A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
From Gravitation Toward Levitation
Architecture is the art of defining and realising forms. Its morphological language was developed progressively, laying the foundation for a specific space-vocabularly. After being an inhabitant of caverns, the homo faber started to recreate the same kind of cavities, using the same ponderous stone material. During this process, a small set of forms was discovered: cone, pyramid, cylinder, prism and sphere. The comprise, alone or in juxtaposition, dissected or interpenetrated, our architecture to date.
Today, the production of high strength materials, efficient especially in tension allows a further step toward more differentiated structural compositions, both in the matter of their components and their overall shapes. The basic morphology of these extremely light structural configurations contains a whole range of forms: antiprisms, polyhedra, torus, space-packings, all kind of hyper-spatial arrangements, creating a completely new architectural vocabulary.
From Gravitation Toward Levitation
Architecture is the art of defining and realising forms. Its morphological language was developed progressively, laying the foundation for a specific space-vocabularly. After being an inhabitant of caverns, the homo faber started to recreate the same kind of cavities, using the same ponderous stone material. During this process, a small set of forms was discovered: cone, pyramid, cylinder, prism and sphere. The comprise, alone or in juxtaposition, dissected or interpenetrated, our architecture to date.
Today, the production of high strength materials, efficient especially in tension allows a further step toward more differentiated structural compositions, both in the matter of their components and their overall shapes. The basic morphology of these extremely light structural configurations contains a whole range of forms: antiprisms, polyhedra, torus, space-packings, all kind of hyper-spatial arrangements, creating a completely new architectural vocabulary.
From Gravitation Toward Levitation
Emmerich, David Georges (author)
International Journal of Space Structures ; 11 ; 3-12
1996-04-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
From Gravitation Toward Levitation
| Online Contents | 1996
From Gravitation Toward Levitation
| British Library Online Contents | 1996
| TIBKAT | 1973
| TIBKAT | 2017
| UB Braunschweig | 1973