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Married To The Job
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 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I would suggest that the most obvious answer to your question of why built structures are geometric is that they are simple. Once upon a time, when there were no middle men (or women) between the user and the builder, it was fast? obvious? simplest? to build a form that made of components that were fast? obvious? simple? in the environment.
Consider an igloo or a tipi or a caern. It's about efficiency after all. That, and gravity.
And when you take simple components (like a horizontal beam) and lay them side-by-side (as humans do because it is fast, obvious and simple), you end up with geometric forms....a flat, shed, or gabled roof, etc.
And I agree with the above post, which emphasized that geometric forms ARE natural...albeit some more complex than our brains might immediately recognize.
I would also argue that non-simple geometric forms and organic structures are generally only explored when a culture is no longer stuck in a subsistence-only phase. Constructing difficult structures takes time, money, and MONEY. |
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Checkpoint43
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
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Location: Lexington, VA
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Although plants and rocks can be considered non-geometric or random in size and shape, nature's use of the materials are often revealed in recognizable patterns.
From a robin's nest to a beaver's dam, the manipulation of raw materials can be easily identified.
An anthill, dug out of the earth, consists of tunnels and dens, and every anthill has these charistics.
In the real world, we have use raw materials to shape our world. If it came to the best example of natures use of raw materials for geometric structures, consider the honeycomb patterns of a beehive.
Nature is more than just the raw materials. Nature is also found in the material's use.
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toufic
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Geometrical forms are easier to construct and cost saving (especially when it comes to modular elements;however, experimental architecture has more to do with organic shapes.
Having said this, both geometrical and organic are related in a very interesting way. for example, if we look at plants, they seem to have organic shapes, but if we look deeper to reach their cells, we find out that they are constututed of agglomoration of geometrically shaped cells.
Organic buildings can provide very pure and geometrical spaces, and vice versa is true.....so it's probably the perception of space that matters.
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