FORM and STRUCTURE (1)

FORM and STRUCTURE Mansi Srivastava

INTRODUCTION In my Contextual Enquiry class of Form and Structure, to find the deeper meaning of both these words and interdependency. I deconstructed one tangible and one non-tangible object to understand the complexity of the elements and the structure of the objects. After the whole process, this booklet is to the conclusion of my understandings in written and visual manner. It consists of the question I pondered on and then a written and visual representation of my understanding of Form and Structure.

What is structure? What does it consist? What is form? What is the relation between form and structure?

The structure is an element of the tangible or intangible object. It refers to the identification, observation, relevance, continuation of different kind of patterns and relationship between them. It can be an object like a spec or an attribute such as the structure of stand up comedy. It can be concrete or something abstract. If things are arranged in a pattern, connected to one another, as a means to describe a form (bigger picture or relationship between them), we call it a structure of that form. As an intangible example, we can take the social structure of society. It's a distinctive, stable arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and live together, and it helps in the formation and organisation of society. As a tangible example, we can take a building where we arrange foundation, floors, walls, beams, columns, roof, stair etc. in a particular order to form a building structure.

Elements of a structure are interdependent, and by that, they end making a structure as a final outcome of form. For an object, the lens through which one looks to the technical aspect of the elements is structure, which outlines the interdependency of the elements and looks to the technicality of arrangement. While for an object, the lens through which one looks to the aesthetical aspect is form. Form is actually the complete structure which has been looked from afar vision which outlines the aesthetical part of the object the appearance of the whole object while structure is something that one needs to see from a nearer vision to understand the binding of the whole form, that how each and every element contribute for the whole structure which end up being the form of an object.







When you look at the artworks above, you will consider it as a single digital painting so from the broader vision its a painting. Still, when one looks inside the art, you will find there are different artwork aligned in a structure that appears to be one single form of painting. And every artwork in each of the painting is an element of the structure that contributes to the form of painting.

CONCLUSION Structure is not the part of the form, but it is actually the basic binary the foundation of the whole form on which the object resides. Therefore they both overlap equally on each other.

THE FORM IS THE POSSiBILITY OF THE STRUCTURE. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN