STRUCTURE AND BUILDING FAÇADES. THE NEW CONCEPT OF ORNAMENT

The chosen structural system and the structural element can be implicated in different ways in the composition of the façades; their implication is determined by the concept of structural design in the architectural aesthetics. The concept of ornament in today’s architecture has different manifestations, for the purpose of anchoring in the cultural phenomenon, the idea of expressivity through consistency and not just decorum. The ornament is not considered anymore to be a prior determined mask, to create a significance, to have a certain meaning, the way it manifests itself in the Postmodern Period, it doesn’t have the role of concealing something, the way it happened in different historical periods prior to the modern period, when its existence was futile. Contemporary architecture produces “communication ” through ornament, which manifests itself in different depths of the covering layer of the façades. The technological performance and the new digital techniques in building design, have determined a close relationship between structural engineering and architectural aesthetics