ABSTRACT
The history of architecture intermixes with the history of mathematics, philosophy, and engineering at various levels. Designers have adopted concepts and language from these disciplines to assist in their own discourses. The term synergy refers to the collaboration of multiple objects in a system to produce an effect different from or greater than the sum of their discrete effects. In the context of the proposed framework, it refers also to the essence or shape of an entity’s complete form. In psychology, the term Gestalt is used in a similar sense, referring to theories of visual perception that the human eye sees objects in their entirety (unified whole) before perceiving individual parts. The phrase “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is often used when referring to synergy or Gestalt theories. Similarly, the structure and architecture synergy framework (SAS framework) provides a useful language for understanding the structure as a whole in connection to its close relationship with architecture.
