The Difference from Contemporary Organic Architecture: Curves Do Not Necessarily Originate from Topography

Two curved buildings juxtaposed. The contemporary organic building's shape is determined by its site: semi-buried in a slope, curving around large trees, using locally sourced stones, and would not exist apart from that site; the organic curve building can be built on a flat urban block: its curves come from balcony shading, viewing angles, and the flow of circulation, and its materials are contemporary fair-faced concrete, plaster, and glass. One is part of the landscape, the other is a soft object in the city. Avoid: the organic curve building also being semi-buried in the terrain, using rough dry-stacked stone and green roofs, the two buildings having identical site environments, distinguishing the two solely by materials.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩棟曲線建築並置。當代有機建築那棟是被基地決定形狀的:半埋在坡地裡、繞過大樹、使用就地取材的石頭,離開那塊基地就不成立;有機曲線那棟可以蓋在平坦的城市街廓裡:曲線來自陽台的遮陽、視野的角度與動線的流動,材料是當代的清水模、灰泥與玻璃。一個是地景的一部分,一個是城市裡的一個柔軟物件。避免:讓有機曲線那棟也半埋進地形、使用粗獷的乾砌石與覆土屋頂、兩棟的基地環境相同、只靠材料區分兩者。