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Texture in Architectural Design
Texture plays a dual role in architecture: it expresses something of the quality of materials, and it gives a particular quality to light. Although one absorbs both qualities simultaneously by eye, the first has tactile, the second visual associations.
What materials do architects use for texture?
Smooth materials, such as glass, create a smooth and soft texture, where as rough materials such as stone, brick or concrete, create a rough and hard texture. In Baker House, in addition to a visual rhythm, Alvar Alto has used rough clinker brick to be able to give the building a tactile texture.
TEXTURE
Texture is the physical feel of something - smooth, rough, fuzzy, slimy and lost of texture something in between. Sandpaper is very rough - it has a gritty, rough texture. Other things, like linoleum, have a smooth texture. Texture have to do with how an object feels and it's ingredients.
In a general sense, the word texture refers to surface characteristics and appearance of an object given by the size, shape, density, arrangement, proportion of it's elementary parts. A texture is usually described as smooth or rough, soft or hard, coarse of fine ,matt or glossy, and etc...
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