Architecture has been influenced by human life in the space of daily life directly and indirectly and has reflected history and the age. Especially, as it has developed into a plastic entity by cultural and social changes in modern times, a plastic form has been highlighted as more concrete and diversified thoughts. This is to form the plastic beauty of architecture from the geometric shape through the economical and reasonable shapes and the exclusion of ornament by the influence of the style of modernism that considers the simplicity and the temperance important.
The plastic beauty in modern architecture was originated by mechanical aesthetics and new material as the spirit of the times that breaks down tradition and custom and was formed with the establishment of the 5 principles of modern architecture which consists of the domino system invented with the introduction of the steel frame and concrete and free plane, roof garden, horizontal window and piloti. This gives the absolute value to pure modeling with the geometric abstract beauty and is to get an aesthetic characteristic through a geometric shape with the concepts of thought and recognition, not the concept of a simple shape. Such geometric and abstract beauty produces plastic suspense and movement and sometimes pursues a rhythmical sense of dynamism.
And this study is to design a modern ornament by using a reasonable, structural shape of geometry with the plastic beauty pursued in modern architecture as a design material. And the design of this study excludes the plastic beauty and gorgeousness sensed in a modern shape of geometry, brings into relief the simplicity obtained from visual simplification and the order and harmonic beauty by the horizontal and vertical lines and the three primary colors and through the use of sterling silver as the main material, expresses purity of material and the beauty of temperance sensed from the external appearance in white by using white abstraction pursued by the modernists in 1920s.
It is important in this study to design and reconfigure ornaments as modern modeling by considering and embodying the geometric modeling in modern architecture, the characteristic of a metal and its function in designing the ornaments that highlight the plastic beauty of geometry.