The shape of the cube and its relationship with architecture or the design is so familiar that it appears everywhere, although we do not fall into it until we pay special attention.
Le Corbusier already told us … «Our eyes are made to see the forms under the light: the shadows and the clear reveal the shapes. Cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms that light reveals well; their image is clear and tangible, without ambiguity. For this reason they are beautiful forms, the most beautiful»
The simple geometric shapes in the architecture have always occupied a special place due to the unique combination of features such as simplicity, rationality and creativity. The cube represents one of those simple architectural forms but at the same time very rich and bright.
Using cubic shapes in architecture serves to a number of functions, from ensuring the durability of the structure or maximum efficiency in the use of space, to purely aesthetic functions, such as present the appearance of the building in a harmonious way or harmonize forcefully with its environment.
An architect of French origin Yannick Martin made a series of illustrations about the most famous houses in the History of Architecture placed inside a cube, observed that the decisions made by architects in relation to the proportions of their houses and the elements that define them had a very close relationship with the proportions of the cubes .
Martin, posed the question…. Does this relationship something to see in which houses are seen by the majority of professionals as architecturally unique talking?
But we can no longer only talk about the cube as an element unitary. We must delve into modular architecture to understand the theory of polycubes , a branch of mathematics that deals with studying the behavior of cubic modular units , such that joined by their faces they configure shapes in space three-dimensional.
Although the basic module is a cube, the combination of several cubes allows to obtain a great variety of modules that maintain orthogonality between their faces and, within the simplicity of its shapes, provide volumetric richness and modularity, establishing correspondences with forms of use architecture that we can find in many buildings or projects that dazzle.
The project was presented at an architecture biennial Spine is a installation interactive based on twenty bright cubes and a composition atmospheric sound .
In this case, cubes were presented that assimilated the movement of sea waves. The movements of the cubes, as well as the sound composition reacted to the visitors from space who were totally trapped in a unique and strange atmosphere.
It must be recognized that throughout the evolution in construction of houses and houses, a multitude of designers, designers or architects have used the shape of the cube and the square to express your projects, there are many examples and very good, but if we approach the present, we We found two projects that fascinate and are winners of multitude of awards.
The urban project proposes that instead of of proposing a pre-designed urban fabric, focuses on a collective pattern for an individual interpretation: a matrix of gardens structures the area, and can be built on around a square garden, not inside .
Various actors (from large companies to individuals) can colonize these ‘extrovert plots’, fostering the diversity of building scales and urban relations.
Once the support is established, the development of the project urban planner has inquired into the relationships that these supports can produce, redefining the configuration of space free based on cubes. Bet on a space collective reprogrammable in time and with the capacity of appropriation .
The result is a porous fabric, not only in terms of low environmental impact, but flexibility in what is built and in continuous process: a liquid that adapts to the needs changing society.
We can also approach the article we make about… What is Cohousing? A sustainable model and efficient before the individualism of society)
Definitely the architecture surprises and this time with a risky but undoubtedly brilliant project.
From the team of Kežmarské Hut the signing of architects of Atelier 8000 propose a new concept for a house intended for a high-quality shelter mountain, a cube-shaped lodge based entirely on a bioclimatic and sustainable project for adventurers of high mountain.
A shelter away from the typical wooden house that everyone imagines when thinking about this type of constructions.
In short, the primary shape of the cube is and will be used as a source of inspiration for many great designers, the square shape is in fashion and we can confirms from the article… «Facades of houses spectacular»
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