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ISLAND ENCLOSURE
HADRIAN’S VILLA

Yale School of Architecture
Instructor: Bryan Fuermann
Fall, 2024

"Architecture is the only art in which the great struggle between the will of the spirit and the necessity of nature issues into real peace: that in which the soul, in its upward striving, and nature, in its gravity, are held in balance."

— George Simmel

Witnessing the passage of time on a ruin once inhabited by Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD evokes a sense of mortality and the inevitable decay of all things. The imagination fills in the spaces where the structure has been left broken and crumbling—a private retreat or circular isolation for the emperor now reclaimed by nature. One is left to reconstruct the complete form of the past civilization in distortion, yet the circular shape of the water remains intact to this day, reminding us of nature’s triumph over man.

The sketch was created during the Tivoli summer travel of 2024. The translucency of resin is intended to represent the temporality and mortality of human nature. Constructed from memory, it can never fully achieve its original form.

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About

An architect and researcher based in New York and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, currently pursuing a Post-Professional Degree at Yale School of Architecture. His research explores traditional building practices and lifestyles to support the long-term sustainability of nomadic heritage.

Drawings

“For me, drawing has always been the most fundamental way of engaging the world, I’m convinced that it is only through drawing that I actually look at things, carefully. The act of drawing makes me conscious of what I’m looking at. If I wasn’t drawing I sense that I would not be seeing.” -Milton Glaser