Louis Sullivan: Form Follows
Function (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051128194123.htm)
Le Corbusier: Five Points of
Architecture (http://anibal.gyte.edu.tr/hebe/AblDrive/73746022/w/Storage/987_2011_1_310_73746022/Downloads/5-points-of-arch.pdf)
Three News Article
In recent years, modern architecture has illustrated an avant-garde full of crazy ideas. However, these designs
lack thoughts of purpose, hence the developed architectural theory is, A pragmatic
utopian architecture that takes on the creation of socially, economically and
environmentally perfect places as a practical objective.
There are two architectural structures
being created, the school and the bridge. Both would be designed with a similar
concept that if form follows
function, then you should be able to look at a building and have a good idea
about what goes on inside. This is
significant as it allows people to make sense of a
place and help people figure out where they are. However, if this
concept is not developed it would be like buildings of well-organized corporate
consultants that build predictable and boring boxes of high standard.
Two of Le Corbusier’s Five points of architecture are:
(1)
the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground
(2)
the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from
the walls subdividing the space
Although suspending elements mid-air
may be depicted as detached from reality that failing to become something other than
eccentric curiosities, placing areas on a higher level, allows for the ground floor being almost entirely open. The bridge
acts as the ground floor and with open space allows its purpose to be demonstrated
which is to account for main circulation flow.
Furthermore, through the suspension
of elements in the air presenting mysticism of computer
visualisations alongside the concept of form
following of the other elements, a small but very fertile overlap
between the two creates a distinctive theory.
