The Passionate Pilgrim of Titchfield
Hazwan Ariff Hakimi
  • The Passionate Pilgrim of Titchfield
  • Event-Space
    • Studio Brief
    • Photography Workshop
    • Video Workshop
  • William Shakespeare
  • The Events
    • 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee
    • 1864 Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration
    • 1964 Shakespeare Quadricentenary Celebration
    • 2012 Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival: Poetry Sunday
    • Distillation
  • The Project
    • Sonnets
    • Site Studies
    • Concepts
    • Tectonic Metaphors
    • Programme, Spatial Requirements and Arrangements
    • Design Thesis
  • Precedents
    • Shelter for Ruins>
      • Dovecote Studio / Haworth Tompkins
      • Norwich Cathedral Refectory / Hopkins Architects
      • Kolumba Art Museum / Peter Zumthor
      • Archbishopric Museum of Hamar / Sverre Fehn
      • Astley Castle / Witherford Watson Mann
      • Shelters for Roman Archaeological Site / Peter Zumthor
    • Rehearsal / Gallery Space>
      • Aldeburgh Music / Haworth Tompkins
      • Nottingham Contemporary / Caruso St John Architects
      • The Tanks at Tate Modern / Herzog & de Meuron
    • Library and Archives>
      • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / SOM
      • Selexyz Dominicanen Bookstore / Merkx+Girod Architecten
      • LiYuan Library / Li Xiaodong Atelier
  • Further Readings

Tectonic Metaphors

Materials and surfaces have a language of their own. Stone speaks of its distant geological origins, its durability and inherent permanence. Brick makes one think of earth and fire, gravity and the ageless traditions of construction. […] Wood speaks of its two existences and time scales: its first life of a growing tree and the second as a human artefact made by the caring hand of the carpenter or cabinetmaker. These are all materials and surfaces pleasurably of layered time as opposed to the flat and voiceless industrially manufactured materials of today. 

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters 2