Architectural and Urban Subsymmetries

TRAMA

This book focuses on symmetries in the analysis and synthesis of architectural designs. Crucial in the history of architecture, principles of symmetry provided the means to achieve balance and harmony of spatial composition in architecture. Less well known is the importance of symmetry principles in the analysis of the distinct constituents in a contemporary architectural design which may, at first glance, appear disorganized or even random. The revelation of different hierarchical levels wherein various types of symmetry or subsymmetry are superimposed provides a key for deciphering the underlying structure of spatial logic. The interaction between local and global subsymmetries is of particular interest. Operating with symmetry concepts in this manner offers architects, designers and students an explicit method for understanding the symmetrical logics of sophisticated designs and gaining insights into new designs.This book has two complementary objectives: to explore the fundamental principles of architectural composition founded on the algebraic structure of symmetry groups in mathematics and to apply the principles in the analysis and synthesis of architectural and urban designs. By viewing and decomposing architectural and urban designs in this manner, the hidden spatial logic and underlying order in a design become transparent.

SOMMARIO

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsForeword                                                                                                      PrefacePart I: Fundamentals of subsymmetriesChapter 1. Spatial transformations of shapes1.1 Isometries of a plane1.2 Similarity transformations1.3 Groups and symmetries1.4 Regular polygons and multiplication table1.5 SubgroupsChapter 2. Plane symmetry groups2.1 Cyclic and dihedral groups2.2 Seven frieze groups2.3 Seventeen wallpaper groupsChapter 3. Cayley diagrams3.1 Cayley diagrams of the point groups3.2 Cayley diagrams of the frieze groups3.3 Cayley diagrams of the wallpaper groupsChapter 4. Subshapes and subsymmetries4.1 Subsymmetries of regular polygons4.2 Lattices of the subsymmetries of the frieze groups4.3 Lattices of the subsymmetries of the wallpaper groupsPart II: Decomposition and Recomposition of Architecture and Urban DesignsChapter 5. Subsymmetries of the point groups in architectural designs5.1 Architecture and urban designs in antiquity5.2 Modern examples5.2.1 Frank Lloyd Wright’s use of mirrored and rotational symmetry5.2.2 Rudolph Michael Schindler’s unique elaborations of subsymmetries5.2.3 Gregory Ain’s Mar Vista Track Project5.2.4 Subsymmetries of two civic works by modern architects5.2.5 Constructing new designs with subsymmetries of the point groupsChapter 6. Subsymmetries of the frieze groups in architectural designs6.1 Gregory Ain’s “paired and mirrored” method6.2 Superimposed floor plans and stacked massing6.3 Façade manifestations6.4 Sectional wall layersChapter 7. Subsymmetries of the wallpaper groups in architecture and urban designs7.1 Culturally embedded building facades and screens7.2 Incremental housing designs7.2.1 Charles Correa’s clustering method7.2.2. James Stiring’s incremental clustering and further experiments7.3 High-rise housing projects7.3.1 Le Corbusier’s influences and after7.3.2 Two mega housing and further design experiments7.4 Urban layouts based on the wallpaper subsymmetries7.4.1 Expansion to urban planning7.4.2 Experimental urban layoutsConclusionBibliography

AUTORE

Jin-Ho Park teaches architectural design, formal theories, and history as a professor in the Department of Architecture at Inha University, Korea. Prior to joining Inha University, he taught in the School of Architecture at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA as an associate professor with tenure. He earned his Ph.D. in architecture from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He served as corresponding editor of the Nexus Network Journal and is now a contributing editor Open House International (Emerald Publishing). His research has been published in various referred journals, nationally and internationally. His book publications include Designing the Ecocity-in-the-Sky (Images Publishing 2014) and Graft in Architecture: Recreating Spaces (Images Publishing 2013).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783031089480
• Collana: Mathematics and the Built Environment
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 514 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XIV, 266 p. 263 illus., 22 illus. in color.
• Pagine Arabe: 266
• Pagine Romane: xiv