The Research On The Early Architectural Concepts Of Wiel Arets

The Dutch modern architecture has been in the leading position in the world. Inrecent decades, the research on urban and architecture by the Dutch architects of newgeneration has aroused strong reactions worldwide. Wiel Arets is one of the Dutcharchitects, however his cognition method and manner are different from the mostmainstream. He ask for the combine of architectures and urban environment inurbanism architecture field, and meanwhile keep the possibility of flexible changes.The form of his work shows the qualities of simpleness, reason, modesty and cold.What’s Arets’ strategy with the relationship between architecture and urban ismaking buildings hidden and disappeared in the environment, and maintaining theability of internal system adapted to alteration. Through an unusual organizationmethod which inner spaces of building organize the activities happened inside, Hisarchitectures establish an antagonistic relationship with city in a strong form differentfrom urban environment, at the same time thaw the antagonistic relation byinteracting with space in the translucent disappearance. As to the specific architecturalstrategy, he constitutes new connotation of the “skin” concept in which architectureskin has thickness. He uses the rational geometrical forms, concerns the expressionand construction technology of unique attributes of material, and organize architecturespaces in a narrative way of films As one of the important figures in the modernarchitecture, Arets doesn’t get much attention which he deserved. This paper attemptsto discuss the emerge of his idea from background of the architect, and explore hisurbanism architecture and its expression in the specific works. On the one hand, Ihope to represent the systematical forming process of the architect’s idea and designworks, on the other I’d like to promote a new approach to recognize architecturedesign by studying his idea and works.