Coexistance of form and structure in contemporary architecture

Abstract

The reality of contemporary architecture refers that the architectural form may not always reflect the structure of the structure. There are two different models in the relationship between the form and the structure: one contradicts the form with the structure while they work separately, and the other in which the form stems from the structure, overlaps and is compatible with it. Developments in structural engineering have profoundly influenced architecture, where the use of new structural materials and new structural systems to define the formal characteristics of contemporary architecture, the emergence of digital programming and parametric design enabled a return to historical tectonic symbols and self-modulation in the natural structures and materials science and analysis to create a contemporary architectural structures. From here came the desire to explore the nature of this coexistance relationship. The main objective of this study was to clarify the relationship of form with the structure by giving a clear vision about one of the types of form correlation with the structure, which is the relationship of coexistance in which the form stems from the structure that the structure reads the form and be the source of its creation. The problem of research is the lack of clarity of the formal and structural harmonic relationship and the ways for achieving this harmony in contemporary architectural products. The main elements are derived from the concepts related to research and analysis of the set of architectural applications that achieved the case of coexistance and the practical application, and then come up with the results and conclusions that related to the case of formal-structural harmony in contemporary architecture which is achieved through a combination of intellectual, symbolic and material factors with digital techniques.