Patlamış perspektif / Exploded perspective
1- Kapalı yüzme havuzu / Natatorium
2- Spor salonu / Gymnasium
3- Kültür Merkezi / Cultural center
4- Sinema / Cinema
these strategies, in an atmosphere where clients are more interested in
appearance and speed then functionality and sustainability, architects
in China with a more substantive approach have resorted to other more
subtle strategies. One of these is the pragmatic separation of architectural
form from context and program. In China where form and construction are
driving project development the issue of what and where buildings are built,
has become secondary resulting in a flexible mix and match approach to
architectural form. The forms of a hospital can be applied to a bus terminal;
a design for a hotel can be transformed into a school. The use and reuse of
architectural forms in a repetitive way from one project to another allows
for architects to rapidly recombine a set of formal architectural modules. In
this way the architect’s language, while perhaps limited, is articulated in
a clear way. Each project while resembling the one before, still retains the
architect’s signature.
This repetition of form becomes more meaningful when the architect ties
these forms to a set of material and architectonic strategies. The application
of materiality and expressive structure gives the architecture the clarity
required of substantive architecture while still allowing for the repetition
required for rapid design and construction cycles. In this approach, while
the overall architectural strategy is still largely divorced from program
and context, this repetition combined with materiality and structure
has the advantage of providing both the architect and builders certain
efficiencies. The architect works with a reduced palette sacrificing long-term
experimentation with a larger variety of architectural strategies. The builder
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