Abstract
Purpose: Modernist architecture, based on the geometrical perspective, has treated the floor slab as the flat and simple ground supporting the figure created in a variety of forms. However, contemporary architecture tries to change the persistent roll of floor slab: new experimental plans have focused on this architectural element as the last object of changes. As a result, unprecedented constructions with new shapes of floor slab appeared. They created panoramic space or anamorphic space. This study would focus on a few buildings with de-perspectivized forms of floor-slab. Method: This study depends on the Lacanian visual theory and his concept of anamorphosis in order to categorize the architectural experiments of de-perspectivized floor slab. Clarifying the difference of classical geometry and projective geometry and its consequence of spatial construction, this study would analyze Educatorium, Yokohama International Terminal, Guggenheim New York and Rolex Learning Center. Result: The plan for Rolex Learning Center intends to make the floor slab curved and bent so that it takes the role of figure, not the one of ground. This exemplary case suggests that future architecture needs to consider the de-perspectivized spatial structure counting on the prospective geometry.
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