My first and only thought when I saw the thesis projects of this year was - - "HUGE!" I was surprised by how many of my classmates attempted ginormous projects with many different functions: one project combined a transit station, a stock market, and I think a shopping center. While you can get provocative images from imagining all of these functions coexisting, I just don't think that architects can program a thing into existence. I'm more interested in the things you can accomplish by architecture alone: how a wall connects to another wall, the space in between, how you can carve out an opening in the wall, and how it all looks and feels.
The diagram I uploaded above is one that I made of a wall at Scarpa's Brion Cemetary. See how the wall feels heavy? The wall is built as if it had tilted over. This tilt produces a shadow, which, in conjunction with the moat in front of the wall, makes the wall appear dark and heavy. These effects are what I am most interested in.
My thesis project, whatever it is, will be small, small enough that I can build full scale models of crucial parts.
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