Tectonics, or the art of building

To create an expressive look and feel of an apartment house is of great importance tectonics. It primarily reflects the degree of stability of structures under the influence of gravity. Therefore, you should distinguish between carriers that support and carried by the elements, as well as protecting the surface. Depending on the plan, they can be (they produce their impression) "severe" or "light", "massive" or "spatial", "static" or "dynamic". For example the roof of static forms, painted in "serious" tone, associated with the term "roof". If it rests on massive proportions and articulation of the walls, then the impression of stability is enhanced. Acute same asymmetrical roof, painted in bright, light tone with a slightly detect edges with a wall, makes the overall impression of instability. Thus, along with the tectonics of the whole formed by tectonics and live parts of the building. In general, there are three variants of the artistic development of structures: - Constructive tectonics-a direct reflection of the constructive structure, such as a skeleton of wooden porch, which consists of supporting uprights, horizontal studs and lintels, and filled with filler elements, glazing and cladding - Art tectonics and artistic reflection the principal features of the design, such as receptions, highlighting the stability of the stone wall, the stresses in it, growing to a bottom under the force of gravity, the pointing "by laying" cap, small windows in the lower part of the wall, and larger at the top with a light frame around them, strained vertical pilasters at the corners and piers and ornamental bridges over the openings, and in addition, the light tone of the upper part of the wall and more dense, heavy bottom part and the cap - a false tectonics or atektonika - decorative forms distorted ideas about carrying capacity and voltage structural elements, such as self-arrangement of color stains and finishes, which, as it is superimposed on the facade. Character of a general tectonic solutions of the underlined realistic to exaggerated drama associated with the overall creative attitudes of the author and may include not only the walls of the building, but its other elements: roofs, towers, etc. Used in a variety of low-rise building materials-brick, solid concrete, wood chopped, Framed and other structures, determines the difference in the tectonics of buildings, as well as the specifics of applicable architectural and artistic techniques. So, for example, plastering walls opens up great opportunities and plastic to hide the real design or imitate other materials, that is to apply false tectonics.