Construction And Presentation In Art Of Cantilever Space In Contemporary Architectures

Cantilevers are wildly used in contemporary architectures with increasing scale and application, playing a progressively more important role in the creation of architecture.On the basis of present researches on cantilevers, this dissertation makes an integrate elucidation of the cantilevers at home and abroad in both ancient and modern times and summarizes the evolution process, which can be supported by five cases. The essence of cantilever space is concluded based on the definition of mechanics principles and the basic concept of cantilevers. This thesis also makes an analysis on spatial attributes which bestow distinctive and variant structures and functions to cantilever space, and gives an elaboration on the its construction and art. This dissertation sorts out the constructive methods and deduces the selections of materials, constructions and connections of the cantilever at first. Next it makes an elaboration of the presentation in art of cantilever and induces the aesthetic effects of the cantilever in five aspects. Then it makes a further explanation of the detail components and presentation in art of cantilevers, and their impacts on human psychology. Finally five typical cases are demonstrated and analyzed both on the construction and on the presentation in art.