Non-orthogonal geometrical planning in architecture.

by Dirk Adler

Written in English

Published: 1993 Downloads: 729

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Dissertation (Architecture Diploma) - University of Brighton, 1993.

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Contributions	University of Brighton. School of Architecture and Interior Design.
Open Library	OL20715859M

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structure and architecture are possible. In the ‘high tech’ architecture of the s (Fig. iv), for example, the structural elements discipline the plan and general arrangement of the building and form an important part of the visual vocabulary.

In the early Modern buildings of Gropius, Mies van der. In the first generation non-orthogonal building shapes, volumes were mostly geometrically described by manipulating straight lines or flat surfaces using the commands Copy, Move and Rotate.

The command Scale was occasionally applied when designing tapered shapes, like conical buildings. The Discrete is an emerging body of work that rethinks the basic building blocks of architecture. 97 At the core of the Discrete is the wish to ‘redefine the entire production chain of architecture by accelerating the notion of discreteness in both computation and the physical assembly of buildings’.

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The main emphasis is on the second type. A series of historical. March Back to the Constructing our lives packageArchitecture has in the past done great things for geometry. Together with the need to measure the land they lived on, it was people's need to build their buildings that caused them to first investigate the theory of form and shape.

But today, years after the great pyramids were built in Egypt, what can mathematics do.An axonometric uses a 45 degree plan grid, which keeps the original orthogonal geometry of the plan.

The great advantage of this view for architecture is that the draftsman can work directly from a plan, without having to reconstruct it on a skewed grid.

In theory the plan should be set at 45 degrees, but this introduces confusing coincidences.