The Research On The Diversity Of Surface Of Contemporary Architecture

As the development of technology and social concept,a variety kinds of form of building surface has appeard.Building surface is regarded as an organic part of building instead of being a surface layer.For a long time,our thoughts are limited by the criteria of modernism era-"Form follows function" or "Less is more".We are laying so much stress on the rationality of building and ignored the importance of individuality that building surface is being marginalized gradually.We can figure out from recent building practices that original thinking is breaking down and various kinds of building surface emerges in endlessly.The diversity of building surface is challenging people's vision,but there is less views or theories which can gain a clear idea of these appearances.Considering the nature and the status of building surface,it's difficult to avoid shoddy imitation which may make building skin a planar and formalism thing and have no connect with the nature of architecture. Writting the paper is not for establishing some standards or principles.May be it's a meaningful thing of summarizing some rules and similarities of building skins. Understanding the nature of surface phenomena and design method can avoid some blind design.The paper contains the following aspects.The first chapter point out the problem that the condition of diversity of building surface basing on research background and purpose.The second chapter is a analysis and cognition of the problem including concept of building surface,developing process and the reason of diversity. From the third chaper to the sixth chaper,it discusses the diversity of building surface from the aspects of visual,space,structure and ecology.Many examples of argumentation are given to support the thesis. Make a reasonable induction about different characteristics of building skin,inorder to give the readers more method of operation.The seventh part is rethinking the phenomenon of diversity of building skin. Although the paper study with the methods of the skin from different angles, it do not means to limit the building skin design.The classification is to study more rational.The design of building skin is a manifestation of design integration with various factors and conditions,it can never be seen with isolated point of view.The final part concludes the whole article and discusses the advantage and crisis of building surface.lt really matters that taking advantage of building surface and avoiding formalism in the hope of reasonable design of furture architecture.