Principles of Architectural Design in the Shaping Paradigm

Abstract

The narrative motive is the search for new principles of architectural design in the paradigm of shaping, the development of techniques and methods of constructing new "plastic objects". The thesis of the need to focus on new principles is supported. The text contains original statements of architects, theorists, critics related to the antithesis of "formula-principle". The article presents student works illustrating the principle of "matryoshka", which, in our version, is an abstraction, a kind of "concept" for a temporary semantic replacement. For the design, we introduced the concept of "Nested structures". Architectural and urban planning structures with specific qualities that allow them to be defined as "nested structures" and identified not only as a design tool, but also its object itself are considered. In this study, "nested structures" are considered as a general principle of creating plastic forms and organizing space in architectural design.