The Quad

The building I chose is Bingham Humanities Building on campus. The building is located across from Ekstrom Library and next to Life Sciences Building. In the center of all of them is what is called “The Quad.” The Quad is space separating the buildings by trees, grass, and sidewalks. Bingham, like the rest of the two buildings were built with similar architecture style. These styles included square like boxes with mini wing square box projecting out of the main building - The building has three floors and a basement. These projections do have some effect to the design. One reason maybe for the appearance and the other is to block rain or sunlight from above. If a person was to guess what the building looks like from sky view, they would most
This is because of the color and the design of the building. The building has about two different color code. One is the red brick color and the other is the light toned stones. The lighter color stones are used to separate the floors of the building from the outside view. Thus, viewers from the outside can get a better idea of how many floors there are and where does next floor starts. This allows viewers to get a sense of how high each floor and how wide. Therefore, visitors can get a sense of the proportions before entering the building. When it comes to chiaroscuro the building does not a strong chiaroscuro effect. The reason is the building are made of squares and are mainly flat. However, there are spots like under the projected parts of the building that shows chiaroscuro. These projections, for the most part, are located on the top of the building. Thus, chiaroscuro in this case casts shadow below the projected
I would say the overall experience at University of Louisville is great because of the humanities building. I would not want anything else, this building is great as it is. On a daily base, I spent half of my day inside this building. For other students, I would think the same because I see students after class hanging around the building. They could be at the first floor or outside siting by the building. If they dislike this building, they would not be around. Bingham is a special building located in a special spot, I do not think other buildings would do better than Bingham