Homework 2

1. Describe interaction and stability in three-d form. What is the 'three plane rule?' 
 
    Planes can interact with each other through folding, an edge of one plane can abut another, and interpenetration, meaning the planes can pass through the other.

Example of paper folding: By Krystyna and Wojtek Burczyk
(b.1959 and 1960, Polish)

 

Maik Perfahl and Wolfgang List, Donkey and Friends

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    Three Plane Rule- a stable structure that is created when any three planes meet in such a way that each plane interacts with each other.

 

2. What is an environmental plane and planar structure? 

       The environmental plane consists of the ground plane, that which the planes lean against such as tabletops, walls, floors, ceilings, the surface of the earth, shelves, etc. The planar structure is the object that is created with planes and the environmental plane is where the planar object finds itself in.

Buckminster Fuller, hollywood hills dome

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3. Define an architectonic form. 
   
 An architectonic form consists of:

• Geometric shapes and curvilinear forms
• Emphasis on vertical and horizontal orientation

buckminster fuller

• Contrast between open and closed spaces but maintain transitions between the two. 

 

4. How can a reflective surface effect the transition of space?
      
      A reflective surface like mirrors create the illusion of space within a closed surface, therefore, creating a transition into open space from a closed space.



5. How can planes define volume?

      Planes become splices of a three dimensional shape. Planes are like two dimensional shapes that when aligned form a three dimensional shape therefore creating volume.

Zaha Hadid