Geometry at Valencian

Abstract

The importance of the use of geometry in architecture design, and more specifically the use of geometric surfaces that shape the architectural space is this paper focus. The paper sets the value of the use of these geometric shapes defined as formal control element during the building designing stage helping at the same time to keep coherence within the structural behaviour, and a greater ease both in the execution as during its material construction A case-study of geometric formal analysis has been developed, the Valencian "Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies", as a clear example of geometric shapes application in the current architecture. Analysis is mainly about shapes generation, but structural and constructive areas have been studied from the geometric standpoint.