Study On The Synergy Of Structural Art And Architectural Creation

The poor knowledge of the structural technology and theories, resulting from long-term speciality differentiation, leads to architecture professionals'loss of standpoints and references for speculative philosophy about the current non-rational structure phenomenons. In addition, structures are reduced to pure technical roles with their artistic pontemcial undeveloped, because of the absence of efficient cooperation between architecture and structure. Therefore, the backward situation of structural technical application and cooperation between the two specialties constitutes unprecedented challenges and predicament of architectural practice in China on its way to the international stage. Accordingly, in order to give out theoretic references for speculating and estimating structural phenomenons and its essence, and provide guidance for current and future architectural practice, how to construct scientific creation concepts and theories of synergy of architecture and structure specialty becomes the key questions to which the dissertation tries to give answers.The dissertation is based on the theory of System Science, defining structure as a sub-system of architecture system in a new research perspective, then providing theoretical basis for the analysis of the synergetic relationship between structural art and architecture. With systematic methods, the synergetic relationship between structural art and architecture is established and demonstrated, from which the synergetic rules and enlightening significance are concluded. On the basis of previous analysis, the concept of synergetic creation of structural art and architectural design is put forward in a view of inter-disciplines, with its epistemological theoretical construction including practical significance, ideal targets, connotation, synergetic creation contents and methods etc. Finally, through crossed binding of creation contents and methods, the research framework of methodology is set up, and the practical synergy of structural art and architectural design is expected to be achieved in more extensive aspects and at deeper levels.The dissertation is divided into the following parts:Part one: Question and subject. Starting with the common problems in the recent architectural creation of large-scale public buildings, large-scale public buildings as the main research objects are determined in the first chapter. After an overview of the existing research and writing, the chapter defines the research subject as the study on the synergy of structural art and architecture with viewpoints of System Science and inter-disciplines . It also introduces the purpose, significance, method, and structure of the dissertation. Part two: Theoretical analysis. Chapter 2 starts with the core ideas of structural art and its particularity sum up and annotated; then based on systems science, the synergetic relationship between structural art and architecture is established and demonstrated by theoretical and empirical analysis, from which the synergetic rules and enlightening significance are concluded.Part three: Theoretical Construction. Based on previous analysis, the concept of synergetic creation of structural art and architectural design is proposed in chapter 3, with its epistemological theoretical construction including practical significance, ideal targets, connotation and contents and so on. Subsequently, the synergetic creation contents are determined by the leading role of architectural design, according to its universal contents and steps. Meanwhile, based on the inner relationship of structural systems, operation of the relation between force and form and operation of relation between force and pattern are proposed and determined as the basic synergetic creation methods with a view to the forms dynamics of structural art.Part four: Methods application. Within the three parts of synergetic creation contents which include the synergy of structural art and fitting-space design , the synergy of structural art and visual space design and the synergy of structural art and architectural shape design , Specific and actually applicable methods of structural operation are set forth and studied with a view to structural forms and patterns, so as to fulfill the synergetic idea with architectural design.Part five: Conclusions and prospects: The concluding chapter summarizes the results of the research, points out the inevitable inadequacies, and proposes possible advanced topics for future research.