Siteless : 1001 building forms /
Blanciak, François,
Siteless : 1001 building forms / François Blanciak. - xi, 114 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Hong Kong -- New York -- Copenhagen -- Los Angeles -- Tokyo -- Scale Test. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6.
"The 1001 building forms in Siteless include structural parasites, chain-link towers, ball-bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing - and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. Siteless presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from." "The forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, Blanciak takes one of the forms and performs a "scale test," showing what happens when one of these fantastic ideas is subjected to the actual constraints of a site in central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions."--BOOK JACKET.
9780262026307
2007015858
Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.
Form (Aesthetics)
NA2760 / .B52 2008
721
Siteless : 1001 building forms / François Blanciak. - xi, 114 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Hong Kong -- New York -- Copenhagen -- Los Angeles -- Tokyo -- Scale Test. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6.
"The 1001 building forms in Siteless include structural parasites, chain-link towers, ball-bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing - and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. Siteless presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from." "The forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, Blanciak takes one of the forms and performs a "scale test," showing what happens when one of these fantastic ideas is subjected to the actual constraints of a site in central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions."--BOOK JACKET.
9780262026307
2007015858
Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.
Form (Aesthetics)
NA2760 / .B52 2008
721