LINEAR MASSING

MASSING
MASSING IS A TERM IN ARCHITECTURE WHICH REFERS TO THE PERCEPTION OF
THE GENERAL SHAPES AND FORM AS WELL AS SIZE OF A BUILDING
• MASSING REFERS TO THE STRUCTURE IN THREE DIMENSIONS THAT IS
FORM ,NOT JUST ITS OUTLINE FROM A SINGLE PERSPECTIVE THAT IS SHAPE.
• MASSING INFLUENCES THE SENSE OF SPACE WHICH THE BUILDING
ENCLOSES, AND HELPS TO DEFINE BOTH THE INTERIOR SPACE AND THE
BETTER SHAPE OF THE BUILDING.
LINEAR MASSING

THE LINEAR ORGANISATION USUALLY CONSISTS OF REPETITIVE SPACES

WHICH ARE ALIKE IN SIZE , FORM AND FUNCTION.
IT MAY BE ALSO CONSISTS OF A SINGLE LINEAR SPACE THAT ORGANISES
ALONG ITS LENGTH A SERIES OF SPACES THAT DIFFER IN SIZE, FORM OR
FUNCTION .IN BOTH CASES, EACH SPACE ALONG THE SEQUENCE HAS AN
EXTERIOR EXPOSURE.
• SPACES THAT ARE FUNCTIONALLY OR SYMBOLICALLY IMPORTANT TO THE
ORGANISATION CAN OCCUR ANYWHERE ALONG THE LINEAR SEQUENCE AND
HAVE THERE IMPORTANCE ARTICULATED BY THEIR SIZE AND FORM.

• THEIR SIGNIFICANCE CAN ALSO BE EMPHASIZED BY THEIR LOCATION.

• AT THE END OF THE LINEAR SEQUENCE
• OFFEST FROM THE LINEAR ORGANISATION
• AT THE PIVOTAL POINTS OF A SEGMENTED LINEAR FORM

• BECAUSE OF THEIR CHARACTERISTICS LENGTH, LINEAR ORGANISATIONS

EXPRESS A DIRECTION AND SIGNIFY MOVEMENT, EXTENSION,AND GROWTH.TO
LIMIT THEIR GROWTH LINEAR ORGANISATION CAN BE TERMINATED BY A
DOMINANT SPACE OR FORM ,BY AN ELABORATE OR ARTICULATED ENTRANCE ,OR
BY MERGING WITH ANOTHER BUILDING FORM OR THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ITS SITE.
• LONG HOUSE
• LONG HOUSE WAS A BASIC HOUSE
TYPE OF PRE CONTACT NORTHERN
IROQUOIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE SUCH
AS THE HURON-WENDAT
,HAUODENOSAUNEE ,PETUNIAS AND
NEUTRAL.THE LONG HOUSE
SHELTERED A NO OF FAMILIES
RELATED THROUGH THE FEMALE LINE
.IN THE 1700S,EUROPEAN STYLE
SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES GRADUALLY
REPLACED LONG HOUSES AS PRIMARY
RESIDENCE HOWEVER LONG HOUSES
STILL FUNCTION AS IMPORTANT
FACILITIES IN WHICH SOME
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE CONDUCT
CEREMONIES POLITICAL MEETING
AND VARIOUS COMMUNITY
GATHERINGS
A long house had a long and rounded
outline , with straight sides.
The width of long houses ranged from 6 to 9
m. Men constructed long houses by driving
stuff wall posts made of wood into the
ground. Flexible wooden poles were then
attached to the top of those posts and bent to
form roof supports
Lashed together with natural materials, such
as long strips of bark or with ropes made of
bark, these horizontal poles strengthened the
frame. Wooden sheathing covered the
structure. In Huron-Wendat homes, this
sheathing was made of cedar bark; in
Haudenosaunee homes, it was elm bark.
• SLEEPING PLATFORMS RAN THE LENGTH OF THE HOUSE. THE
NUMBER OF HEARTHS DEPENDED ON THE NUMBER OF FAMILIES IN
THE HOME. OFTEN, THERE WERE ABOUT 4 TO 12 HEARTHS IN A
LONGHOUSE. THE HEARTHS WERE SPACED ABOUT 6 TO 13 M APART,
RUNNING DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE STRUCTURE. THEY WERE
OFTEN SHARED BY TWO NUCLEAR FAMILIES OF FIVE OR SIX
PERSONS. VENTS IN THE CEILING PREVENTED THE SMOKE FROM
THE HEARTHS FROM BILLOWING INSIDE THE HOME. ENTRANCES TO
THE LONGHOUSE WERE OFTEN COVERED WITH HIDE.
LONG HOUSE
TOWN CENTRE
FOR CASTROP-
RAUXEL,GERMANY
, 1965 ALVAR
AALTO