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    The document discusses the difference between tangible and intangible aspects of architecture. Tangible refers to physical aspects that can be touched or measured, while intangible refers to qualitative experiences like beauty, joy, and happiness that cannot be physically touched but are psychologically experienced. An architect's job is to understand how tangible design elements like form, proportions, colors, and textures create intangible reactions and then apply that understanding to convert intangible goals like creating beauty or delight into tangible designs.

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    Tangible & Intangible

    in Architecture

    ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN THEORY - II


    Lecture 3
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     Tangible is that which can be touched.


     Only physical things can be touched.
     So all physical things are tangible.

     Intangible is that which can be only experienced.


     Normally it is the qualitative aspect that can not be
    touched but is experienced such as beauty,
    goodness, delight, joy, happiness and the like.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     As tangibility relates to physicality, it is measurable.

     Intangible aspects are abstract and therefore not


    measurable. Beauty and goodness can not be
    weighed or measured.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     Tangibility therefore deals with the physical world


    and intangibility with the philosophical world.

     Tangibility and intangibility can also be seen as the


    measurable and the immeasurable.

     The quality of physical existence and of evoking


    reactions that are abstract are found in all man
    made objects.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     Why does this image


    ‘feel’ good?
     Why is it called
    ‘beautiful’?
     What are the aspects
    that make it a visual
    delight?
     If these issues are kept
    in mind a designer can
    create aesthetic
    objects.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     What is the reaction on


    seeing this visual?

     If it seems good, try to


    find out why it is so and
    if one does not like it,
    one should try to find
    out why it is not likable
    or what would make it
    better.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     How would you like to


    live in this house?
     This is “Falling Waters’
    by Frank Lloyd Wright.
     Try to note what makes
    this house so
    interesting.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     This is not very


    aesthetic.
     It is important to figure
    out why it is not good
    so that the designer
    can avoid making the
    mistakes that stop this
    from becoming pretty.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     There is a ‘feel’ of
    plasticity in this
    architecture.
     This has come about by
    the curved lines for all
    the elements used to
    create this spatial
    organization.
     The curved line is the
    tangible reason for the
    intangible reaction.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     Note the difference in the two spatial environments.


     How has this difference been created?
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

    Note the differences in these bedrooms:


    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     The previous slide showed views that created


    different reactions.
     To find why these different reactions were created,
    it is necessary to quantify the reasons. Ultimately a
    designer has to finally give dimensions and allocate
    materials to create designs.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     Architecture in its final manifestation is a physical


    object but both its creation and the reactions it
    produces are intangible.

     An architect endeavors to create objects that


    produce positive reactions in the users and viewers.

     A designer or a creator, therefore, has to convert


    the intangible into the tangible.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     If a building or a spatial organization is found to be


    aesthetic, a designer has to identify the aspects
    that make it so.

     This would entail the conversion of the intangible


    into the tangible.

     The object could be beautiful because of the form,


    proportions, colors or textures which are
    quantifiable as these are physical qualities.
    Tangible and Intangible in Architecture

     A designer has to learn to perceive the intangibles


    and convert it into tangibles so that these could
    become associational facts for designs.

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