GENESIS OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS - INVENTIVE DESIGN IN THE VIRTUAL AGE

Ada Kwiatkowska

Abstract  

The digital architectural visions show that architecture is more and more influenced by virtual reality and concept of cyberspace. The primary forms in architecture differentiate according to the ways of the ideas' expressions. Paper points out the similarities and differences between the initial architectural ideas of the creative process revealing in the intuitive hand-drawn sketches and digital images. Primary intuitive and digital architectural forms are analyzed in the following aspects: primary ideas (concept of a man and avatar, codes of communication and info-connotations), structure (morphological and topological, organic and liquid, order and higher order, motion and animation), shape (floral-like and organic, additive and multi-components, ideals and deformed shells, motion and flow-liquidness, closeness and infiniteness, disintegration and replayed cycles of growth) and context (landscape and virtual, real and abstract) of intuitive and digital forms.

Article:

Kwiatkowska, Ada, Genesis of Architectural Forms - Inventive Design in the Virtual Age, PROJETAR, Rio de Janeiro: PROARQ, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, UFRJ, 2005, e-paper [pp.1-8]

Kwiatkowska, Ada, „A genese das formas arquitetonicas: projetos inventivos na era virtual", [in] C.R. Duarte, P.A. Rheingantz, G. Azevedo, L. Bronstein (eds.), O Lugar do Projeto: No Ensino e Urbanismo, Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa Livraria, 2007, pp.356-367

(drawings by Ada Kwiatkowska)                              

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