COLLISION OF FORMS IN

ARCHITECTURE

Theory of Architecture 2

When two forms differing in geometry or orientation collide and interpenetrate each other’s boundaries , each will complete for visual supremacy and dominance.

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The two forms can subvert their individual identities and merge to create a new composite form.

One of the two form can receive the other totally within its volume.

The two forms can retain their individual identities and share the interlocking portion of their volumes.

The two forms can separate and be linked by a third element that recalls the geometry of one of the original forms.

Jomo Kenyatta international Airport, Nairobi Kenya

To accommodate or accentuate the different requirement of interior space.

Parliamentary buildings in Canberra, Australia

Statue of Liberty, New York

To express the functional or symbolic importance of form or space within its context.

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

To express the functional or symbolic importance of form or space within its context.

Taliesin West, near Scottsdale, Arizona, 1938–59, Frank Lloyd Wright

To acknowledge an already existing path of movement through a building site.

St. Mark’s Tower, Project, New York City, 1929, Frank Lloyd Wright

Lister County Courthouse, olvesborg, Sweden, 1917–21, Gunnar Asplund

To reinforce a local symmetry in the building form.

House III for Robert Miller, Lakeville, Connecticut, 1971, Design Development Drawings, Peter Eisenma