| Title |
Regional and Recognizable Factors in Free Form Architecture |
| Keywords |
Recognizability ; Regionalism ; Free-Form ; Morphology |
| Abstract |
This paper reveals that regional and recognizable factors are still important even in recent digital free form architecture. However, most of today's digital free form buildings are exhausted by meaningless machine produced shapes that totally disconnects with social and cultural issues. Moreover, when it comes to urban tissue and morphological expression, digital free form buildings seems to follow the same mistake that we saw in the Modern architecture. Nevertheless, no previous work specifically examined the contrasting and/or similar factors between free form concepts and its early precedents to avoid failures that were done in the Modern architecture. In case of Peter Eisenman, process of research in to formal structures and shapes which did not existed prior to his design was based on endless mechanical process. Consequently, neither architect nor client had any decision making authority and the same tendency can be witnessed in today's free form architecture. Therefore, this study designed and experiment that use two free form buildings. One is based on regional image and the other came from a conceptual idea by the same architect. As a result, this study stressed up the important value of regional and recognizable form even in today's digital architecture. |