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What is a building envelope?
The building envelope is the physical separator between the interior and the exterior.
It was not always been like that….
It was Le Corbusier that helped us liberate the envelope from the internal structure with his “Dominos houses”.
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Domino House (1914–1915) is an open floor plan structures , supported by reinforced concrete columns meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls and the physical expression of the building envelope, is subject to the interpretation of Its Architect.
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This is an old sketch of mine, showing contemporary expressions to Le Corbusier’s “Dominos houses”.
Eliinbar’s Sketches, contemporary expressions to Le Corbusier’s “Dominos houses”.
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Since Le Corbusier…. architects made number of measures for total separation between the building envelope and its internal structure.
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In this post I will show three leading architects taking advantage of the evolution that accorded in building envelopes,
Each one of them expresses in his building ,his own -“Envelopes Design Strategy”
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Zaha Hadid’s -“Shell Structures envelopes”
From eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2011 , Zaha Hadid’s Inspiration Sources
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Zaha Hadid Architect
mixed-use building Budapest,Hungary
March 2007
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Zaha Hadid is inspired by the Budapest’s rich architectural heritage and Thin-shell structures
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Frank Gehry’s -“Envelopes Design Strategy”
From eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2011 Learning from Frank Gehry
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Frank GehryArchitect
Disney Concert Hall typical Floor Plan
Los Angeles California 1987-2003
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Frank Gehry Architect
Disney Concert Hall
Thanks Martin for this picture ,of the built structure
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From Eliinbar’s sketches 2011 , Learning from Frank Gehry
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What did I learn from Frank Gehry’s -“Envelopes Design Strategy”?
Gehry is very aware to the “needs” of the building,like once said Le Corbusier “a house is a machine for living”.
He designs buildings with effective floor plans
He does not give up his desire for creativity and uniqueness.
Gehry develops his “Envelopes Design Strategy and uses his architect skills to realize his architectural vision…”sculptural buildings”
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Thom Mayne founder of Los Angeles firm Morphosis – “screen sculptural envelopes”
From eliinbar’s sketchbook 2012 Morphosis’s Floor plan strategy
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Typical floor plan of the Sciences Building of Cooper Union College in New York designed by the Morphosis firm
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Thom Mayne founder of Los Angeles firm Morphosis
Sciences Building of Cooper Union college
in New York. 2009
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From eliinbar’s sketchbook 2012 Morphosis’s Floor plan strategy
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So Morphosis ”floor plan strategy” is now clear….
1. Simple cube-shaped building with an Interior core designed by the principles of the “sponge concept” (you are invited to sea my post about Steven Holl’s “sponge concept”).
2. And a sculptural façade created by a steel screen fluctuates in its offset from the cube. (You are invited to sea my post about the three dimensional “Mashrabiya Envelopes” and some other of my relevant posts listed at the end).
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I think we can summarize this post with the following statement:
“The most dominant characteristic of contemporary architecture, is liberating the envelope from its internal building ”
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You are invited to visit my relevant posts:
Conscious Inspiration Facades 2 https://archidialog.com/2011/03/08/conscious-inspiration-facades-2/
The”Mashrabiya Envelopes” – Conscious Inspiration https://archidialog.com/2011/03/17/the%e2%80%9dmashrabiya-envelopes%e2%80%9d-conscioous-inspiration/
Conscious Inspiration “Facades” https://archidialog.com/2011/02/22/conscious-inspiration-facades/
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