scholarly journals Reinterpreting Chinese Cultural Imperatives Within the Contemporary Urban Context  Through the Integration of Natural Elements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Xuezhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
New Era ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Outer World ◽  
Contextual Environment ◽  
Architectural Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Gardens ◽  
Chinese Landscape Painting ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

<p>As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic development, this is an opportunity for young Chinese designers to start to translate their own Chinese cultural perspectives into contemporary architecture. This thesis uses an iconic Chinese architectural symbol, the ‘Chinese Garden’, as a vehicle to explore this opportunity to re-interpret the traditional Chinese garden in relation to contemporary Chinese urban culture. The challenge is to investigate how a contemporary garden could be inspired by the philosophy and principles of traditional Chinese gardens within a contemporary Western contextual environment. This thesis explores four major Chinese garden types and their architectural characteristics, how their imperative cultural reflections of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Fengshui Principles, Chinese landscape Painting and legend of ‘Round Heaven and Square Earth’ influence the traditional Chinese garden making. This thesis analyzes the qualities of the existing site, Frank Kitts Park, and it discusses the important ‘positives’ and potential ‘negatives’ that exists on the site. This design thesis will take the ‘negatives’ and translate them into positives through Chinese garden making theories and philosophies. While the Dunedin Chinese garden decided to hide the western urban context with a surrounding wall, this design thesis seeks to embrace the surrounding western urban context and incorporate it into the garden as a means of demonstrating how traditional gardens can flourish within contemporary times. This thesis challenges how a contemporary and western context can be incorporated with the principles of a traditional Chinese garden and how existing urban elements can be interpreted as landscape elements by translating traditionally soft plant elements into architectural elements. Just as solid walls are used to enclose the perimeter of traditional style gardens (both imperial gardens and private gardens), the contemporary garden should also consider the application of physical walls in order to divide space (both exterior and interior) and thus create multiple discreet spaces which may be considered as an inner and outer world with a garden boundary at ground level; a spiritual inner world is found within the garden and a literal outer world remains outside of the garden walls.</p>

scholarly journals Reinterpreting Chinese Cultural Imperatives Within the Contemporary Urban Context  Through the Integration of Natural Elements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Xuezhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
New Era ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Outer World ◽  
Contextual Environment ◽  
Architectural Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Gardens ◽  
Chinese Landscape Painting ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

<p>As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic development, this is an opportunity for young Chinese designers to start to translate their own Chinese cultural perspectives into contemporary architecture. This thesis uses an iconic Chinese architectural symbol, the ‘Chinese Garden’, as a vehicle to explore this opportunity to re-interpret the traditional Chinese garden in relation to contemporary Chinese urban culture. The challenge is to investigate how a contemporary garden could be inspired by the philosophy and principles of traditional Chinese gardens within a contemporary Western contextual environment. This thesis explores four major Chinese garden types and their architectural characteristics, how their imperative cultural reflections of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Fengshui Principles, Chinese landscape Painting and legend of ‘Round Heaven and Square Earth’ influence the traditional Chinese garden making. This thesis analyzes the qualities of the existing site, Frank Kitts Park, and it discusses the important ‘positives’ and potential ‘negatives’ that exists on the site. This design thesis will take the ‘negatives’ and translate them into positives through Chinese garden making theories and philosophies. While the Dunedin Chinese garden decided to hide the western urban context with a surrounding wall, this design thesis seeks to embrace the surrounding western urban context and incorporate it into the garden as a means of demonstrating how traditional gardens can flourish within contemporary times. This thesis challenges how a contemporary and western context can be incorporated with the principles of a traditional Chinese garden and how existing urban elements can be interpreted as landscape elements by translating traditionally soft plant elements into architectural elements. Just as solid walls are used to enclose the perimeter of traditional style gardens (both imperial gardens and private gardens), the contemporary garden should also consider the application of physical walls in order to divide space (both exterior and interior) and thus create multiple discreet spaces which may be considered as an inner and outer world with a garden boundary at ground level; a spiritual inner world is found within the garden and a literal outer world remains outside of the garden walls.</p>

scholarly journals Playing with Fire: Analysing the Role of Fire in Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joanita Goei
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Living Being

