Influences (environmental, social, psychological, cultural, aesthetic, global) Flashcards
We percieve all things as either a positive or negative. Positive elements are seen as ____ while negative elements are the ______.
Figures
Background
Stepping up to a space might express the extroverted nature or ___ of a space, while lowering a space might indicate it’s ________ qualities
Significance
Sheltering
Golden Section (or ratio), Classical Orders, Renaissance Theories, Modular, Ken, Anthropometric & Scale are the seven:
Theories of proportion
Describe a subtractive transformation
Subtractive transformation is the removal of a portion of an objects volume. It can remain in the same family of forms or be transformed into a form from another family
i.e.: a cube can have a portion removed and still remain a cube, or it can be transformed into a polygon that begins to look like a sphere
Describe an interlocking space.
The field of a space overlaps the volume of another space
Proportion refers to the ________ of ratios
Equality
- Different material, color, texture or pattern on adjoining planes - *Develop corners as distinct linear elements independent of abuting planes -
- Remove corners to physically separate neighboring planes - *Lighting the form to create sharp contrasts in tonal values along edges and corners are 4 ways a form can be:
Articulated
The visual and tactile quality given to a surface by the size, shape, arrangement and proportion of the parts is the __________. (Also determines the degree to which the surfaces of a form reflects or absorbs incident light
Texture