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6 - PERCEPTION OF SHAPES
Counting the number of bars using the squares
at the front, you'll find that there are 8 bars in
total. Counting from the end of the bars, you'll
get 7. According to the puzzle's creators, how
many complete bars are actually there in the
LUMINOUS DENSITY - This is what the eyes figure?
receive when light is reflected from a surface
(floors, walls, furniture).
(If the differences between the L_______
______Y within view are too great,
the iris muscle is strained due to constant
adjustment, thus causing eye fatigue)
UNIFIED WHOLE - The Gestalt Principles are a Unaccented Rhythm - If equally spaced
set of laws arising from 1920s’ psychology, windows are introduced on the unbroken wall,
describing how humans typically see objects by then regular repetition is present, what do you
grouping similar elements, recognizing patterns call this type of rhythm?
and simplifying complex images.
"Gestalt" is German word for "_______ _____". The Modulor - In 1942, Le Corbusier began his
study and published "__________" - a
Massing - A unified composition of two- Harmonious Measure to the human scale
dimensional shapes, or three-dimensional universally applicable to architecture and
volumes, especially one that has, or gives the mechanics.
impression, of weight, density, and bulk.
Grey - A color that feels flat and lifeless, yet it
Chimney Effect (Stack Effect) - The tendency of provides enormous support to the other hues.
air or gas in a shaft or other vertical space to
rise when heated, creating a draft that draws in Competition - When elements compete with
cooler air/gas from below. each other for place of importance, there is a
__________. This causes 'duality' or the
Dimensional Transformation - A form can be presence of two strong conflicting personalities
transformed by altering one or more of its or masses resulting in discord and redundancy.
dimensions and still retain its family identity.
What type of transformation is this? Grid Form - What type of form composition is
present in the Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho
Hierarchy - The articulation of the importance Kurokawa.
or significance of a form or space by its size,
shape, or placement relative to the other forms Personal Character - In architecture, this type of
and spaces of the organization. character bears a certain relation to the same
attribute of an individual. It is found that the
Five Points of Architecture - It is an element of personality plays an important part
architectural manifesto by the Swiss-French in the revealing character of both with man and
architect. A set of principles for modern with architecture.
buildings.
Visual Inertia - The degree of concentration and
Golden Section - The division of a line so that stability of a form. It depends on its geometry as
the whole is the greater part as that part is the well as its orientation relative to the ground
smaller part. For example, 1:1/2, a proportion plane and our line of sight.
which is considered to be particularly pleasing
to the eye. Platonic Solids - The primary shapes can be
extended or rotated to generate volumes whose
Analogous Color Scheme - It uses colors that forms are distinct, regular, and easily
are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. recognizable. These forms are referred to as the
One color is used as a dominant color while __________.
others are used to enrich the scheme.
Centralized Organization - What type of spatial
organization is shown in the Villa Capra (The Plane - A primary element of form that has the
Rotunda) at Vicenza, Italy, by Andrea Palladio? properties of length, width, shape, surface,
orientation, and position.
Personal Character - It bears a certain relation
to the same attribute to the life of an individual. Functional Character - A type of character that
results directly from the purpose of use of the
Texture - Refers to the quality of surface building.
treatment associated with materials.
Beton Brut - Concrete textured by leaving the
Additive Color - A color produced by combining impression of the form in which it was modeled.
lights of red, yellow, and blue wavelengths.
These lights or additive primaries contain all the Face-to-face Contact - This type of relationship
wavelengths necessary to produce a colorless or requires that the two forms have corresponding
white light. planar surfaces which are parallel to each other.
Yellow - This color is relatively long and Adjacent Spaces - It is the most common type
stimulating. It is considered as the strongest of spatial relationship. It allows each space to be
color psychological as it perceives optimism, clearly defined and to respond, each in its own
confidence, extraversion, emotional strength, way, to specific functional or symbolic
friendliness, and creativity. requirements. It can be defined with a row of
columns, walls, or free-standing planes.
Frei Paul Otto - A Pritzker Prize awardee 2015,
German architect and structural engineer, Human Scale - The size or proportion of a
noted for his use of lightweight structures, in building element or space, or an article of
particular tensile and membrane structures, furniture, related to the structural or functional
including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in dimensions of the human body.
Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Saturation - One of the three dimensions of
Alvar Aalto - "Form is the mystery that defies colors. It is the purity or vividness of a hue, also
description, but brings people pleasure", whose called as intensity.
dictum is this?
Northeast Monsoon - What is "amihan"?
Tadao Ando - In all of his works, light is an
important controlling factor. His use of concrete Chroma - The degree by which a color differs
is impeccable, leaving its natural color and from a gray of the same lightness or brightness,
texture, and almost became his trademark corresponding to saturation of the perceived
design. color.
Euclidean Space - In geometry, a two- or three- Perceptual - It refers to sensory perception and
dimensional space in which the axioms and recognition of the physical elements by
postulates of Euclidean geometry applies. experiencing them sequentially in time;
Texture - The visual and tactile quality given to Cuadra San Cristobal, Mexico 1968 - ar. Luis
a surface by the size, arrangement and barragan
proportions of the parts is called,
Notre Dame du Haut, roncha mp, france , Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
(1950-55) - Le Corbusier (2012) - Dar Al Handasah Architects
Industrial Buildings - These are the designs that Approach and Entry - It is the entrance of the
an Architect can do except for area, building, structures, or sites (they are
classified up to 3 approaches: the frontal,
Structural System - In human building-analogies oblique, and spiral approach)
the skeletal system is referred as the
Frontal Approach - It is the kind of Approach
Digestive System - In the human-building wherein it directly leads to the entrance.
analogies the Sanitary System is referred as the
Oblique Approach - It is the kind of approach
Electrical - In the human-building analogies it is wherein it has extreme angles, it usually
considered to be the Circulatory System of the prolongs the sequence of approaching the
body/house Entry.
Shape - It is one of the Properties of form Geometric Form - These are are forms that can
wherein it is the outward form of an object be constructed using geometry, such as squares,
defined by outline. in architecture it is defined rectangles, circles, cones, cubes, and many
as a two dimensional area confined by an actual more.. these forms are commonly found in
line or implied line. It is the characteristic architecture and engineering.
outline or surface configuration of a particular
form. Shape is the principal aspect by which we Abstract - It is a technique used by artist during
identify and categorize forms. the late century to bring out the aesthetics of
the subject it is the process of taking away or
Size - It is one of the Properties of form wherein removing characteristics from something in
it is the relative extent of something; a thing's order to reduce it to a different type of
overall dimension or magnitude but in character. In Architecture, abstract, is a type of
architecture size is the physical dimensions of design explored by many modernist, a mixture
length, width, and depth of a form. While these of form that embodies the transformation of
something different and new. This can be
aligned to brutalism, modernism,
deconstructivism, and expressionist
architecture.