From Print to Proposal: Exploring the Urban and Cultural Possibilities of Hataitai

10.26686/wgtn.17148605 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Ariana Faulkner

Keyword(s):

Physical Modelling ◽

Cultural Resilience ◽

Education Centre ◽

Starting Point ◽

Pedestrian Network ◽

Architectural Language ◽

Digital Modelling ◽

Pedestrian Infrastructure ◽

Design Proposal ◽

Art And Architecture

I am interested in the synergy between art and architecture. Art is typically graphic and architecture is typically spatial. This research investigates how an exploration of both graphic and spatial techniques might inform architecture. I explore this synergy between graphic and spatial within the context of Hataitai, Wellington. This suburb has the opportunity to grow, physically and socially. This research proposes a Continuing Education Centre that promotes a new cultural hub. This proposal responds to the suburb’s car-dependent nature and aims to enhance Hataitai’s cultural resilience What graphic and spatial opportunities does architecture offer to improve pedestrian infrastructure and enhance cultural resilience? I use the design proposal as a vehicle to investigate how art-led experimentation could influence the architectural language and design. I use printmaking as a creative starting point to explore the possibilities of art-led experimentation. From the prints, I investigate the ambiguity of depth and flatness, I then develop experimentation through physical modelling, hand drawing and digital modelling. The resulting design expands a weakly-defined pedestrian network and enriches the cultural fabric through an architectural language that explores both spatial and graphic overlaps.

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U.I.R.D.A. – Unbuilt Italian Rationalism Digital Archive

Advances in Library and Information Science - Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Digital Preservation and Information Modeling ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0680-5.ch017 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 450-482

Author(s):

Francesco Maggio ◽

Starlight Vattano

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Digital Model ◽

Digital Archive ◽

Single Family ◽

Graphic Analysis ◽

Starting Point ◽

Digital Modelling ◽

Family House

For twenty years, the architecture of Italian rationalism through the digital modelling has been investigated. Very often, the production of a model and the consequent representation of tridimensional views, in many case studies, as outcome of the research on architecture have been considered. Actually, the digital model, intended as a critical tool, has to be conceived as a ‘starting point' for graphic analysis of architecture and not as the outcome. Indeed, it is associated to other graphics, sometimes not ‘deducted' from the model, useful for the understanding/translation of architecture. The construction of the model is not the construction of a simple image, operation, which is often carried out for the representation of the project, but it is the hermeneutic and critical result of the drawing tending to the analysis of the form, which is the true object of ‘imitation'. This study wants to contribute to the construction of a digital archive on the topic of the single-family house investigated by Piero Bottoni and Luigi Vietti.

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You, me, and that god damn lighthouse over there!

10.26686/wgtn.16680016 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Bligh Pringle

Keyword(s):

Physical Modelling ◽

Final Phase ◽

Alternative Mode ◽

Iterative Design ◽

Mass Tourism ◽

The Gaze ◽

Final Design ◽

Digital Modelling ◽

The Relationship ◽

Design Experiments

The ‘gaze’ has been traditionally established as the primary way tourists consume space. However, recent research proposes ‘the performance’ as an alternative mode of touring that doesn’t centre around just the visual, and looks to design for tourists to ‘perform; opposed to simply ‘gaze’. This thesis examines the relationship between tourists and existing tourism objects, focussing on the lighthouses of New Zealand as an architecture that has the potential for repurposing or developing for consumption as tourism. A ‘design through research’ methodology has been employed using ‘camp’ as a lens of exploration. Iterative design experiments that involve, physical modelling, drawing, collage, photography and digital modelling explore different conceptual opportunities for the lighthouse and with ultimate goal of creating a stage for tourists to perform upon. Developed through three distinct design phases, the first, looks at the lighthouse and transforms it into a theme park, adopting humour and a satirical approach to comment on mass-tourism and kitsch consumption, treating the lighthouse as a collective of activities that makes a single experience. The second takes an intimate approach to what makes a lighthouse. Here the camp lens is removed and the light is analysed through photographic strategies and model making. This seeks to find a real ‘authenticity’ to contribute to the final design phase, exploring ‘camp’ by its absence. The final phase, is ‘the stage complete’, an architecture that encloses the lighthouse, re-adapting camp design methods to explain that story and attract tourists with its camp aesthetics.

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U.I.R.D.A. – Unbuilt Italian Rationalism Digital Archive

Digital Curation ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-6921-3.ch020 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 413-446

Author(s):

Francesco Maggio ◽

Starlight Vattano

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Digital Model ◽

Digital Archive ◽

Single Family ◽

Graphic Analysis ◽

Starting Point ◽

Digital Modelling ◽

Family House

For twenty years, the architecture of Italian rationalism through the digital modelling has been investigated. Very often, the production of a model and the consequent representation of tridimensional views, in many case studies, as outcome of the research on architecture have been considered. Actually, the digital model, intended as a critical tool, has to be conceived as a ‘starting point' for graphic analysis of architecture and not as the outcome. Indeed, it is associated to other graphics, sometimes not ‘deducted' from the model, useful for the understanding/translation of architecture. The construction of the model is not the construction of a simple image, operation, which is often carried out for the representation of the project, but it is the hermeneutic and critical result of the drawing tending to the analysis of the form, which is the true object of ‘imitation'. This study wants to contribute to the construction of a digital archive on the topic of the single-family house investigated by Piero Bottoni and Luigi Vietti.

