Architectural Skin Form Tectonics

Building skin, as the hot topic discussed within architecture field in this century, is gradually catching people's attention. The whole process from building skin design, construction to completion contains the important thought of tectonics. Currently, the architectural form design which purely depends on artistic constitute to determine the overall architecture shape can not meet the requirement for overall project control. As a result, tectonics can cover this vacancy.Tectonics of building skin is taken as the topic for this essay. And the essay will expound the internal logic relation within the building skin tectonics through the basic constitute principle and material constitute base as well as the analysis on background relation and its effect factors. The whole essay will explain the internal logic relation between the formation of building skin form and the meaning conveyance with a lot of project cases. And it will also take advantages of the theories, like aesthetic, philosophic, constitute principle, mathematic relation and tectonics theories, to prove the tectonics process of building skin and thus become the guidance for design in the future.The whole essay is divided into 6 parts (chapters):Chapter one (preface): it is a brief introduction on the study background, studying points and the significance by analyzing the architecture reform under historic background and the current hot topics about architecture to build up the foundation for this essay with relevant theories.Chapter two (the relation between building skin, form and tectonics): this part mainly expounds the relation between building skin, form and tectonics by their definitions and connotations and definitely defines them by the constitute, categories and properties.Chapter three (the constitutive logic of building skin form): this part expounds the constitutive principle of building skin form from the two aspects of graphic composition and three-dimensional composition by the principles of mathematical logical constitute and aesthetic constitute and by analyzing on architectural shape formation affected by three-dimensional composition.Chapter four (the tectonics logic of building skin form): this part mainly expounds three aspects, the physical bases of building skin tectonics from structure, material and functional use, the effects made by these physical bases in tectonics and the final forms by the method of tectonics.Chapter five (the tectonics logic of building skin form and profile): this part is the highlight in the whole essay. It deals with the tectonics process of building skin form by objective background and subjective intent. Under the objective background, reasonable form will be presented while under the subjective intent, three progressive relations of matter, thinking and spirit will be studied.Chapter sis (the development of building skin form tectonics): under the global political and economic background and with urban development and multiple art theory as the basis, it proposes the development anticipation of building skin form tectonics in the future.