The conceptual landform or terrain can be seen as an high influential and fundamental factor in the practical process of architecture design.
Werner writes that the behavior of natural landform varies in abundant forms and patterns in the magical world (1999, p102-104). In this way, the architectural design can not follow the same way without the examination and consideration of the factor of natural terrain.
In addition, a project taken by various architects shows that concept of landform proved its importance both in the category of gardens, parks and the classification of public buildings (Jauslin, 2013, p.82). As Lu suggests that architectures which are built on the uneven terrain are under the serious consideration of structure retrofitting. She explains that this kind of situation is likely to lead to the forced unevenly of the ambient soil and architectures, regarding as a crucial safety issue (2010, p.1). Therefore, as she said, architecture design need to take into account and base on the landform of certain circumstances.
Reference
Jauslin, D 2013, Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain and Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, Journal of Landscape Architecture, vol.8, pp.82-83, accessed 25 June 2013 from UNSW Library.
Lu, XL (ed.)2010, Retrofitting design of building structures, e-book, accessed 25 June 2013 from UNSW Library.
Werner, BT 1999, Complexity in natural landform patterns, Science, vol. 284, no.5411, pp.102-104, accessed 25 June 2013 from UNSW Library.
