The Fast Guide to Architectural Form

by Baires Raffaelli

Overview

While staying on theoretical ground, this is a very practical guide to the basic forms and shapes in architectural planning and design. The book is foremost a visual guide. The author presents sixty different basic architectural forms with both a schematic illustration and images of the forms applied in buildings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789063694111
Publisher:	Laurence King Publishing
Publication date:	04/26/2016
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Baires Raffaelli (1975) graduated cum laude in Architecture at Rome La Sapienza University, where he has been researching and teaching for years in the field of Architecture Planning and Design to both Architecture and Engineering students.

He has PhD in Architecture, Theory and Planning. Baires Raffaelli has performed research within the fields of housing, population density, and public spaces. The results of this research have been widely discussed and studied, and they have also been the source for partnerships among universities, public authority, and private companies.

He is a co-founder of BRRE Architects, and with this firm he has received both national and international rewards.

His projects and research have often been subjects of articles in architecture magazines.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITION OF THE SHAPE
Mass and Matter
De-Compose by Surfaces
Compose by Surfaces
Folding
Multiplanar
Wireframe
Pointframe
Demi-Transparency

OPERATIONS ON VOLUME
Distortion
3D Folding
Subtraction
Separation
Incompletaction
Hypershape/Abstraction

OPERATIONS AMONG VOLUMES
Scale and proportion
Joint
Sum-traction
Overlapping
Inclusion
Link
Directions
Seriality
Exception/Variation/Gap

GROUND CONNECTION
Shape and open space
Opening/Closure/Passage
Laid
Suspended
Embedded/Merged