collision of forms in architecture

1. COLLISION OF
FORMS IN
ARCHITECTURE
Theory of
Architecture 2

2. When two forms differing in geometry or orientation collide and
interpenetrate each other’s boundaries , each will complete for
visual supremacy and dominance.
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The two forms can subvert their individual
identities and merge to create a new
composite form.
One of the two form can receive the other
totally within its volume.

3. The two forms can retain their
individual identities and share
the interlocking portion of their
volumes.
The two forms can separate and be linked by a third
element that recalls the geometry of one of the original
forms.

4. Jomo Kenyatta international
Airport, Nairobi Kenya
To accommodate or accentuate
the different requirement of
interior space.

5. Parliamentary buildings in Canberra,
Australia

6. Statue of Liberty, New York
To express the functional or symbolic importance of form or space
within its context.

7. Louvre Museum, Paris, France
To express
the
functional
or symbolic
importance
of form or
space
within its
context.

8. Taliesin West, near Scottsdale, Arizona,
1938–59, Frank Lloyd Wright
To acknowledge an already existing path of
movement through a building site.

9. St. Mark’s Tower, Project, New
York City, 1929, Frank Lloyd
Wright

10. Lister County Courthouse, olvesborg,
Sweden, 1917–21, Gunnar Asplund
To reinforce a local symmetry in the
building form.

11. House III for Robert Miller, Lakeville,
Connecticut, 1971, Design Development
Drawings, Peter Eisenma