African knowledge was essentially oral an account of the nonexistence of writing.This is why it overflows of many graphics,and each of them has a meaning.
The difficulty lie in the fact that we must use the good graphics on the right bildings.And most of those graphics come from animist religions,which includes mysticism,belief.An example i like is the pyramids of Egypt.They were made square seen from above and triangular in elevation,because they were the representation of stars on earth.Stars here were a link between the supreme strength or gods and our world.The pyramids a communication mean.
You mustn't enter in the trap of washing your topic only in the architectural field.What eyes see aren't what is really, maybe it is for humans but not in reality.That's why animals don't see what we see.Eyes receive 80% of the external information,imagine their impact in our feelings,moods.For instance each colour inspire a feeling,likewise paintings.
They were build nearly 4500 years ago,without our current technology but they still live in the absence of real restauration.I wonder how many of our towers will last 4500 years with no restauration.That is where i was getting.Their builders have only two master words engineering and mysticism.I totally agree with Karl Marx,between our elementary need food and our most refined need culture,the mediator is work.From the moment when someone works and have a remunaration, and everyone does the same thing,the world reaches the social work,therefore universalization.All this to say that,culture is a finality.It expresses a state of mind elevation and to show it requires an extra contribution for instance,engineering,etc.
angle of repose is a very specific scientific definition not some term that architects can use however they see fit by abstracting the concept, a 5 ton stone block/cube is not a "granular material".
yes about the lateral support, but then you are getting into building analysis/physics not soils/geotechnical physics.
Probably the best thing to do is redefining your graphics.It will be economic.I know artworks have an emotional character among those who design them,but stay focused on your building.Renovation is always better.On the other hand,if possible take your graphics and put them on the right building.
Tintt, this is from the author of that wonderful pic:
"...and then I did a search for a leopard print, because I had a feeling that animal fur might be the new black for buildings, and what luck, I found a rainbow leopard print, so unexpectedly better."
So... in green man's mind, some decorations make a building.
Rock art's crudeness is partially due to the fact that it was made using crude materials. So, obviously, the modern answer is some high tech (comparatively) materials with some copy of a design slapped on it. I think it is a great idea to take the process out of things and get right to the reproduction. I like where this is going.
Yes indeed......that's africa.I don't think they are appalling.They reflect emotions in their pure state.A mix of nature's colors:the purity of vegetation and the hardness of desert,in brief africa.Obviously without symmetry,balance that could make it less strong,but not appalling.High tech is a solution,also renovation for the old buildings.Another one could think they are in another point of view very soft,like me.
Ns i didn't know you like that.I copy that image,i may use it one day.That was not the overall intention.This image make me feel like you:
The new mode of representation for graphics.High tech but not so ecologic.That said,the pyramids of Egypt were totally ecologic with their 5 ton stone blocks transported by jews,according to the bible.
It's tall and all those surfaces around 75 floors only for one grave,into one pyramid.They could have add a church,a hotel,a restaurant,a swimming pool in this desert,in sum making of this a tourist site.A small mess,though it's beautiful,very attractive statues,hieroglyphs,the perfect cultural legacy for the future generations in the time.
Why Egyptian graphics and in fact african graphics are always present in our daily?Maybe because Egyptian civilisation had the avowed purpose to mark the world forever.This obelisk,a ray of sunshine literally for the ancient egyptian,traveled from Heliopolis to Alexandria then New York by boat.
The sun disk,right.Following my path,for those who like african graphics,i got a pure architectural translation of traditional into modern.A pyramid.
This is also a view of mountain,but this one has some shops,restaurants,offices,not like the others.Just for the eyes.If Ramses were there, he wouldn't aprreciate it or maybe he would construct this one.
Also found this image of a building in Warri, Nigeria. I think it is abandoned, or at least severely neglected.
The architect who designed this building could have been one of the great Brutalist style architects, but instead we do not know even know his/her name.... Welcome to Africa :'(
African graphics
African knowledge was essentially oral an account of the nonexistence of writing.This is why it overflows of many graphics,and each of them has a meaning.
Good to know.
But translating it into the field of architecture,is a different story.
how hard is it to pick-out leopard prints?
what about Egypt? Those guys built some good shit.
examples, please.
^ examples please.
this African pattern topic is much better than the Op's previous thesis subjects.
The difficulty lie in the fact that we must use the good graphics on the right bildings.And most of those graphics come from animist religions,which includes mysticism,belief.An example i like is the pyramids of Egypt.They were made square seen from above and triangular in elevation,because they were the representation of stars on earth.Stars here were a link between the supreme strength or gods and our world.The pyramids a communication mean.
Non, I don't know, this was pretty deep:
You mustn't enter in the trap of washing your topic only in the architectural field.What eyes see aren't what is really, maybe it is for humans but not in reality.That's why animals don't see what we see.Eyes receive 80% of the external information,imagine their impact in our feelings,moods.For instance each colour inspire a feeling,likewise paintings.
For Sean Connery's sake Miles... wait until I've had my morning coffees before forcing my eyes to receive this word jumble.
For what it's worth, I've always seen the great pyramids as a simple expression of the angle of repose of large stone blocks.
sometimes they're a symbol of value engineering
angle of repose does not apply to large stone blocks....they can be stacked in a vertical wall, which would be 90 degrees..
as a matter of scale, wouldn't there be a point at which a large block would be considered a granular material?
i don't think you could stack those blocks in a vertical wall that tall without some pretty significant lateral support.
