BLOBITECTURE

BLOBITECTURE
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BLOBITECTURE
➢ A mashup of the words “blob” and “architecture,”
➢ blobitecture is the name for the architectural style of buildings
designed with totally unique, organic forms, often resembling a blob
or amoeba shape.
➢ This style of architecture is also often referred to as blob
architecture, blobism or blobismus.
➢ However, a building that simply features an unusual shape does not
qualify as blobitecture architecture. Rather, it is the design process
that determines whether it falls under this style of architecture.
The name “BLOB”
➢Architect greg lynnwronte an essay , “blobs, or
why tectonics is square and topology is groovy
“ for any magazine , where he describe his
experimental using graphic software to create
new, blob like design . With that essay . Lynn is
credited with giving “ blob architecture “ its
name.
➢a drop of a thick liquid or viscous substance.
blobitecture
wavy, curvy
made possible by buildings without
Parametricism
CAD softwar traditional edges or
symmetric form
History of
Blobitecture
• The first blobitecture building was the Fresh

Water Pavilion, which was designed by Lars
Spuybroek of Nox Architects and built by Kas
Oosterhuis in the Netherlands in 1993. It stood
until 1997 and was the first building completely
designed through computer generation.
However, the idea of blob architecture was not
introduced to the masses until 1995
Pioneer architects of blobitecture
Norman Frank Jan Zaha

foster gehry kaplicky hadid
Free University's Philology Library / Foster +
Partners
Galaxy Soho / Zaha Hadid Architects
Iconic building of
bobitecture
Free University's Philology
Library / Foster + Partners
• One of Foster and Partners most

ecologically advanced buildings, the
new Library for the Faculty of
Philology, was opened at the Free
University, Berlin. The library is the
culmination of decades of research
and experimentation by the studio
on how buildings can utilise passive
and active technologies to radically
increase energy efficiency and
reduce the impact on the
environment.
• . The opening ceremony, which was addressed by Norman Foster, celebrated the completion of Foster’s
overall redevelopment of the Free University. This consists of two interrelated parts: the design of a new
central library, housing the collections of 11 separate libraries; and the restoration of the existing campus
buildings
philosophy
• “We realised that students would spend hundreds of hours in the library and wanted to provide them
with the perfect environment to study – one which was animated by natural light and air.”
• Students can sit at the reading desks that run continuously around each floor plate and access the
bibliographic collections which are housed in the four-storey central core.
• As the design progressed, the floor plates evolved into a series of undulating curves, which creates a
formal dynamism and spacious double-height mezzanine spaces.
• The library’s aerodynamic water-drop shaped enclosure was developed to house the maximum amount
of floor area within the minimum building envelope, remain in scale with the surrounding buildings,
and allow landscaped courtyards on ether side of the library. Its unique cranial form has already earned
the library the nickname – the ‘Berlin Brain.’
Section
Galaxy Soho / Zaha Hadid
Architects
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Beaux Art
• Is the main fine art or beautiful art

which is based on the ideas taught in the
legendary ecole des beaux art academic
in paris France.
• It expand its own architecture style
between 1885 to 1920
• Beaux art architecture is all about what
were taught on architecture style of the
neoclassical in the school of architecture
ecole des academy paris
• It has symmetrical form to the exterior
of the building
• beaux has splender form to the way
Characteristics the curved and arches are made
• It has lot elaborate ornamentation
of beaux art with its sculpture mosaic and other art
work
• It has arched window with arched
doors mixed in with its slender look
Examples
Musée D’Orsay Grand Palais Petit Palais Pont Alexandre III

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PRESENTED BY SONAL AND CHAITANYA

• The first blobitecture building was the Fresh

Norman Frank Jan Zaha

Galaxy Soho / Zaha Hadid Architects

• One of Foster and Partners most

• Is the main fine art or beautiful art

Musée D’Orsay Grand Palais Petit Palais Pont Alexandre III

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