Chapter 3: Form & Space

Defining space with Horizontal Elements

Base Planes: A change in color/texture in a space.

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Elevated Planes: Notes a change in the space for a different activity.

 

http://www.gastage.com/ga-stage-stage-curtains.html

 

Depressed Planes: Informs the visitir that a new activity is happening in an area in that space. As the space despresses it creates walls.

 

http://www.coolfunpics.com/slides/Dive_In_Empty_Pool.html

 

 

Overhead Planes: Gives its view a sense of shelter, defines volume within a space.

 

http://www.italianplasters.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=3623&limit=recent

 

 

Defining a space with Vertical Linear Elements

 

Single Vertical Planes: A plane that can create boundaries, zones and modify height to increase or decrease enclosure or seperation.

 

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L-shaped Planes: Directional shelter that emphasizes its opposite end and creates circulation.

http://forth.stir.ac.uk/~pmbc1/court-photos.html

Parallel Planes: Defines a space with a strong sense of direction that makes you move through the space.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alley_London.jpg

U-Shaped Planes:  Frames something outside of itself and edefines a space with a sense of escape..

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Four Plane Closure: Self sufficient space that has no openings and keeps people out.

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Qualities of Architectural Space

 Degree of Closure:

Light:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Design Philosophy Collage

Chapter 2 Form

Primary Solids: The origin of a form in the simplest state.

1. Circle: Equilibrium of points.

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/41600/41698/FC_Circle_41698_lg.gif

2. Triangle: Three points that connect to make a plane.

 

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/early_childhood/shapes/tri.gif

3. Square: Four points that connect to make a plane.

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/early_childhood/shapes/square.gif

Dimensional Transformation: The alteration of a dimension without destroying its form.

                                                        

 http://www.deimel.org/images/plain_cube.gif

Subtractive Forms: Removing pieces of a form to create a different form.

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Additive Forms: Adding pieces to a form to create a different form.

1. Centralized: Visual emphasis of a central element.

 http://www.barton.edu/galleries/TheScholasticArtAwards/SK_www/Career%20Center/images/CareerCenter_ANakahira_Emphasis.jpg

 2. Linear: Sequential repetition of forms.

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3. Radial: Visual emphasis on the ends of radial lines.

http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/unlocked/misc-images/network-centralized.gif

4. Clustered:  Close proximity of forms.

http://www.desert-astro.com/Hercules_Great_Cluster.jpg 

5. Grid: Created by horiziontal and vertical lines crossing over each other to create a pattern.

http://www.rca.ac.uk/UploadedImages/laura_perryman_PTEXT_07.jpg 

Formal Collision of Geometry: Two geometrical forms that collide and cross each others boundaries.

1. Circle & Square: 

 

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 2. Rotated Grid:

http://processing.org/learning/transform2d/

 3. Articulation of Form:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ArtTowerMito2.jpg

4. Edges & Corners:

http://homesweethomeinspiration.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

 5. Surfaces:

http://www.architectureweek.com/2004/1027/contents.html