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Explanation: hi, my suggestion is based on the sense of "balkvolume" in the Dutch reference below
"balkvolume" could also be called "balkvormig volume"
"hoofdvolume" in the Dutch reference below can be translated as "main mass", the main mass of the building (have a look at the picture)
His design of the villa for Rafael Aboulafiya and his wife, the painter Miriam Hadgadya (1925),3 was the first sign of Rechter’s change of style in the direction of the abstract: the building included motifs of a typical Arab house, including the openings and upper cupola, but these were situated on a clean
geometric cube, a main mass having a stronger presence
than the details comprising it.
The vertical main mass of the building raises on columns from the base and is positioned at right angles to Park Avenue, with the wider portion of the tower slab facing south
there is an adjoining "balkvolume" at one side of the building
this has the form of a "balk", this can be translated as "cubic mass"
If the ultimate point of departure for Fujisawa Gymnasium resides in the Gothic, the Tepia Pavilion finds its parti in the Rietveld/Schroeder House of 1924 and in Le Corbusier’s Villa Shodan of 1956. And yet while Maki is indebted to these canonically modern paradigms for the overall planar, pin-wheeling, form assumed by the pavilion, the underlying order is classic, even if the implicit cubic mass and the regular columnar grid never fully materialize.
Voormeld gegeven gaf de aanleiding voor de volumewerking van de woning. Het hoofdvolume, met een kroonlijsthoogte van 5.60 meter en zadeldak met voorgeschreven hellingshoek van 35°, is gelijkaardig aan de bouwvolumes in de nieuwe verkaveling. Aan de zijde van de Rooiestraat vormen twee lage uitsprongen een balkvolume dat aansluit bij de volumetrie van de woning aan de overzijde van de straat, gelegen in de oude verkaveling.
Uit het balkvormige volume werd een patioruimte uitgesneden. Deze buitenkamer die toegang tot de praktijk en de woning verstrekt, vormt een overgangszone tussen exterieur en interieur, tussen privacy en semi-publieke ruimte.
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Yes, Carolyn, I think you can use "cubic mass"
the 2 office masses will be connected bij building a cubic mass on top of them (this "balkvolume" or "balkvormige volume" is cubic of form)
STAFF COMMENTS
In addition to responding to the guidelines and providing plans, elevations, and model, the applicant will need to provide the following for the next Early Design Guidance meeting:
•
a more concise packet focused on a preferred scheme,
•
a design that integrates the residential and office masses,
•
a greater attention to the perimeter of the complex,
•
an exploration of materials,
•
a continued exploration of scale,
•
a further development of landscape ideas,
•
a clarification of departure requests,
•
a fully developed model,
kubisch (in the sense of kubusvormig) = cubic, cube-shaped
cuboid(al), cubiform
the other way round
cubic
1) kubiek, driedimensionaal
2) kubusvormig, kubiek, rechthoekig (like the geometric form of a beam)
3) kubisch, kubiek, derdemachts
You may also think of cubist architecture
In zijn beeldhouwwerken werden de figuratieve elementen langzamerhand vervangen door de geometrische abstractie met de kubus, de cilinder en de rechthoek als basisvormen
Een kubus wordt vaak gebruikt voor vervoer en opbergen. Een voordeel van de kubus is het feit dat er bij stapelen van identieke kubussen geen tussenruimtes behoeven te zijn, dit in tegenstelling tot veel andere ruimtelijke figuren. Dit maakt de kubusvorm, bij een schaarste aan ruimte, handig bij opbergen. -----> Gebouwen zijn veelal ook in een kubus of aanverwanten (een veelvlak bestaande uit rechthoeken en vierkanten, kortom een balk) gebouwd.
Another example (you can also try to find examples yourself) I tried "cubic mass" "architecture")
A major building project in Moscow in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries was the reconstruction of the Kremlin, the central citadel of the city. Because of the lack of experience and skill among native builders, architects from northern Italy were imported for the task. Italians designed and built the present red brick-faced Kremlin walls, the Cathedrals of the Dormition and the Archangel Michael, the Palace of Facets, and the Great Ivan Bell Tower and adjacent Dormition Belfry. Least Italianate in the appearance of these structures is the Dormition Cathedral (1470s) by Aristotele Rudolfo Fioravanti, an engineer who copied—as instructed—the cubic mass surmounted by five domes of the twelfth-century Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir.
I'm just wondering about the term 'atrium'. I'll most likely end up asking the customer, but do you think atrium (architecture) might be appropriate? Thx again, Caro
the 2 office masses will be connected by building a cubic mass on top of them (this "balkvolume" or "balkvormige volume" is cubic of form: like a BEAM (balk))
STAFF COMMENTS
In addition to responding to the guidelines and providing plans, elevations, and model, the applicant will need to provide the following for the next Early Design Guidance meeting:
•
a more concise packet focused on a preferred scheme,
•
a design that integrates the residential and office masses,
•
a greater attention to the perimeter of the complex,
•
an exploration of materials,
•
a continued exploration of scale,
•
a further development of landscape ideas,
•
a clarification of departure requests,
•
a fully developed model,
In fase 3 worden de 2 kantoorvolumes verbonden door een balkvolume (3.300 m²) erbovenop te bouwen, waardoor het complex een ‘poortkarakter’ krijgt. Het resultaat wordt een eenduidig en krachtig geheel met een duidelijke signaalfunctie in de omgeving.
