Preliminary Course
Botany. Architectural Analysis
Axis typology.
Plant typology basics
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Architectural analysis is based on morphological stem characterizations for studying plant
form and understanding its dynamics.
- The flowering position and its impact on the growth strategy
- The growth pattern, qualified according to its dynamics
- The branching pattern, qualified according to its dynamics in position and time
- The geometrical pattern
These traits are usually modelled as pictograms on plant scheme drawings and relatively to:
We will see that a combination of these traits leads to the definition of the architectural models.