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Relationship of Structures and Architecture

The document discusses 6 types of relationships between structure and architecture: 1. Ornamentation of structure - The structural frame influences the overall form. 2. Structure as ornament - Structural elements are manipulated for visual purposes rather than technical needs. 3. Structure as architecture - Buildings like igloos are purely structural with no additional architecture. 4. Structure as form generator - Structural requirements strongly influence building forms. 5. Structure accepted - The architectural design accommodates the structural configuration. 6. Structure ignored - Steel and concrete allow architects to design without initially considering structure.

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Relationship of Structures and Architecture

The document discusses 6 types of relationships between structure and architecture: 1. Ornamentation of structure - The structural frame influences the overall form. 2. Structure as ornament - Structural elements are manipulated for visual purposes rather than technical needs. 3. Structure as architecture - Buildings like igloos are purely structural with no additional architecture. 4. Structure as form generator - Structural requirements strongly influence building forms. 5. Structure accepted - The architectural design accommodates the structural configuration. 6. Structure ignored - Steel and concrete allow architects to design without initially considering structure.

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RELATIONSHIP OF

STRUCTURE AND
ARCHITECTURE
PASCUAL, LOUIE JR. V.
 Ornamentation of structure
 Structure as ornament
 Structure as architecture
6 TYPES  Structure as form generator
 Structure accepted
 Structure ignored

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01
ORNAMENTATION OF STRUCTURE
 There have been a number of periods in the
history of Western architecture in which the
formal logic of a favored structural system has
been allowed to influence, if not totally
determine, the overall form of the buildings into
which the age has poured its architectural
creativity. In the periods in which this mood has
prevailed, the forms that have been adopted
have been logical consequences of the structural
armatures of buildings. The category
ornamentation of structure, in which the
building consists of little more than a visible
structural armature adjusted in fairly minor
ways for visual reasons, has been one version of
this.

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02
STRUCTURE AS ORNAMENT
 The relationship between structure and
architecture categorized here as structure as
ornament involves the manipulation of
structural elements by criteria which are
principally visual, and it is a relationship
which has been largely a twentieth-century
phenomenon. As in the category
ornamentation of structure the structure is
given visual prominence but unlike in
ornamentation of structure, the design process
is driven by visual rather than by technical
considerations. As a consequence, the
performance of these structures is often less
than ideal when judged by technical criteria.

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03
STRUCTURE AS ARCHITECTURE
 There have always been buildings which
consisted of structure and only structure.
The igloo and the tepee are examples and
such buildings have, of course, existed
throughout history and much of human
pre-history. In the world of architectural
history and criticism they are considered to
be ‘vernacular’ rather than ‘architecture’.
Occasionally, they have found their way
into the architectural discourse and where
this has occurred it has often been due to
the very large scale of the particular.

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04&05
STRUCTURE AS FORM GENERATOR
STRUCTURE ACCEPTED
 The terms structure as form generator and structure
accepted are used here to describe a relationship between
structure and architecture in which structural requirements
are allowed to influence strongly the forms of buildings
even though the structure itself is not necessarily exposed.
In this type of relationship, the configuration of elements
which is most sensible structurally is accepted and the
architecture accommodated to it. The reason why two
cases are distinguished is that the closeness of the link
between the architectural and the structural agendas is
subject to considerable variation. Sometimes it is very
positive, with the form-generating possibilities of structure
being used to contribute to an architectural style.
Alternatively, even though the overall form of a building
may have been determined largely to satisfy structural
requirements, the architectural interest may lie elsewhere.

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06
STRUCTURE IGNORED
 Since the development of the structural
technologies of steel and reinforced concrete it has
been possible to design buildings, at least to a
preliminary stage of the process, without
considering how they will be supported or
constructed. This is possible because the strength
properties of steel and reinforced concrete are such
that practically any form can be built, provided
that it is not too large and that finance is not a
limiting consideration. This freedom represents a
significant and often unacknowledged contribution
which structural technology has made to
architecture, liberating architects from the
constraints imposed by the need to support
buildings with masonry and timber.

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