Collages: Collages give architects the tools for the seamless combination of preexisting ideas, shapes, and techniques that can positively coexist to create new, refined and polished architectural models.
- VitraHaus, the architects took a very basic idea from antiquity, which is the simple pentagon shape of a house, and combined that with post modernist ideas of architecture to create a complex structure from a not so complex shape.
- Grace Farms, different trajectories are combined to make way for an organic flow of the streamlike structure that is created. This organic flow creates quite organic shapes within it that coexist in the common pathway.
- Oakland Museum, a positive combination of paths that give way to the coexistence of rectangles to create an elaborate structure.
Collision: a specific practice of negative forceful shape combination that allows for the creation of creative and innovative structures that may not be possible with the use of simple shapes alone.
- VitraHaus, twelve extruded pentagons are quite forcefully combined together as if they were put in a bag and shaken up until this structure forms. It is thus not a positive process as the combination seems forceful and even a bit violent.
- Grace Farms, the combination of trajectories looks to forcefully mold the path by pushing it violently into creating the shapes that result from the flow.
- Oakland Museum,
Coincidence: is the purposeful commonality shared between aspects of an architectural piece through the repetition of shapes and ideas.
- VitraHaus, all of the twelve pieces that make up this structure have a commonality between them, which is the extrusion of the pentagon.
- Grace Farms, all of the shapes created share a key characteristic which is their organic nature. This idea is what unites the shapes to create this cohesive structure.
- Oakland Museum, the combination of pathways to create spaces has given these spaces a shared commonality which is the rectangle.
VitraHaus
Grace Farms
Oakland Museum
