Exploring Architectural Form in Perspective: A Fractal Hypercube-Building

Tomás García-Salgado ()
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Tomás García-Salgado: UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Facultad de Arquitectura

Chapter Chapter 82 in Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, 2015, pp 513-524 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Form in architecture can be explored directly in three dimensions if one can manage an accurate and versatile perspective method. 2D drawings and 3D models have been used either to represent or build architecture since ancient times. These are usually made at any scale, whereas perspective cannot be scaled, it allows the truthful render of a form in proportions. Perspective mainly allows the designer to visualize a building within an imaginary space. Architects frequently use perspective when the design process almost comes to an end, to get an idea of how a building could be seen in reality. However the customary use of 2D projections along the design process compels designers to visualize forms fragmentarily. On the contrary, the architectonic example presented here was not based in 2D projections nor a preconceived form, it was rather the result of exploring form directly in perspective, of using mathematics to visualize form beyond 2D.

Keywords: Perspective Plane; Module Unit; Outer Shape; Central Vertical Line; Imaginary Space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00143-2_35

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