THE THEORY

Louis Sullivan: Form Follows Function  (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051128194123.htm)

Bjarke Ingles Group: Yes is More  (http://www.archdaily.com/366660/yes-is-more-the-big-philosophy/)

Le Corbusier: Five Points of Architecture  (http://anibal.gyte.edu.tr/hebe/AblDrive/73746022/w/Storage/987_2011_1_310_73746022/Downloads/5-points-of-arch.pdf)

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In recent years, modern architecture has illustrated an avant-garde full of crazy ideas. However, these designs lack thoughts of purpose, hence the developed architectural theory is, A pragmatic utopian architecture that takes on the creation of socially, economically and environmentally perfect places as a practical objective.

There are two architectural structures being created, the school and the bridge. Both would be designed with a similar concept that if form follows function, then you should be able to look at a building and have a good idea about what goes on inside. This is significant as it allows people to make sense of a place and help people figure out where they are. However, if this concept is not developed it would be like buildings of well-organized corporate consultants that build predictable and boring boxes of high standard.

Two of Le Corbusier’s Five points of architecture are:

(1) the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground

(2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space

Although suspending elements mid-air may be depicted as detached from reality that failing to become something other than eccentric curiosities, placing areas on a higher level, allows for the ground floor being almost entirely open. The bridge acts as the ground floor and with open space allows its purpose to be demonstrated which is to account for main circulation flow.

Furthermore, through the suspension of elements in the air presenting mysticism of computer visualisations alongside the concept of form following of the other elements, a small but very fertile overlap between the two creates a distinctive theory.