Niemeyer’s world has high identity. Curving shape, white surface, round circulation… He introduces me into his own different architecture story. Oscar Niemeyer foundation building, white smooth surface make the building looks very neat when I stood in a distance. Also, the giant volume and big ramp determines the height of the building, which creates a sacred atmosphere there. He also used the color of yellow which reminds me I am in Brazil now, it is so real, and so Brazil! The most interesting point of his work is the ramp. I fancy it so much because I cannot only see the vistas from the building, but also my perspective view of Landscape is always changing according to the height of my sight and different horizontal spot. Moreover, it is good to see how people move on this ramp, how can people flow from different direction.
In addition, it is obviously that Niemeyer like to use water. It makes the hard space more soft. For the Niteroi art meseum, it blurs the edge of the building. I feel like the building embraces the landscape so nicely.
The two sketches which is the Education& Health building and Niteroi art meseum. Straight line VS. curve line. Enjoy.
I love your sketches so much. And what a great photo of the different levels of ramp at the Niemeyer theater!
Yuan yuan I love the photo you took for the Oscar Neimer project! It pretty well show the curve shape you mention in your post. I really like the curve shape appeared in Oscar Niemeyer’s project. The curve makes me feel the architectures are flow in a space and quite well fill in the space. Like the theater, the curve is similar with the mountain nearby. They both flow in the space and make me feel this theater is not a only building here but a large area with the mountain. Another thing I really like about Niemeyer’s architectures are the colors use in the projects. It is pretty simple. Like in the contemporary art museum, the only colorful color is the pink ramp. It is simple although the whole building seems really old and make this architectures not really clean. But about the theater, the color of yellow and white make this architecture to be really clean and simple and stand out in the space. This is what I like most about Niemeyer’s project.
By the way, I love your sketches it is pretty cool!!