Geometry of Segmentation
Form and Space
he architectural scholar Paul Frankl has classified types of architecture into the basic, spatial, and visual. The basic form is defined as a form composed of an interior wall, exterior wall, floor, and roof; the spatial form is a form of empty space surrounded by a wall and roof; the visual form is a form that enhances perception ofinside and outside the building. On the other hand, with regards to the form of architecture, a single object or form has been classified into a core-form and art-form, according to the arguments made by the German archaeologist Karl Bötticher. What constitutes the structure of the building is called the core-form, and the elements that express its symbolic meaning are defined as an art-form. The core-form and art-form can be included in a single expression, but most of them are separated or segmented into their respective forms. An architect and scholar Gottfried Semper once said that the core-form is structural and technical, and the art-form is structural and symbolic. This can be read in the sense that the core-form
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