Abstract
Text description of architecture behaving by itself is one of the major forms of communication for architect to express their intention. It could express conceptual and abstract phenomenon like the role of architecture, the design method and the reaction towards the surrounding. Text description can add behavior towards architecture, acting like a creature with feelings that cannot be described through practical object. The objective of this paper is to reveal the relationship between architecture and the conceptual phenomenon by typifying the aspect of architecture from the view of active expression through the text description.
The flow of this research is as below:
1. Extract the sentence which contains active expression as if a living thing used by architect to explain their architectural concept.
2. Extract Subject, Behavior and Target. Subject is an architectural object behaving by itself. Behavior is a verb which expresses the influence to others with object as a transitive verb, or expresses the motion of Subject itself as an intransitive verb. Target is the most relevant modifier of Behavior.
3. Consider the relationship between subject and behavior, behavior and target. After that, derive the tendency of their properties.
4. Create a matrix in which the cross axle is the tendency of subject and behavior, the vertical axis is behavior and subject, and derive the aspect type of architecture from the view of active expression.
As a result, between subject and behavior, 4 types of the tendencies were found. : Involving form which tries to have a relationship with others, growing space which keeps to move by itself, reflecting form which reacts to the surrounding change by changing its property, symbolizing form. And between behavior and target, 4 type of tendencies were found. : Creation of direction by creating concrete origin, materialization of space by components of the space move to compose their space, Application of surrounding by taking the surrounding property and adding new property to others, effect to emotion by giving their conceptual image to people. Through the investigation of the tendency matrix, 17 types of the frameworks were derived. Within these types, five major aspects were found as below.
1. The behavior of the architecture property which is changeable to surrounding by subject itself moving.
2. The functional component which creates specific property by behaving as an alien element in the component which composes the architectural space.
3. The constitutive component which expresses design methods by behaving as the element creating architectural space.
4. The space which takes in the surrounding to add the alien property.
As the expression, how it moves is the original property of architecture. This is because the active expression in the text is non-existent within architect's community. Therefore, these types of the frameworks are revealed as intrinsic properties of architecture when architect express their own design.
