Due to the laws of physics, without the ground, buildings
would not have anything to hold them up. The relationship between a building
and the ground is crucial to a building’s structural performance. If the
foundation is compromised the building will have very little chance of
prolonged survival.
However,
not all buildings have to have a perpendicular, rectangular meeting with the
ground. They can meet the ground in various ways, seemingly unstable, without
corrupting the structure. The way in which a building meets the ground can
comment on how physics works on buildings, for example, or it can show openings
into the building, or reflect on other ideas presented throughout the building.
The
Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada has a part of its building that looks
as if it is rectilinear volume being pushed down by gravity creating “breaks”
in the façade.
Odd that the joint between the glass and the stone is similar.
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