The Art Rhythmic In Surface Of Architecture

The word "rhythm",as often used in the professional field of music, refers to the movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions. Therefore, it is novel to use it in the research of Architectural Skin Design. Skin is the carrier of architectural appearance and architectural sensory, it is also the major source of visual sense when looking at a building or a group of architectures. Further more, it is a major composition of the beauty of modern cities. The beauty of rythem is usually formed by the different forms of elements such as shape, colour, lightness, texture, etc. in order to manifeste the artistic expression and improve the artistic atmosphere of the contemporary space. The rhythem it implicates and the study of the beauty of forms presented with special language can satisfy people’s higher aesthetic need for archetectual artistic design. Different period in the history of archetecture has different architectural styles, which can be explained by the different achetectural skin designs of every period and therefore, brings completely different artistic feelings to the audience. This thesis chooses the architectural style of "Jiageng Style" buildings at Xiamen University as the project of research, combining the study of the architectural skin design and the foundamental research of rhythm, trys to explore the relationship between classic archetectual skin design and rythem aesthetics through looking for the historical cause, methodology and principle of the visual "rhythm" of architectural skin in the hope that it can provide something valuable to today’s archetechtural design.