Genesis Of Architectural Forms – Inventive Design In The Virtual Age
Abstract
The digital architectural visions show that architecture is more and more influenced by virtual reality and concept of cyberspace. The primary forms in architecture differentiate according to the ways of the ideas’ expressions (intuitive hand-drawn sketches or digital images). Paper points out the similarities and differences between the initial architectural ideas of the creative process revealing in the intuitive architectural forms - hand-drawn sketches and digital forms – computer images. Primary intuitive and digital architectural forms are analyzed in the following aspects: primary ideas (concept of a man and avatar, extreme qualities and gradations, sensual and expressive ideas, notions and visions, codes of communication and info-connotations), structure (multi-layered and soft-diffused, morphological and topological, massive and light, additive and multi-programming, organic and liquid, order and higher order, motion and animation), shape (floral-like and organic, additive and multi-components, ideals and deformed shells, motion and flow-liquidness, closeness and infiniteness, disintegration and replayed cycles of growth) and context (landscape and virtual, real and abstract, cultural connotations and multi-programming, historic and soft-library decalcomania) of intuitive and digital forms.