Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as history, ceremonies, artistic sensibility, and many aspects of daily life.
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Les lucarnes et le plancher poutrelles hourdis
Image 4 of 15 from gallery of JEC House / Aixopluc. Photograph by José Hevia
Wooden house around a pillar, by Worapong Manupipatpong
Object Subject has maximised ceiling height to create a soaring space above the kitchen and a lower ceiling in the living area.
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Éternelle terre d'étrangetés, le Japon est à l'origine d'un concept inventé dans les années 1980 par un ingénieur du nom de Kenji Kawakami : le Chindogu (objet insolite). Ce dernier revendique le fait...
