Difference from Avant-Garde Futurism: Honest Materials

A curved building where the materials are evident. While avant-garde futurism also features continuous curves, it often uses seamless coatings to wrap everything in pure white, deliberately obscuring how it was made and explicitly excluding wood and stone. Organic architecture, in contrast, reveals the formwork texture of fair-faced concrete, the stratification of stone masonry, the laminations of glulam, and the horizontal ramming marks of rammed earth on its curved surfaces. The form is fluid, but the materials never lie. Avoid: wrapping the entire volume in seamless white coating, completely hiding joints and construction methods, excluding natural materials like wood and stone, or making the surface appear smooth and plastic-like without texture.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟曲面但看得出材料的建築。前衛未來主義同樣是連續的曲面,但它用無縫塗裝把一切包成全白,刻意讓人看不出是怎麼做出來的,而且明確排除木頭與石頭;有機建築相反:曲面上看得見清水模的板模紋、石砌的層理、膠合木的疊層、夯土的水平夯痕。形是流動的,但材料從不說謊。避免:用無縫白色塗裝包覆整個量體、把接合與工法完全隱藏、排除木與石等天然材料、讓表面做成沒有質感的光滑塑膠感。