CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE NON-TECTONIC SYSTEMS (THESES)

Abstract

The actual theme of the theses summarizingly denominated as "Characteristic features of the non-tectonic systems" is the mass adaptation of the non-tectonic systems, or rather some fundamental theoretical and practical problems of the adaptation. The theses are expounded in an expedient rhythm, in so far as they summarize the characteristic features of the non-tectonic systems through grouping them around definite problems. Theses 1-3 deal ,vith the "status", - i.e.: the proper place - of the non-tectonic systems. Here, first of all, we define the "genus proximum" of the system and then on this basis we start expounding the features, that is the "differencia specifica" of the system. Thesis 4-6 analyse the architectural efficacy of the non-tectonic systems and point out why and to what degree the specific complementarity hidden within theses systems endow the non-tectonic systems with a particular significance in the industrialized building. Theses 7-9 give an analysis of the principles of additivity and disintegration, that is the two universal, axiomatic and internative principles of building and prove that the non-tectonic systems by combining the two diagonally opposite principles of construction of industrialized building (that is the principle of component and the principle of coach-work) maintain their characteristic openness at all events (even if availing themselvcs with a possible closedness, if that is expedient). Theses 10-12 finally examine the two fundamental and complementary systems of industrialized building - the system of co-ordination and the system of tolerances from the point of view of non-tectonic building and on this basis and as a summary of what has been said - determine the basic methods of non-tectonic building and mark out thereby their terrain the industrialized building.