Detail Structure – Based in Merida, Spain, the National Museum of Roman Art carries a strong sense of history behind it with a solid column grid and its circulation toward/within its substance.   The well-known Roman arches are a subtle yet powerful statement upon entry.   Design wise not only serves for structure but continues to create a smooth sight for visitors on their way to experience one of the greatest cities in the Roman Empire. Detail Material – Physically, Moneo used brick walls, iron railings and concrete slabs throughout the building.   He uses hints of gold and red paint on the walls to compliment the great deal of sunlight penetrating from above.   This gives the visitor a feeling of time travel, allowing them the full experience being able to bask in the multitude of glories and antiquities of the Roman Empire. Detail Context – Moneo does not exaggerate any of his architecture designs.   He simply creates a casing for the "gold" ...

Concrete, brick tiling, and wooden beams were used as structure in various ways throughout interior and exterior spaces.  Vaults formed with material were to create permanent shuttering (Catalan Vaults).

Modernist intentions- Garden Building, St. Hilha's college    The garden building would be considered to be modernist building. From reinforce concerted and how the building is tectonic, due to the columns jutting out the structure. (Delando & Ari)

Detail Context- Garden Building, St. Hilha's college    The façade system also plays along with the context of the interior and exterior of the garden building. The triangular shape is articulated in the covered exterior walkway; the interior doors also have that repetition of the façade. If you look at the wall located at the steps in the building, it also has this on going triangle repetition. (Delando & Ari)     

System- Garden Building, St. Hilha's college    Peter and Alison Smithson created a concrete and wood façade system. They took the building structure and pulled the columns outside the walls. The façade widows have large glass openings. Therefor he used large wood timber to reduce sun glare and it gave privacy to the ladies who dorms there. (Delando & Ari)

The interior design plays with the use of natural lighting and how it enters each of the spaces. There are various geometric skylights that bring light inside. Aalto wanted the users of   Wolfsburg   to have enough reading light in the library space and auditorium spaces, and he designed very schematic placements of these skylights to achieve this. He even designed them so that they can be manipulated.  

Program- Garden Building, St. Hilha's college    On the ground floor there are studies, trunk room, service spaces, a gallery and a out door green space and cover walk way. The second and up consist of the bedrooms, private studies, living rooms, ironing area and galleries.  (Delando & Ari)

a combination or arrangements and the ordering of all the elements in a work that each contributes to the total aesthetic effect. This is seen in the interior of the building. With similar materials and same esthetic value and openings. merging of one thing into another; the process of bringing together into one. The building blending in with the topography of the surrounding forms a union between nature and the building itself. Everything he creates is harmoniously in balance though evidently sharp. He believes that less is more. https://www.slideshare.net/nabeelajoomun/presentation-final-1-50381306

The building is composed of four sections: the municipal library, a small school for adult education, an area for hobbies and entertainment, and an area for club meetings and community service events. The design is made up of a few different spaces that radiate around a central square. On the ground floor there are businesses on the street, access to the library and conference rooms, access to the youth house, children's library department and the citizens. On the first floor there are the auditorium of the university, workshops and club rooms and a courtyard for various activities. 

Program- Garden Building, St. Hilha's college    On the ground floor there are studies, trunk room, service spaces, a gallery and a out door green space and cover walk way. The second and up consist of the bedrooms, private studies, living rooms, ironing area and galleries.  (Delando & Ari)

Aalto repeats a couple moves that we have seen from him before in terms of special order. These moves include the bar of offices and his large rectangular gathering space. The rest of the spaces include "floating" auditorium spaces that are descending in terms of size both in height that can be seen straight on in the main façade and this translates in plan as well. 

"The house, by Tadao Ando for the designer Koshin, is a veritable maze of lights and shadows. Like Barragan, the architect seeks to reconcile the tenets of international modernism with tradition and landscape, in this case, Japanese. So, The House Koshin is an example of contemporary architecture built in two parallel wings that barely interrupt the landscape. "

Program- Garden Building, St. Hilha's college    On the ground floor there are studies, trunk room, service spaces, a gallery and a out door green space and cover walk way. The second and up consist of the bedrooms, private studies, living rooms, ironing area and galleries.  (Delando & Ari)

Asymmetrical Balance Not symmetrical , with the parts not arranged correspondingly identical on both sides of the central axis. It creates a sense of equilibrium by the arrangement of two sets of forms of different size and shape. In this case the middle staircase acts like the line of symmetry and both sides have asymmetrical balance.

Except for Aalto's reused bar of offices in the floor plan, the entire ground floor is offset columns around the perimeter. The structure is holding up the reading room of the library and auditorium volumes so they look like they are flying on the street. On the interior columns we also see a technique that is reused, the variation of columns for different spaces. Some columns are doubles and other single, however this has nothing to do with the bearing on the columns but the design of the spaces. 

The house is organized into two parallel bodies, joined by an underground passage which define a central courtyard. The body contains a shorter living room of double height, while the longest wing houses a number of bedrooms. The study in the form of a crescent, adjacent to the living room, was added later, in sharp contrast with the composite bodies already in existence.

Another factor worth noting is that there are no decorative elements. The view provided by the wide openings along with the shadows cast by the narrow openings and skylights, and the texture of the concrete both combined, operate as the only ornamentation. Smooth Concrete All the walls are made of this material and are free of ornamentation and in their natural form. Tadao Ando used this material because it is a way to admit light and wind within the walls and creating a sense of serenity and wide open spaces. Another reason why using this material is due to industrialization and technological resources to which access is the architect living in a developed country such as Japan. Glass Widely used to make large glass windows throughout the house. The reason for using this material is giving way to large quantities of light and offer a view of the garden.

The detail thinking for the interior of this building makes it post modernist. Because Aalto didn't only design the building it self, he focused on every details of the light entrance to the joints and even the furnitures of this building. His intensions were for people to really appreciate and understand his concept and the full use for it's highest potential. He designed this building during his mid career when he was experimenting too. He was always fascinated by nature and culture and how we are part of it.He once said "Architecture belongs to culture, not civilization".