ABSTRACT

Architectural design is inextricably related to the natural level. For maintaining the dynamic balanced ecosystem, multidisciplinary experts and designers discuss the architectural design concerning natural protection. As architectural style, the form is one of the most intuitive factors that affect the natural development. Concentrating on the influence that architecture treats with nature in formal level, we put forward three main research questions: the way architecture coexists with nature, the natural value maintenance and inheritance. To answer the questions above, the research takes the works of Alvar Aalto as a case study to discuss the natural value maintenance and inheritance on formal level. Firstly, architecture form responding towards nature. Next, value maintenance of material concerning nature. Thirdly, natural value inheritance of function.