They were build nearly 4500 years ago,without our current technology but they still live in the absence of real restauration.I wonder how many of our towers will last 4500 years with no restauration.That is where i was getting.Their builders have only two master words engineering and mysticism.I totally agree with Karl Marx,between our elementary need food and our most refined need culture,the mediator is work.From the moment when someone works and have a remunaration, and everyone does the same thing,the world reaches the social work,therefore universalization.All this to say that,culture is a finality.It expresses a state of mind elevation and to show it requires an extra contribution for instance,engineering,etc.
no.
angle of repose is a very specific scientific definition not some term that architects can use however they see fit by abstracting the concept, a 5 ton stone block/cube is not a "granular material".
yes about the lateral support, but then you are getting into building analysis/physics not soils/geotechnical physics.
Chigurh, you're taking all the fun out of this.
The difficulty lie in the fact that we must use the good graphics on the right buildings.
See.... there is my problem. I've been wasting all my good graphics on the wrong buildings.
Do you think I could get a vinyl wrap made of my good graphics on the wrong buildings so I can put them on the right buildings?
Probably the best thing to do is redefining your graphics.It will be economic.I know artworks have an emotional character among those who design them,but stay focused on your building.Renovation is always better.On the other hand,if possible take your graphics and put them on the right building.
can you change the wrong building into the right building by putting your graphics on it?
I would say so.
Tintt, this is from the author of that wonderful pic:
"...and then I did a search for a leopard print, because I had a feeling that animal fur might be the new black for buildings, and what luck, I found a rainbow leopard print, so unexpectedly better."
Why this small building with a leopad print?Besides a feminized rainbow leopard print.In africa leopard is the attributes of power.
I raise you tiger print.
And can only hope this is inside:
I have always found tiger print scary in a bathroom.Yay curt that is what i said.
Examples please. Either via Curtkram because he understands or from green man.
Given the fact that rock art comes from africa during prehistory,what if:
Contemporary rock art.
So... in green man's mind, some decorations make a building.
Rock art's crudeness is partially due to the fact that it was made using crude materials. So, obviously, the modern answer is some high tech (comparatively) materials with some copy of a design slapped on it. I think it is a great idea to take the process out of things and get right to the reproduction. I like where this is going.
Yes, yes, yes... preach on brother.
As an African, I find your examples of graphics appalling. A little more effort please ;P
Yes indeed......that's africa.I don't think they are appalling.They reflect emotions in their pure state.A mix of nature's colors:the purity of vegetation and the hardness of desert,in brief africa.Obviously without symmetry,balance that could make it less strong,but not appalling.High tech is a solution,also renovation for the old buildings.Another one could think they are in another point of view very soft,like me.
Sorry... I found this online and could not stop myself.
merka, those images are beautiful.
I'm feeling quessy.
Was that the overall design intention?
More from Merka is requested here.
Ask and you shall receive...
This adobe house is in Tiebele, Burkina Faso. This is one of many decorated buildings there. Check out this article for more photos.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2260910/African-village-building-canvas-house-palace-tomb-dead.html
Ns i didn't know you like that.I copy that image,i may use it one day.That was not the overall intention.This image make me feel like you:
The new mode of representation for graphics.High tech but not so ecologic.That said,the pyramids of Egypt were totally ecologic with their 5 ton stone blocks transported by jews,according to the bible.
^ They used dinosaurs to pull the stones.
Indeed they did Miles, I've read that somewhere on the internet, so it must be true.
Don't you guys know that those 60ft statues in Egypt are actually life-sized. How else could they domesticate the dinosaurs?
It's tall and all those surfaces around 75 floors only for one grave,into one pyramid.They could have add a church,a hotel,a restaurant,a swimming pool in this desert,in sum making of this a tourist site.A small mess,though it's beautiful,very attractive statues,hieroglyphs,the perfect cultural legacy for the future generations in the time.
^ like this?
Dinosaurs were all Jewish then Jesus came and turned them good.
Amen.
Merka do not show that Vegas Casino to Google, they will feel very disappointed in their mountain view proposal.....
LOL is that Moses in the back pretending to be a pterodactyl...
Why Egyptian graphics and in fact african graphics are always present in our daily?Maybe because Egyptian civilisation had the avowed purpose to mark the world forever.This obelisk,a ray of sunshine literally for the ancient egyptian,traveled from Heliopolis to Alexandria then New York by boat.
^ Also the Ancient Egyptian sun disk, which has been adopted by pretty much every major religion.
The sun disk,right.Following my path,for those who like african graphics,i got a pure architectural translation of traditional into modern.A pyramid.
This is also a view of mountain,but this one has some shops,restaurants,offices,not like the others.Just for the eyes.If Ramses were there, he wouldn't aprreciate it or maybe he would construct this one.
I think Rameses would also really appreciate the mauseleum for the first president of Angola, Agostinho Neto.
And as per communist (pharoanic?) custom, the Angolan leader's body is embalmed and entombed.
Also found this image of a building in Warri, Nigeria. I think it is abandoned, or at least severely neglected.
The architect who designed this building could have been one of the great Brutalist style architects, but instead we do not know even know his/her name.... Welcome to Africa :'(
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