Ambiguous Rationality: The Structural Design of Alvar Aalto

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dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorXie, Fangjie
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Architecture
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Architectureen
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-30T09:53:53Z
dc.date.available2023-06-30T09:53:53Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-29
dc.description.abstractUnlike "humanizing", "expressive forms", and "phenomenological significance of materials", Aalto's structural conception has been seldom recognized as masterly touches and even misunderstood by some theorists as "a-tectonic" and "irrational." Since initiating practice, he had developed a "surface + frame" composite as a structural solution. Then a "thick partition" formed with ambient spaces, became a basis to fully explore in spatial, lighting, and signifying dimensions, breaking a new path long before the "skin + bone" prototype of modern architecture received sublation from the younger generation. This paper chooses three built churches throughout Aalto's career for a serial case study and reveals, through analyses from drawings to actual construction, how the composite system acts as a reasonable stress system and construction basis, participating in controlling the force system and force flows, how the "thick partition" mediates the spatial flows and directs the light-shadow interplay, and how such webs of significance have transcended the high modern architecture.en
dc.description.versionPeer revieweden
dc.format.extent21
dc.format.extent146-166
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.citationXie , F 2023 , ' Ambiguous Rationality: The Structural Design of Alvar Aalto ' , Architectural Research in Finland , vol. 6 , no. 1 , pp. 146-166 . https://doi.org/10.37457/arf.130447en
dc.identifier.doi10.37457/arf.130447
dc.identifier.issn2489-6799
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/122026
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202306304394
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture, Oulu School of Architecture, Oulu University, Finnish Association of Architects = Suomen arkkitehtiliitto SAFA
dc.relation.ispartofseriesArchitectural Research in Finlanden
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 6, issue 1en
dc.rightsopenAccessen
dc.titleAmbiguous Rationality: The Structural Design of Alvar Aaltoen
dc.typeA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessäfi
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