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Geometry in Architecture 111

The document summarizes key geometric concepts used in two houses designed by Tadao Ando: 1) The Koshino House features spaces connected by tunnels that allow light to sweep through walls. Interior rooms have identical shapes but different orientations in a symmetrical floor plan and elevation. 2) The 4x4 House uses basic cube and square shapes organized on a grid defined by two vertical datum lines. It follows a 3x1x3 proportional scale and features symmetry in circulation and openings that allow light.

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Geometry in Architecture 111

The document summarizes key geometric concepts used in two houses designed by Tadao Ando: 1) The Koshino House features spaces connected by tunnels that allow light to sweep through walls. Interior rooms have identical shapes but different orientations in a symmetrical floor plan and elevation. 2) The 4x4 House uses basic cube and square shapes organized on a grid defined by two vertical datum lines. It follows a 3x1x3 proportional scale and features symmetry in circulation and openings that allow light.

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GEOMETRY IN ARCHITECTURE

AROOJ ANJUM
18094795-009
ARCHITECTURE
2ND YEAR
PROJECT:

KOSHINO HOUSE
BY
TADAO ANDO
PROMINENT
USE OF BASIC
SHAPES
TRANSFORMATION
: SUBTRACTION
LIGHT- SUBTRACTION OF
FORMS

Forms have been subtracted


in such a way to make tunnels
, allowing light to sweep
through walls and enter in.
COMPOSITION OF SPACE
• Width of the passages is identical
• Shapes of interior rooms are same
but different orientation.
SYMMETRY: IN FLOOR PLAN SYMMETRY: IN ELEVATION
GRID ORGANIZATION OF DATUM
• Makes a grid, and each one rectangle
are approximatelt 2-3 for each room.
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
SPACES WITHIN A SPACE ADJACENT SPACES
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
SPACES LINKED BY A COMMON
SPACE INTERLOCKING SPACES
ORGANIZATION
• Linear organization
• Linear path configuration
CIRCULATION

• Starts from the top level.


• Directional/ forward.
• Unusual entrance.
• Allowing visitor to see

entire plan at one glance.


PLANES OVERHEAD PLANE
PROJECT:

4x4 HOUSE
BY
TADAO ANDO
USE OF BASIC SHAPES :
Square, used as the basic form originator.
Cube, making it a whole volume.
GRID IN FORMAL AND PLANAR ORGANIZATION
Two implied lines that run vertically down the building create the datum in which the grid of the building is
based off.
SYMMETRY AND CIRCULATION
PROPORTION AND SCALE
Every portion is disposed to unit
it whole that may thereby escape from its incompleteness
Follows 3x1x3 proportion scale
OPENINGS AND LIGHT
THANKYOU.

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