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You, me, and that god damn lighthouse over there!

10.26686/wgtn.16680016.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Bligh Pringle

Keyword(s):

Physical Modelling ◽

Final Phase ◽

Alternative Mode ◽

Iterative Design ◽

Mass Tourism ◽

The Gaze ◽

Final Design ◽

Digital Modelling ◽

The Relationship ◽

Design Experiments

The ‘gaze’ has been traditionally established as the primary way tourists consume space. However, recent research proposes ‘the performance’ as an alternative mode of touring that doesn’t centre around just the visual, and looks to design for tourists to ‘perform; opposed to simply ‘gaze’. This thesis examines the relationship between tourists and existing tourism objects, focussing on the lighthouses of New Zealand as an architecture that has the potential for repurposing or developing for consumption as tourism. A ‘design through research’ methodology has been employed using ‘camp’ as a lens of exploration. Iterative design experiments that involve, physical modelling, drawing, collage, photography and digital modelling explore different conceptual opportunities for the lighthouse and with ultimate goal of creating a stage for tourists to perform upon. Developed through three distinct design phases, the first, looks at the lighthouse and transforms it into a theme park, adopting humour and a satirical approach to comment on mass-tourism and kitsch consumption, treating the lighthouse as a collective of activities that makes a single experience. The second takes an intimate approach to what makes a lighthouse. Here the camp lens is removed and the light is analysed through photographic strategies and model making. This seeks to find a real ‘authenticity’ to contribute to the final design phase, exploring ‘camp’ by its absence. The final phase, is ‘the stage complete’, an architecture that encloses the lighthouse, re-adapting camp design methods to explain that story and attract tourists with its camp aesthetics.

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PHYSICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF TSUNAMI INUNDATION IN COASTAL URBAN AREA

Coastal Engineering Proceedings ◽

10.9753/icce.v36v.currents.14 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

Nobuki Fukui ◽

Nobuhito Mori ◽

Che-Wei Chang ◽

Yu Chida ◽

Tomohiro Yasuda ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Urban Area ◽

Laboratory Experiments ◽

Physical Modelling ◽

Coastal Communities ◽

Coastal Hazards ◽

Hazard Mapping ◽

Roughness Effects ◽

Local Conditions ◽

Tsunami Inundation ◽

Starting Point

This coastal hazards emphasize the need for engineers to understand the fundamental processes causing damage and the potential of maximum damage in order to design coastal communities with increased resilience to tsunami events. Common methods used to evaluate local conditions caused by tsunamis include post-disaster reconnaissance field surveys, numerical modelling, and laboratory experiments. Behavior of land side tsunami, inundation, is not well known as well as the fluid forcing, fragility characteristics and accuracy of tsunami hazard mapping. This study targets to understand local tsunami behavior in a city scale including complex buildings and improve modelling of tsunami inundation in an urban area. Laboratory experiments are an essential starting point in the investigation of urban roughness effects on wave propagation and maximum pressures in coastal communities. Physical modelling usually uses solitary wave, bore wave, and wave imitating Nankai Trough Earthquake as a tsunami wave.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/-4niVrzXviE

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Conversations of Flux and Threshold: Generating an architectural language of art and adaptability.

10.26686/wgtn.16641016 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Jasmin Soedjasa

Keyword(s):

Rapid Development ◽

Creative Practice ◽

Left Behind ◽

Adaptive Structure ◽

Fast Pace ◽

Architectural Language ◽

Design Proposal ◽

The Village ◽

The Relationship ◽

Community Space

This thesis investigates two architectural interests of mine, creative practice and the architectural threshold. The research unfolds as the relationship between these two interests develop into a dialogue that explores an adaptive architectural language. This research is situated in the context of Mana, Porirua. Porirua’s rapid development into a city has left behind villages such as Mana, that have not kept up with the fast pace of society. With an expectation for growth, this research proposes a framework for adaptable community space at the centre of the village. The framework aims to densify and activate the suburb and alleviate the car-centric pressures on the pedestrian experience. What kind of architectural language is produced through challenging the static nature of the architectural threshold and how might this be impacted by my own creative practices? Following a design-led research structure, my findings through exploratory creative practice work led the research towards the architectural proposal. I developed the relationship between thresholds and creative practices through extensive drawing and model making. By analysing and critically reflecting on this work, an architectural language was revealed. The design proposal was conceived through investigating my interests in creative practice and thresholds through the site in Mana. The result is an adaptive structure that references ideas found in assembly temporality represented through my creative lens.