<p>This research addresses the four inherent themes within fire. Fire has an association with myth due to its complexity in nature and existence long before modern science. Even today these myths live on as a way to describe the characteristics of fire as an architectural element. Bachelard’s book The Psychoanalysis of Fire looks at how fire connects with our primitive self through reverie. Fire’s contemplative character allows us to escape the surrounding world, and transport us to a kind of subconscious level. An extension of the reverie of fire is fire’s relation to the primitive. Although we have evolved into advance species, at a basic level we are all still animals. There are certain primal needs inherent within us such as sense of safety and community. Fire fulfils these needs architecturally by providing the setting for ‘primitive experiences.’ The last theme I will look at has to do with fire’s association with living beings. Even though fire is not scientifically a living organism, it is often compared to a living being due to its complexity in character. Moreover, it often symbolises life in many levels of society such as the civic hearth during the Greco-Roman era. Several case studies are looked at to see the application of the ideas represented within the themes of fire. A range of contemporary architecture is chosen to show how the ideals associated with fire are still applicable in architecture even today. In the case studies fire has either been excluded physically but present symbolically, or its presence has been reduced to the bare minimum. The case studies aim to show how fire can be addressed architecturally using other architectural elements that are traditionally associated with fire, such as chimneys and hearth. Due to current issues such as sustainability, having fire physically within a space is becoming more difficult. Many places around the world have banned open fires. An option to continue celebrating fire within architecture is through the symbolic representation of the element. This can be done by using other architectural elements that we traditionally associate with fire ...</p>

scholarly journals Abstraction the architectural heritage of contemporary local architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sura Kassim Ameen ◽  
Ibrahim Jawad Al-yusif ◽  
Ali Musa Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

Abstraction is used in architectural and interior design and is based on abstraction with formal values, taking into account the functional aspect of architecture. Architectural heritage represents the cultural value that directly affects successive generations, and embodies cultural values to reflect the social, economic and political aspect that contributes to the advancement of human civilization, and architectural heritage is the basis of architectural thought in societies that have unity. Cultural. He found that the concept of the philosophy of abstraction has multiple views, whether Western and local and dependent on the nature of cultural, social and environmental thought, and for this the aim of the research was to activate the role of the philosophy of abstraction in the formal formations of both the vocabulary of heritage architecture and contemporary architecture by architectural elements, Analysis of international, Arab and local architectural productions, to reach a conscious understanding of the philosophy and thought of abstraction in contemporary heritage architecture, and its spiritual values to reach the essence of things. The practical study was the analysis of Western and Arab and local projects with heritage architectural values and a practical study compared to them to see which architectural outputs were able to generate heritage values stable from its past in abstract geometric forms reflecting different ideas

scholarly journals Architectural Elements in Islamic Content and their Influence on Modern Architectural Spaces in Jordan Case Study: "Using the Fountain in Buildings (Residential and Public) and Gardens": العناصر المعمارية المائية في المضمون الإسلامي وطرق تأثيرها على الفراغات المعمارية المعاصرة في الأردن حالة دراسية: "استخدام النافورة في المباني (السكنية والعامة) والحدائق"

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Issa Saleh Al - Sukkar
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Islamic Architecture ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Visual Concepts ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Environmental Functions ◽  
Architectural Spaces

