In design, the idiom of ‘form follows function’ serves to ground artistic license.
Art can be non-functional, but design must attend to a function. By definition a shelter must protect the occupants, but the form of the functional elements can vary as long as the purpose is not lost. Constraints of practicality, structure, safety, artifice, and fashion modify the design. Identifying the constraints is key to well done work. The above noted shelter may, or may not, protect the occupants very well.
Some examples follow. There are no perfect designs but resolving the constraints makes a design better and more pleasing. Also, visa versa. This missive reflects my random thoughts. Make your own known.
Seating-
This works round the fire pit… ..… and indoors. However, constraints to indoor use?
When firewood is needed, grab these…. I’ve used them when camping all my life; until those bulky aluminum things, that might unfold to sit in, replaced the uncomplicated simplicity. I don’t know about house décor….
Made of metal the hot seat of pleasant weather …. discourages skateboarders, the homeless, and … toasting buttocks.
Going indoors … …….. Next.
Since the last quarter of the 20th century CAD and design software have permitted twists in wood manipulation to evolve. Designers can push the functional envelope to greater extremes.
Now, the questions are, art? Or, lighting manipulating the design? Maybe, it is even comfortable? Can you actually sit in it?
(Image credit: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodwo...ity-part-1)
One more? ....
Art can be non-functional, but design must attend to a function. By definition a shelter must protect the occupants, but the form of the functional elements can vary as long as the purpose is not lost. Constraints of practicality, structure, safety, artifice, and fashion modify the design. Identifying the constraints is key to well done work. The above noted shelter may, or may not, protect the occupants very well.
Some examples follow. There are no perfect designs but resolving the constraints makes a design better and more pleasing. Also, visa versa. This missive reflects my random thoughts. Make your own known.
Seating-
This works round the fire pit… ..… and indoors. However, constraints to indoor use?
When firewood is needed, grab these…. I’ve used them when camping all my life; until those bulky aluminum things, that might unfold to sit in, replaced the uncomplicated simplicity. I don’t know about house décor….
Made of metal the hot seat of pleasant weather …. discourages skateboarders, the homeless, and … toasting buttocks.
Going indoors … …….. Next.
Since the last quarter of the 20th century CAD and design software have permitted twists in wood manipulation to evolve. Designers can push the functional envelope to greater extremes.
Now, the questions are, art? Or, lighting manipulating the design? Maybe, it is even comfortable? Can you actually sit in it?
(Image credit: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodwo...ity-part-1)
One more? ....