate.
The following diagrams describe different aspects of the concept and how the method of beauty is utilized.
What is beautiful will have the full breadth of the concept manifest.
Such a life is given breath and expression in the vignettes illustrated in this diagram. Click any image to enlarge.
| What is beautiful will have due proportion to the concept. What strategies are proportionate to the idea of integrating and preserving the site's geographical and ecological systems? This diagram highlights several strategies that preserve and imitate the site's natural systems. | What is beautiful will magnify the concept radiantly. How can the planning layout and programming magnify the concept of healthy social interaction? The monotonous neighborhood rowhouse block is replaced with social units of numbers conducive to social interaction and bonding; and these units are pedestrian connected to integral common commercial and recreational sectors.
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