Title: The Role of Structure in Creating Architectural Space
Headings: The Role of Structure in Creating Architectural Space
The Role of Structure in Creating Architectural Space
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Content: The architects consider “high-tech” as the Great achievement of the modernity and the most important factor in the development of twentieth century. According to them the extract and physical characteristics of each era has embodied in the architecture of that period. For example, Greek temples with their perfect fit with the geometric regularities are the elaboration of the ancient Greeks perfectionist mentality. Similarly, modern buildings should represent the mental and technical essence of the present age of technology. Therefore the “high-tech” architecture takes origin from the idea of modern architecture. However, there are some differences between them and as we know there are no traces of the simplicity on the modern architecture in the “high-tech” architecture. Another difference is that for example if Modern architects show designs tools of a car, the “high-tech” architect represents the inside of the cabin and its components. The thinking and design principles of this style may be summarized in the following ten factors (Ghobadian, 2010)
Being optimistic about the progress of science and technology
Representing technology as the extract and achievement of the new era,
Representing building process,
transparence, layering and displaying the movement of the building,
Representing the structure and components of the building facade and the plan,
Using simple and bright colors,
Structure and construction as the design,
Applying light, tensile elements,
Separating the service provider parts from the parts that need to be serviced,
Roof design as the fifth façade (Ghobadian ,2010)
Skyscrapers have a special place in the “high-tech” architecture. Structurally building high buildings has two difficulties: Providing vertical elevators.