The course standup architecture makes it very interesting to develop new architectural and technical ideas and technique in a scientific way. It’s a course where you can research almost anything of your importance related to architecture and design. But the kind of freedom given makes it also a bit hard to start off with.
As I'm following the master Architectural Engineering for me the integration between construction and architecture is the most important. Construction and architecture, the two are linked together in a special way. Take one out and you get a horrific or dangerous building, so integration is essential! Unfortunately to some architects construction is seen as a restriction, a limitation to their design freedom. I see that different, when correctly done the two can enhance each other and bring the total design to a next level.
With this idea in mind a was thinking of maybe trying to determine some rules that would make sure there would be a fine integration between the architecture and construction of a building. But still the idea includes a wide domain and is not easily transformed into a design question, so the task for me here is to get some grip on this matter and make a overview. As said in the lecture it would be a good idea to make a kind of scheme with important aspects. An example would be a line of reference buildings in a arrangement from total integration off the construction to no integration at all. But off course other aspects could also be of interest like thermal performance.
So the coming days I will be working on this little research project. Which makes it possible to narrow my search and to formulate a main research question this weekend.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The start off
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not much to comment on here, is there?
ReplyDeleteHi Bart,
ReplyDeleteI don't recall from your post here what our discussion was in class. I think it was the question of studying a range of facades with respect to the level of integration between structure and environmental envelope - from the solid brick wall - to the double skin facade. Apologies if I am mixing things up and this was not your topic - but please post more specific material so we can respond to it.
Also, it has to be more than a review of precedents. Distill a proposal of what you would like to research from it for Mondays proposal.
I would be interested how you can even categorize different parts of a building as construction and as architecture - how do you draw that line and is it useful to distinguish the two? Examples may help here as well.
Axel