ORDER & DISORDER

ASAS-ASAS PERANCANGAN ARSITEKTUR

Semester Genap 2018/2019
4 Maret 2019
PRODI ARSITEKTUR UNIVERSITAS KRISTEN DUTA WACANA
ORDER or DISORDER ?
INEVITABLE ORDER
Order in building
 We have to live ‘against nature’ and
therefore we build by ordering.
 The world is more beautiful since it has been
explored (Hellpach)
 To build we must use fairly simple geometry.
It is first of all a necessity for design and
above all for building

The sense of order

 Regularity is necessary to man
 The more complex the environment, the more
we need to simplify and summarize to
understand and get our bearings
 Man has an innate sense of order
Superimposed a learning process varying
according to the environment and culture,
which helps us to orientate ourselves
FACTORS OF COHERENCE
Repetition & similarity

Group of triangles, group of

circles & groups of triangles &
circles The plan suggests a relative equivalence of the
façade module

Group of hatched squares:

group of plain square

Similarity of details
 Group of large
elements & group of
small elements

The waterfront of the harbor Hydra, owing topography, is not

formed only by the houses in the first row.
By their scale, they form a sub-group apart, without breaking up
the urban fabric

Hydra Port, Greece

Proximity

Dissimilarity is
counteracted by proximity

Two groups of three windows, not just large and

small windows.
Similarity has become less powerful than proximity,
common white background and symmetry
Common enclosure & common ground

Group of figures on a Group of horizontal figures Group of horizontal figures

‘carpet’ and a group of and a group of oblique which belong to the ‘street’
exterior figures figures and a group of other figures

Group of figures inside an

enclosure figure
overlapping enclosure and
figure outside
Homogeneity of the whole town in front
of the mountain backdrop
Interaction of factors

Coordinate oriented

Hydra Port, Greece

FROM ORDER TO CHAOS 38

Texture – series – hierarchy – contrast – complexity

(Larry Mitnick)
Homogeneity & Texture 39

Skyros, Greece
HOMOGENEITY AND TEXTURE
HOMOGENITY AND TEXTURE
HOMOGENEITY AND TEXTURE
Coordinate texture: Hydra – Greece
Fragmentary texture: Pully – Swiss
Alignments & Series 41

Coordination of series, Telč, Czechoslovakia

Telč, Czechoslovakia
ALIGNMENTS AND SERIES

Telč, Czechoslovakia
ALIGNMENTS AND SERIES
ALIGNMENTS
AND
SERIES
ALIGNMENTS
AND
SERIES
ALIGNMENTS
AND
SERIES
 Gradation

Southern Temple of Thebes

Le Corbusier, The Modulor,

definitive program, 1950 Gradation of glazing
Le Corbusier, Convent of La Tourette
 Hierarchy

Hierarchy of the centre The mere rotation of a

building in relation to others at
once introduces a hierarchy
Le Corbusier, Carpenter Centre,
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1961 – 1964

Study of buildings with centralized plans

Leonardo da Vinci
Contrast

Curved - straight
Le Corbusier, headquarters of the
Association of Spinners, plan of
level 4, Ahmedabad, 1954
1942 - 1960

Concave-convex
Francesco Borromini, Sant’ Ivo
della Sapienza, Rome
1942 - 1960
CONTRAST
CONTRAST
CONTRAST
 Complexity

Michelangelo
façade for the funerary chapel of San
Lorenzo in Florence, 1516 - 1534
 Spatial Complexity
Richard Meier, High Museum, Atlanta
Texas, 1983
COMPLEXITY
COMPLEXITY
COMPLEXITY
COMPLEXITY
 Contradiction

Order is endangered when the deviations

(from a norm or a rule) are strong enough to
upset the pattern of the whole (Arnheim)
Two Drawings – Dieter Schaal
Pillar or column: square or round?
Les Salines de Chaux, house of the director,
Claudie Nicolas Ledoux
Robert Venturi & John Rauch
Trubeck House, Nantucket, Massachusetts,
1970
Chaos 49
Order & Chaos
Order & Chaos
CHAOS
CHAOS
CHAOS
REGULARITY & IRREGULARITY 51

Simplicity
 not banality, is a quality to which we
aspire just as much in plan as in
space
 In architecture & urban design is only
obtained by an elegant solution

Olympia, lid of sarcophagus

Fragmentary, but legible none the less,
regularity resists the ravages of time
Casa Brutale – Faqra Mountain, Beirut, Lebanon
OPA [Open Platform for Architecture/ Laertis-Antonios
Ando Vassiliou]
Regularity 52
 omnipresent
 the measure of the rhythm is not necessarily uniform; it can be ordered by
groupings into larger units
 does not need to be based on a repetition of absolutely identical elements, or
on a perfectly geometric grid in order to be monotonous
 necessary for orientation in town and even in universe and time

Façade the Zaherl-Haus (Josef Plecnik, Vienna 1903 – 1905)

Left: repetitive rhythm of the windows
Right: the spacing is altered & grouped
 Interruption or variation of a rhythm, the change of orientation of a grid must
appear a necessity, an event responding to the site and/or the brief, or even a
major articulation among elements of construction

Royal Crescent, Bath 1767

The multitude which cannot be reduced to unity is confusion; unity which
is not dependent on multitude is tyranny (Blaise Pascal in Pensées)
Exception to the rule

Priene, colonial town of Greek

antiquity on the Black Sea
Regular fabric interrupted by public spaces
& buildings

The exception may refer to

topographical irregularities,
historical remains, the construction
& the form of the object itself
Reference:

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Pierre von Meiss
 TUGAS
ORDER-DISORDER
• identifikasi order & faktor-faktor koherence pada
karya arsitektur
• studi kasus order & chaos, regularity & irregularity
pada karya arsitektur
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