{"id":3004,"date":"2010-06-20T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:01:59","slug":"ordinances-sculpted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/ordinances-sculpted\/","title":{"rendered":"ordinances, sculpted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3006\" title=\"holl-sliced-porosity-block\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/holl-sliced-porosity-block.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/holl-sliced-porosity-block.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/holl-sliced-porosity-block-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[The massing of &#8220;Sliced Porosity Block&#8221;; image via <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolo.us\/architecture\/sliced-porosity-block-in-chengdu-china-steven-holl-architects\/\"><em>Evolo<\/em><\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having previously mentioned Hugh Ferriss&#8217;s drawings of the forms of Manhattan zoning ordinances (and having then speculated on the possibility that architects might design by <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/ordinance-sculptors\/\">sculpting ordinances<\/a>), I think it worth mentioning Steven Holl&#8217;s &#8220;Sliced Porosity Block&#8221;, which is sited on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Chengdu,+Sichuan,+China&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=36.915634,86.572266&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Chengdu,+Sichuan,+China&amp;ll=30.634247,104.065912&amp;spn=0.004902,0.010568&amp;t=h&amp;z=17\">an urban block in the Chinese city of Chengdu<\/a>. \u00a0In Holl&#8217;s recent monograph-cum-essay-collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papress.com\/html\/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568986791\">Urbanisms<\/a>, we learn that &#8220;its sun-sliced geometry results from required minimum sunlight exposures to the surrounding urban fabric, prescribed by code and calculated by the precise geometry of sun angles&#8221; &#8212; it, in other words, is an ordinance sculpture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The massing of &#8220;Sliced Porosity Block&#8221;; image via Evolo] Having previously mentioned Hugh Ferriss&#8217;s drawings of the forms of Manhattan zoning ordinances (and having then speculated on the possibility that architects might design by sculpting ordinances), I think it worth mentioning Steven Holl&#8217;s &#8220;Sliced Porosity Block&#8221;, which is sited on an urban block in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,5],"tags":[68,421,279],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-asides","category-urbanism","tag-china","tag-steven-holl","tag-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}