NATURAL SHAPES & FORMS

ANIMAL-LIKE

Representations of animals, may be highly stylized.
(e.g., animal forms, claws, or heads)

SHELLS & SPIRALS

Representations of invertebrates.
(e.g., images or forms of shells and spirals, bees & their hives, butterflies, spiders & their webs)

CURVES & ARCHES

Representing curves found in nature like treelike shapes, ovals, semi curvilinear forms.
(e.g., egg & dart, arching columns & domes)

FLUID FORMS

Shapes resisting straight lines and right angles, that are sinuous or flowing, they act as if they are adapting to forces found in nature.
(e.g., sinuous floor inlay)

ABSTRACTION OF NATURE

A simulation rather than replication of natural form or function; forms are vaguely reminiscent of those naturally found but use nature as a model.
(e.g., Monet painting of flowers, fleur de lis ironwork, Gaudi's Sagrada Familia)

INSIDE-OUTSIDE

Outside Interior spaces that appear connected to the outside environment, embracing inside what's nearby outside near to the building.
(e.g., interior gardens, ocean motif used if located at the beach, same flooring used both inside & outside)