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Gandy’s Arkaiology: The Deluge and Romantic Climatologies of Architecture

Architectural History ◽

10.1017/arh.2021.13 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 64 ◽

pp. 321-346

Author(s):

Hans C. Hönes

Keyword(s):

Cultural Relativism ◽

Robert Southey ◽

Starting Point ◽

Johann Joachim Winckelmann ◽

Art And Architecture

ABSTRACTNumerous renowned antiquaries and architects in Georgian Britain were enthralled by a strange craze: they declared the ark of Noah to be the origin and divine model for architecture worldwide. This article analyses the fashion for 'arkaiology’ (as the poet Robert Southey mockingly called it) by focusing on one of its most spectacular exponents, the architect Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843). Taking Gandy’s theories as the starting point to reconstruct a broader debate on climatological thinking about art and architecture, the article shows that the fascination with the deluge is best understood as a reaction against the climatic theory of the origins of architecture associated with Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the implicit cultural relativism that it entailed. The case of Gandy also sheds fresh light on the search for origins in late (Romantic) classicism. Instead of submitting to a climatically determined vernacular tradition, Gandy’s arkaiology allowed him to theorise the distant past as a space for speculative artistic reconstruction of the principles of architecture.

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Does the body count as evidence? Exploring the embodied pedagogical content knowledge concerning rhythm skills of a Dutch specialist preschool music teacher

International Journal of Music in Early Childhood ◽

10.1386/ijmec_00029_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 89-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Melissa Bremmer

Keyword(s):

Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽

Content Knowledge ◽

Music Teachers ◽

Single Case ◽

Physical Modelling ◽

Structured Interview ◽

The Body ◽

Music Teacher ◽

Pedagogical Content ◽

Starting Point

In educational research, the teacher’s body tends to be neglected as a source of evidence of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The music teacher’s body might, however, communicate knowledge about teaching that is key to the profession of music teachers. This qualitative single case study set out to explore what the embodied PCK of a music teacher regarding teaching rhythm skills could be. Through a stimulated recall interview, two video analysis tasks, a digital notebook and a semi-structured interview, the PCK of a Dutch specialist music teacher teaching rhythm skills to preschoolers was mapped. The findings show that physical modelling, but also instructional, guiding, representational gestures and embodied ways of assessing, reflect embodied aspects of a music teacher’s PCK regarding rhythm skills. This research study illuminates the role of the music teacher’s body in PCK and provides a starting point for developing a body-based pedagogy for (future) music teachers.

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O2: An Investigation into the Architectural Agency of Air

10.26686/wgtn.17068190 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Tasenka Guilford

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Sulphur Dioxide ◽

Design Research ◽

Physical Modelling ◽

Primary Component ◽

New Materialism ◽

Human Scale ◽

Starting Point ◽

Mass Evacuation ◽

Design Experiments

Miyake Jima, an island off the East coast of Japan, was home to 3,600 residents until 2000 when an escalation in volcanic activity caused noxious gas to burst from the crater, sending twenty thousand tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the air each day. The noxious gasses forced a mass evacuation, leaving the island uninhabitable for five years. Since 2005, two thousand eight hundred residents have returned to the island but are at constant risk of gas eruptions. Residents’ solution is to don gas masks when the sulphur dioxide levels become too high; however this does not ameliorate an ever-present, and real, danger from the air. In this research, Miyake Jima Island is employed as a testing ground to explore how air can influence architecture. Miyake’s problematic atmosphere is used as a starting point for a series of experiments that interrogate air’s architectural agency. Design experiments explore the problem of noxious air across a range of scales, from the human body to the scale of landscape. These experiments have a twinned focus: combining scientific and aesthetic understandings of air, design explorations are informed by a rich mix of chemical and material dynamics, human dynamics, and intuition. The results of these experiments give insights into two research objectives: to understand air as an aesthetic and conceptual driver in architecture, and, to propose architectural solutions to Miyake’s ever-present threat of noxious air. The research draws on the work of Jane Bennett (2010) and N Katherine Hayles (2014), in the areas of New Materialism and OOI (Object-Oriented Inquiry), to develop a methodology of designing and physical modelling where material agency takes precedence. This is addressed through design research, by way of design experiments at three scales: an installation, at human scale, focusing on “making air visible”; an Air Safety Pod, at “mid” scale; and an Air Crisis Centre. The Crisis centre is at landscape scale and designed to accommodate the island’s population in the event of a sulphurous air event. Critical analysis of site, theoretical contexts, and case studies are undertaken to aid the explorations. The thesis connects with key thinkers on the aesthetics and science of air, such as Sean Lally, Malte Wagner, Jonathan Hill and architect Phillip Rahm. This context is supported by specifically chosen case studies that relate to and support each scale of experiment. The residents of Miyake Jima have shown resilience to continue living on the island, and this research contributes to helping them create a sustainable future. In doing so, the design research explores how air can be powerful in shaping architecture: how air, the primary component of architectural space, can influence architecture.

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