Zibaldone 9

How does a building turn the corner?  I find that a building turns the corner by the use of materials that the building is trying to connect.  The materials govern the possibilities and variety at which a building can turn the corner.  Brick will turn the corner much different than stone or wood would.  Many brick walls that meet at the corner alternate which creates an interlocking pattern between the two walls.  This pattern can be changed when the two walls that are meeting are not at a 90-degree angle to one another creating a gap in the corner bricks.  Stone may also turn the corner similar to brick, but with some larger pieces of stone that changes.  The stone will not be part of the structure, instead it will be hung and be one piece that turns the corner.  Wood I find to turn the corner with joints to create a more seamless transition or a rougher transition.  Sometimes the corner is meet by one wall running into the other, so that one would see the end of one wall and not the other.  Buildings turn the corner in many different ways that can be affected by the materials and the effect that the building wants to create visual.