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FORM
- Meaning of Form
- Properties of Form
- Shape
- Primary Shapes: Circle, Triangle, and Square
- Primary Solids
- Regular and Irregular Forms
THEORY OF D E S I G N
- Transformation of Form
FORM - Subtractive and Additive Forms
Form
Form While form often includes a sense of three-dimensional mass
or volume, shape refers more specifically to the essential
aspect of form that governs its appearance—the configuration
or relative disposition of the lines or contours that delimit a
―Architectural form is the point of contact between mass and space … figure or form.
Architectural forms, textures, materials, modulation of light and shade,
color, all combine to inject a quality or spirit that articulates space. The Shape The characteristic outline or surface configuration
quality of the architecture will be determined by the skill of the designer of particular form. Shape is the principal aspect by which
we identify and categories forms.
in using and relating these elements, both in the interior spaces and in
the spaces around buildings‖.
In addition to shape, forms have visual properties of:
Size The physical dimensions of length, width, and depth
Edmund N. Bacon of form, while these dimensions determine the properties of
a form, its scale is determined by its size relative to other
The Design of Cities forms in its contexts.
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Visual Inertia The degree of concentration In architecture, we are concerned with the shapes of:
and stability of a form. The visual inertia of a
- floor, wall, and ceiling planes that enclose space
form depends on its geometry as well as its
orientation relative to the ground plane, the - door and window openings within a spatial enclosure
pull of gravity, and our line of sight.
- silhouettes and contours of building forms
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Guggenheim Museum :
Bilbao, spain 1997
By Frank O.Gehry
Cinémathèque Française By Frank O.Gehry
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A form can be transformed by altering one or more of its dimensions and still retain as a member of a family of a
form. A cube, for example, can be transformed into similar prismatic forms through discrete changes in height,
width, or length. It can be compressed into a planner form or be stretched out into a linear one.
Subtractive Transformation
A form can be transformed by subtracting a
portion of its volume. Depending on the extend of
the subtractive process, the form can retain its
initial identify or be transformed into a form of
another family. For example, a cube can retain its
identify as a cube even though a portion of it is Subtractive Transformation Creating Volumes of Space:
removed, or be transformed into a series of
Gwathmey Residence, Amagensett, New York, 1967, Charles
regular polyhedrons that begin to approximate a
Gwathmey/Gwathmy Siegel
sphere.
Additive Transformation
A form can be transformed by addition of elements to
its volume. The nature of the additive process and the
number and relative sizes of the elements being Additive Transformation of a Parent Form by the
attached determine whether the identity of the initial Attachment of Subordinate Parts:
form is altered or retained.
United d‘Habitation, Venice, 1577-92, Andrea Palladio
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Plan of an elliptical church: Pensiero Della chiesa S. Carlo YAHARA BOAT CLUB (PROJECT): Madison Wiscosin 1902
A project of Franscesco Baromini A project by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Kanchanjunga Apartments
Gwathmey residence , New York by Ar. Charles Correa- 1983
by Ar. Charles Gwathmey -1967
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Very easy
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Jail
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