The Islamic architecture has a clear impact on contemporary Jordanian architecture and on the work of some Jordanians architects, where some of them deliberately tried to simulate a range of vocabularies and visual concepts that have symbolic and environmental functions lend its own character on the architectural output and take into account the climatic and socio-economic conditions, the research aims to study the effects of Islamic architecture in a contemporary architectural spaces with regard to water architectural features by measuring the degree of vulnerability to the fountain element and employment of this element in several buildings including residential and public as well as in the gardens, where the fountain has links to symbolic and semantic as well as environmental functions, therefore the research reviews on this will address some views in addition to analyses and study the uses of this element in the traditional architectural facilities through the theoretical approach based on the analysis of scientific literature in addition to the analytical approach to study a set of study cases and contemporary buildings that contained in its formation of this element, And compare these analyzes and studies together to arrive at conclusions that emphasize the roles of water elements and the success of contemporary Jordanian architects by employing the water element to re-establish Islamic values in contemporary architecture.

scholarly journals Piano at the ground level

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Laura Camargo ◽  
Gabriela Tenorio
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Potsdamer Platz ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

<p>From observing the current dynamics of cities and the development of contemporary architecture, great criticism arises in response to the creation of iconic buildings as formal experiments that do not contribute to the local experience. Motivated by this criticism, this paper aims to analyse and understand the importance and the participation of architecture in the construction of a better public realm. The analytical method seeks to understand, evaluate and manipulate the main attributes of a public space based on the features that make it a platform for public life. The analysis focuses on the public realm in three areas of study- the space resulting of the interaction between the buildings, the interstitial space and the constructed spaces. The projects chosen to analyse consisted on iconic buildings by the architect Renzo Piano, due to his international recognition - a body of work shaped by the contexts in which they operate. The projects are situated in global cities and propose new configurations of public space: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; and Saint Giles Court, London. The analysis seeks the features that make architecture successful in the sense that it aggregates people and creates interesting spaces that favour human permanence; the paper evaluates whether the projects of Renzo Piano display these features. Each project has its own particularities. Starting with the dimensions, each project contributes to the public space at a different scale. Nevertheless, the variables analysed were the same for each context, and the effects were considered regarding the proportions and the programmatic possibilities offered by each. After understanding the site and its history, the study of the public life and its local attributes, this paper highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each building and how they contribute to the specific place. The interpretation of the results took into account not only the present, but also the lifetime of each project, raising some potential problems or successes for the future. It is possible to conclude that the three projects contribute positively to the public space, stimulating urban improvements and constitute good-practice examples, each at a different intensity.</p>

scholarly journals Industrial heritage along Belgrade waterfront in planning documents

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
Marko Nikolić ◽  
Milena Vukmirović
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
City Development ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Architectural Characteristics

The City of Belgrade is situated at the confluence of the Sava and Danube. Accordingly, this geographical position has strongly shaped Belgrade's strategic and geopolitical significance, as well as its identity. In the last two decades, the development of several mega-projects in the area of Belgrade waterfront has had a negative impact on the cultural heritage of Belgrade and its historical cityscape, affecting its urban morphology and typology. The reason for this is that urban regeneration is most often driven by economic interests, while the preservation of meaning and the memory of a place are neglected. Along with these processes, several civic initiatives have emerged that aim to prevent damage to the built heritage and to indicate the need for stronger involvement of citizens in the city's planning and development processes. In order to discontinue the tendency of being driven by economic interest and demonstrate a will to achieve further sustainable development, it is necessary to redefine the procedure for protecting valuable cultural heritage. This could be achieved by creating a new approach to protecting cultural heritage in the domain of urban design and planning, taking into account all the values, tradition, authenticity and identity of a place. Accordingly, the paper will focus on the issues of protecting Belgrade's waterfront heritage, its historical and urban context, its genesis, and its cultural and architectural characteristics. Furthermore, the possibilities for different approaches to the presentation and modern utilization of the abandoned and ruined waterfront heritage will be investigated, in order to define new, common procedures that will be in line with city development goals, citizen expectations and heritage protection measures.

scholarly journals Application of Majapahit Architectural Elements in the Design of the Prapanca Secondary Market in Mojokerto, Jawa Timur

