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Organic design requires that buildings mirror nature, be a part of nature, and not look out of place. Repose- Creating an appropriate setting for human life. Uncluttered areas and the use of non-natural materials that have a harmful influence on the environment are not accepted in organic architecture.
Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form. [1] Though the term blob architecture was already in vogue in the mid-1990s, the word blobitecture first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire 's "On Language" column in ...
Bruce Goff buildings (15 P) Pages in category "Organic architecture" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo displayed small apartment units (capsules) attached to a central building core.. Metabolism (Japanese: メタボリズム, Hepburn: metaborizumu, also shinchintaisha (新陳代謝)) was a post-war Japanese biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.
Hyperboloid building cathedral vaults Antoni Gaudí: An unfinished building with hyperbolic paraboloid vaults. Shukhov Tower: 1922 Moscow Russia: Hyperboloid broadcast tower 160 m (525 ft) Vladimir Shukhov: Unless the international campaign can save it, the 1922 Shukhov Tower is under current threat of demolition. Shukhov tower on the Oka River ...
A small cob building with a living roof Porch of a modern timber framed home. Natural building or ecological building is a discipline within the more comprehensive scope of green building, sustainable architecture as well as sustainable and ecological design that promotes the construction of buildings using sustainable processes and locally available natural materials.
Other well known examples of biomorphism in architecture can be found in the Lotus Temple in New Delhi, by Fariborz Sahba, based on a lotus flower, [15] and the TWA Flight Center building in New York City, by Eero Saarinen, inspired by the form of a bird’s wing.
Biophilic learning space at Ohalo College in Israel.. Biophilic design is a concept used within the building industry to increase occupant connectivity to the natural environment through the use of direct nature, indirect nature, and space and place conditions.