Research In Mario Botta’s Architectural Modeling Language

This paper focused on the architectural modeling language of Mario Botta.As is known, architectural language is the main support to forming anarchitectural style, worthy of further study.Research started with such sequence: from whole to part, and through theexternal modeling to the internal space. The aim of Mario Botta’s architecturalmodeling language，found in this study, is to form a landmark, which is realizedby using specific methods: simple geometric shape with complexcharacterization, superman-scale, as well as making difference.This paper summarized a set of research material, Botta’s45representativeworks were rebuilt by classification-modeling. In this way, it is more convinentto making analysis and presentation.A three-tier system, relevant to scale, was built in this paper, throughwhich the external modeling was focused and analyzed. The external modelingof Mario Botta’s building were divided into five stages: stage ofshapes-selection in maste plan, stage of the overall modeling, stages of super"layer" depicting," layer" depicting as well as the sub " layer" depicting; Then,interior space and shape modeling was analyzed as well. As a result, the contentand features of different stages were comprehended systematically.Knowledge is obtained through the research:①. Architectural modelinglanguage should be systematical. Also it should be carried out from the overallmodeling to the details, with a clear aim.②. Architectural modeling language,which can result in the formation of styles, must show distinct feature ordifference in every stages.