ABSTRACT
This chapter explains cross-sections serve to augment available information about the experiential character of individual daylit spaces at a variety of scales. Even at the earliest stages of design, architectural cross-sections should be drawn with building orientation and the intrinsic qualities of specific kinds of directional light clearly in mind. Contemporary architecture, by contrast, frequently minimizes the physical dimensions and the design possibilities of margins and grids. Building planning grids are principal planning tools in the development of every architectural project. Historically, spacious margins and their capacity to accommodate multiple activities and servant functions on the periphery of a given zone have played a key role in both thematic and non-thematic design, offering rich and ambiguous overlap and multiple readings of architectural space. A linear progression of five massive sitecast concrete frames establishes the building's structure, rhythm, surface texture and views, while also setting up for its cantilevered interior and exterior balconies and sleeping porches.