Explanation: hi, my suggestion is based on the sense of "balkvolume" in the Dutch reference below
"balkvolume" could also be called "balkvormig volume"
"hoofdvolume" in the Dutch reference below can be translated as "main mass", the main mass of the building (have a look at the picture)
His design of the villa for Rafael Aboulafiya and his wife, the painter Miriam Hadgadya (1925),3 was the first sign of Rechter’s change of style in the direction of the abstract: the building included motifs of a typical Arab house, including the openings and upper cupola, but these were situated on a clean
geometric cube, a main mass having a stronger presence
than the details comprising it.
The vertical main mass of the building raises on columns from the base and is positioned at right angles to Park Avenue, with the wider portion of the tower slab facing south
there is an adjoining "balkvolume" at one side of the building
this has the form of a "balk", this can be translated as "cubic mass"
If the ultimate point of departure for Fujisawa Gymnasium resides in the Gothic, the Tepia Pavilion finds its parti in the Rietveld/Schroeder House of 1924 and in Le Corbusier’s Villa Shodan of 1956. And yet while Maki is indebted to these canonically modern paradigms for the overall planar, pin-wheeling, form assumed by the pavilion, the underlying order is classic, even if the implicit cubic mass and the regular columnar grid never fully materialize.
Voormeld gegeven gaf de aanleiding voor de volumewerking van de woning. Het hoofdvolume, met een kroonlijsthoogte van 5.60 meter en zadeldak met voorgeschreven hellingshoek van 35°, is gelijkaardig aan de bouwvolumes in de nieuwe verkaveling. Aan de zijde van de Rooiestraat vormen twee lage uitsprongen een balkvolume dat aansluit bij de volumetrie van de woning aan de overzijde van de straat, gelegen in de oude verkaveling.
Uit het balkvormige volume werd een patioruimte uitgesneden. Deze buitenkamer die toegang tot de praktijk en de woning verstrekt, vormt een overgangszone tussen exterieur en interieur, tussen privacy en semi-publieke ruimte.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2010-08-20 14:55:32 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Yes, Carolyn, I think you can use "cubic mass"
the 2 office masses will be connected bij building a cubic mass on top of them (this "balkvolume" or "balkvormige volume" is cubic of form)
STAFF COMMENTS
In addition to responding to the guidelines and providing plans, elevations, and model, the applicant will need to provide the following for the next Early Design Guidance meeting:
•
a more concise packet focused on a preferred scheme,
•
a design that integrates the residential and office masses,
•
a greater attention to the perimeter of the complex,
•
an exploration of materials,
•
a continued exploration of scale,
•
a further development of landscape ideas,
•
a clarification of departure requests,
•
a fully developed model,
kubisch (in the sense of kubusvormig) = cubic, cube-shaped
cuboid(al), cubiform
the other way round
cubic
1) kubiek, driedimensionaal
2) kubusvormig, kubiek, rechthoekig (like the geometric form of a beam)
3) kubisch, kubiek, derdemachts
You may also think of cubist architecture
In zijn beeldhouwwerken werden de figuratieve elementen langzamerhand vervangen door de geometrische abstractie met de kubus, de cilinder en de rechthoek als basisvormen
Een kubus wordt vaak gebruikt voor vervoer en opbergen. Een voordeel van de kubus is het feit dat er bij stapelen van identieke kubussen geen tussenruimtes behoeven te zijn, dit in tegenstelling tot veel andere ruimtelijke figuren. Dit maakt de kubusvorm, bij een schaarste aan ruimte, handig bij opbergen. -----> Gebouwen zijn veelal ook in een kubus of aanverwanten (een veelvlak bestaande uit rechthoeken en vierkanten, kortom een balk) gebouwd.
Another example (you can also try to find examples yourself) I tried "cubic mass" "architecture")
A major building project in Moscow in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries was the reconstruction of the Kremlin, the central citadel of the city. Because of the lack of experience and skill among native builders, architects from northern Italy were imported for the task. Italians designed and built the present red brick-faced Kremlin walls, the Cathedrals of the Dormition and the Archangel Michael, the Palace of Facets, and the Great Ivan Bell Tower and adjacent Dormition Belfry. Least Italianate in the appearance of these structures is the Dormition Cathedral (1470s) by Aristotele Rudolfo Fioravanti, an engineer who copied—as instructed—the cubic mass surmounted by five domes of the twelfth-century Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir.
Barend van Zadelhoff Netherlands Local time: 23:16 Meets criteria Native speaker of: Dutch PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Although both answers could have worked... the customer has chosen for this one :-)
Notes to answerer
Asker: Sorry B, I've got to agree with Jack about cubic mass... as far as I understand it, mass is indeed always measured as 'cubic' (even if it's about the amount of water used at a water park! which is obviously not cubic in shape).
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