ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE

Organic architecture or architectural organicism is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world. By designing seeks to understand and integrate to the site, buildings, furnishings, and its surrounding area to become a unified and correlated part.

The characteristics of organic architecture are:
1 -. The materials used should be primarily natural materials and in its most natural state possible, using if possible, surrounding materials. They can also be recycled materials (natural or industrial) that the idea is to use materials under industrial process, or have demanded a low energy to manufacture and one of the characteristics of this type of architecture is precisely be more a manifestation of nature respecting their laws.

. 2 - The spatial and formal conception of the work must be in harmony with their environment and accept changes and modifications induced by
a) The materials to be used, that being natural, not all have the same shape and size (logs, rocks, mud, etc..)  b) The environment and physical reality, which sometimes are not fully known before the project. The idea of this is to always go in favor of nature, not against it

. 3 - The habitability of the work, you should consider heating or ventilation systems with low energy, such as solar energy, geothermal energy, consumption etc, good insulation in your walls, windows and roof..
All this without being fundamentalist (or intolerant) since one of the features of nature, is their adaptability and tolerance.

The organic style is an architectural movement which derives from or rationalism and functionalism can be considered mainly promoted by Scandinavian architects and in the decade from 1930 to 1940 by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The movement accepts many of the premises of rationalism, such as the free plan, the dominance of the usefulness of the merely ornamental, architecture incorporating advances of the industrial age, but try to avoid some of the mistakes that falls rationalism and provide new values ​​to architecture.

Gustav Stickley architects, Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Louis Sullivan, Bruce Goff, Rudolf Steiner, Bruno Zevi, Hundertwasser, Samuel Flores Flores, Imre Makovecz and Anton Alberts are the greatest exponents of the so-called organic architecture.

MINIMALIST ARCHITECTURE

The minimalist architecture as its name says is intended to highlight the "minimal" "less is more" or "less is more" hence the term drift and tendency to get a lot with the bare minimum, reduce to essentials, without leftover to go out on its geometry and its simplicity, using simple materials pure monochromatic colors textures and decorative elements.

 MINIMALISM: LESS IS MORE

Minimalism: Less is more; Minimalism is a trend of architecture characterized by extreme simplicity of its forms that emerged in New York in the late sixties. and form a unit. This is summarized in the minimalist principle that "everything is part of everything." Eventually minimalism born in the late sixties reached its maturity in the eighties to the point that exerted influence

The origins of this trend are in Europe and are in the manifesto entitled "Less is more" by the German architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, one of the most important of this century. Since World War II Van Der Rohe emigrated to America to later naturalized American.
In the late thirties Van Der Rohe exercised the direction of the School of Art and Design at the Bauhaus in Germany where their ideas are materialized primeas for purity of form and the use of the artistic concept to provide the industrial design personality.

MINIMALISMO ADVANTAGES:

One of the major advantages is the reduction of minimalism and simplicity of the elements and the material economy as much as decorative elements contributes in some way to reducing costs in terms of construction not only this but also can achieve architectural symbol of modernity, and that minimalism is a sign of our times, minimalist architecture is not cold is human, it highlights the nature and light, the different way in which humans interact with the place that will be your shelter or housing in which not only achieved that it fulfills its functional role but also their spiritual and psychological role with humans who inhabit

ARCHITECTURAL BRIDGES

A bridge is a structure to save natural obstacles such as rivers, valleys, lakes and inlets, and artificial barriers such as railways or roads in order to join our community roads, animals and goods.

 

The infrastructure of the bridge is formed by the stirrups or end stanchions, batteries or central supports and foundations, that form the basis of both. The superstructure consists of the board or part that directly supports loads and armor, consisting of beams, cables, or vaults and arches which transmit loads board batteries and temper.

ARCHITECTURE IS

 is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.

Architecture has to do with planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience to reflect functional, technical, social, environmental and aesthetic considerations. It requires the creative manipulation and coordination of materials and technology, and of light and shadow. Often, conflicting requirements must be resolved. Architecture also encompasses the pragmatic aspects of realizing buildings and structures, including scheduling, cost estimation and construction administration. Documentation produced by architects, typically drawings, plans and technical specifications, defines the structure and/or behavior of a building or other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.

"Architecture" can mean:

• A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures.
• The art and science of designing buildings and (some) nonbuilding structures.
• The style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures.
• The practice of the architect, where architecture means offering or rendering professional services in connection with the design and construction of buildings, or built environments.
• The design activity of the architect, from the macro-level (urban design, landscape architecture) to the micro-level (construction details and furniture).