Abstract
This chapter deals with perhaps the most difficult task of conceptualising 3D form AND space. First I examine the constituent parts of 3D form, and then I unfold what a person registers in sequence when entering a space. Light defines how a space is seen, by reflecting off surfaces and form. Design is about expression of identity and 3D form will play a major role in this. 3D interior form is put into three starter groups: the square, circle and triangle families. The chapter continues with illustrations of how junctions and the meeting of surfaces need close consideration and the intrusive corner concept expanded into possible solutions. The early growth of the ‘integrated’ interior is explained with illustrations, culminating with examples of ‘Freeform’ architecture and the new influence of artificial intelligence. I finally question what is the deconstructed interior as well as the disintegrated interior. Due to climate change and concern for the planet all design organisations and stakeholders should be seeking the most sustainable solutions available. The correct 3D solution should be one that maintains a healthy ecological balance that minimises risks to the planet and the use of harmful resources in their manufacture and specification.
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Kent C Bloomer and Charles W Moore, Body, Memory, and Architecture (New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1977) p. 36.
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These are the constituent overlapping shapes that symbolize the Oriental religion of Zen Buddhism.
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Santa or Hagia Sophia is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
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It was built in 1632 by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The mosque represents a condensed history of the Iranian Architecture.
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The origins of this mosque lie in the eighth century, but it burnt down and was rebuilt again in the eleventh century and went through remodelling many times. As a result it has rooms built in different architectural styles, so now the mosque represents a condensed history of Iranian Architecture.
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Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and an absence of applied decoration. It began at the turn of the twentieth century with efforts to reconcile the principles underlying architectural design with rapid technological advancement and the modernization of society.
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Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924) was an American architect and has been called the “father of skyscrapers” and “father of modernism”.
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Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856–1934) was a prominent Dutch architect.
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Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is influenced by the theory of “Deconstruction”, which is a form of semiotic analysis. It is characterized by fragmentation, an interest in manipulating a structure's surface or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which appear to distort and dislocate elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope.
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Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize–winning architect based in Los Angeles, USA.
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Daniel Libeskind, is an American architect, artist and set designer of Polish Jewish descent.
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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE, is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.
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The Azeri Culture of Azerbaijan has developed under influence of Islamic and European cultures, Iranian and Turkish heritage as well as Russian influences due to its former status as a Soviet republic.
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Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, from 1919 to 1933.
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Bernard Tschumi is an American architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism.
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Peter Eisenman is an American architect and academic.
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Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.
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Remment Lucas “Rem” Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
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Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, MIT press) p. 259.
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Clive Edwards, interior design, A Critical Introduction (Oxford, Berg, 2011) p48.
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Sully, A. (2024). Three-Dimensional Concept. In: Interior Design: Conceptual Basis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51410-4_3
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