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Anthony Andrey Wijaya ◽  
Widiastuti . ◽  
I Ketut Mudra
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Market ◽  
City Government ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Building Facades ◽  
Building Area ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Flea Market ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Used Goods ◽  
The City

The city of Mojokerto still has buildings that use elements of its local architecture. In the city which is also called the c ity of Majapahit, historical heritage influences contemporary architecture. Many public and commercial facility buildings use local elements, both in the appearance of buildings, zoning, and ornaments. The aim is to provide identity to the building. One of the efforts of the city government that has not yet been compiled is to rearrange the area or building area in terms of its revitalization. One of them is the Prapanca Market or also called the Flea Market. Commodities offered by this mar- ket are used goods that are not suitable to be returned to the market as a whole. The purpose of this design is to in- crease the vitality of this market through the use of local elements in the appearance of buildings. Revitalization is done by developing functions, zoning, and facilities. Local architectural elements are applied to the roof and body of the build- ing, as well as the entrance. Index Terms— revitalization, local architecture, building facades, markets, mojokerto.

scholarly journals Weak material: light, time, location and the stuff of architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Shank
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Role Of Light ◽  
Weak Material ◽  
Weak Ontology

In the 1987 essay Weak Architecture the Spanish architectural theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales asked the question “what role is accorded to architecture in the aesthetic system of contemporary weak thought?”(de Sola-Morales, 1996 [1987], p. 57). Given the increasing contemporary influence of weak ontology (thought) within the discipline of philosophy and the resulting spill over into architectural theory, this thesis asks a similar question repositioned from the viewpoint of the designer: What impact does the philosophy of Weak Ontology have on the design of contemporary architecture? By questioning the objective relationship between person and architecture (the ontological and the ontic), the plurality and incompleteness of architectural experience must be addressed. The project uses the relationship of light and architecture to reevaluate three foundational architectural elements: its materiality, its linear existence in time, and its fixed location. The role of light within architecture becomes the focus not of the investigation itself, but a demonstration of the accumulative and pluralized influences that overlay the Euclidean underpinnings of architectural tectonics.

scholarly journals Weak material: light, time, location and the stuff of architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Shank
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Role Of Light ◽  
Weak Material ◽  
Weak Ontology

In the 1987 essay Weak Architecture the Spanish architectural theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales asked the question “what role is accorded to architecture in the aesthetic system of contemporary weak thought?”(de Sola-Morales, 1996 [1987], p. 57). Given the increasing contemporary influence of weak ontology (thought) within the discipline of philosophy and the resulting spill over into architectural theory, this thesis asks a similar question repositioned from the viewpoint of the designer: What impact does the philosophy of Weak Ontology have on the design of contemporary architecture? By questioning the objective relationship between person and architecture (the ontological and the ontic), the plurality and incompleteness of architectural experience must be addressed. The project uses the relationship of light and architecture to reevaluate three foundational architectural elements: its materiality, its linear existence in time, and its fixed location. The role of light within architecture becomes the focus not of the investigation itself, but a demonstration of the accumulative and pluralized influences that overlay the Euclidean underpinnings of architectural tectonics.

scholarly journals (New) Media Facades: Architecture and/as a Medium in Urban Context

2017 ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Milica Stojšić
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Relational Aesthetics ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Stone Concrete

Besides representing a border dividing interior and exterior spaces, one of the primary functions of the facade is communication. What used to be inscribed in stone, concrete, wood or glass, is now communicated via digital media, which became an integral part of architecture in the information society we live in today. Even though this research includes an investigation of media-supported facades as architectural elements, a much broader discourse oriented toward relational aesthetics in urban spaces will be employed in order to analyze the new media potential of communication layers in architecture. Article received: December 26, 2016; Article accepted: January 28, 2017; Published online: April 20, 2017Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stojšić, Milica. "(New) Media Facades: Architecture and/as a Medium in Urban Context." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 12 (2017): 135-148.

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