| Title |
A Study on the Re-interpretating the Expressive Property in Exterior Envelope of Architecture |
| Keywords |
exterior envelope ; ornament ; structure ; expressive property ; dressing |
| Abstract |
The Objective of this study is to re-illuminate the role of the ornament in pre-modern times through reinterpreting discussions on the ornament and through examining the changes in material bases of the ornaments, and to search for the possibility of the ornament, rational and at the same time expressive, reconsidering dichotomous classification of the structure and the ornament. Before 19th century, the desire for the expression was manifested mainly through revealing the constructional organization of the structural body, or through the ornaments attached to the structural body. and the ornaments also delivered the symbolic meanings of the structural functions or controlled the shape, unevenness, proportion, density for the organic harmony of the exterior envelope. That means, the structure and the exterior envelop were intimately integrated with each other, so that they served for the functions of each other. As a result of re-examining the discussions which has classified the structure and the exterior envelope dichotomously and has argued about the predominancy of the two, the classifying concept according to the different interpretations of the historians were dominant, and it was validated that the both could be considered as a essential and indispensible elements that satisfies structural rationality and expression if the relationship of the structure and the ornament is reinterpreted in the view of integrity. After 1914, Dom-ino, though it was regarded as the deloaded exterior envelop was abstracted or removed according to the economical and functional demands, actually, ornaments were interpreted and transformed in a new way that it just had been extant in a form of white external skin. The modern architecture was just placed in a transitional period of new interpretation, when the modern architecture could not remove the ornament totally and the society or technology could not accept radically changing material basis in aesthetics |