MAKEing: A New Zealand tiny house as an exploration of research by making within architecture.

<p>Making within architecture encompasses many definitions and modes, but these are often at some distance from the production of buildings. IE architect’s ‘make’ drawings and models, but a builder makes a building. This thesis explores the benefits and liabilities of bridging between imagining and enacting architectural production thought the design and build of a ‘tiny house’. Via an analysis of craft, symbol, processes and experience, the research begins with the activities of ‘the hands’ in architectural production. From here the mode of micro-architecture – specifically, a client driven ‘tiny house’ - is investigated and implemented as an example of research-by-making. A theoretical and model-based concept for the design of the ‘tiny house’ was developed, from which research by-making could be conducted. The Build Phase, comprising the most significant aspect of this research, was then implemented, with commentary and reflection. Although this approach is not without its limitations as a proxy for practice based making, it facilitates a greater range of making considerations than conventional studio-based production. In this way this project makes and advances an alternative design-research while advocating for learning by making.</p>

MAKEing: A New Zealand tiny house as an exploration of research by making within architecture.

<p>Making within architecture encompasses many definitions and modes, but these are often at some distance from the production of buildings. IE architect’s ‘make’ drawings and models, but a builder makes a building. This thesis explores the benefits and liabilities of bridging between imagining and enacting architectural production thought the design and build of a ‘tiny house’. Via an analysis of craft, symbol, processes and experience, the research begins with the activities of ‘the hands’ in architectural production. From here the mode of micro-architecture – specifically, a client driven ‘tiny house’ - is investigated and implemented as an example of research-by-making. A theoretical and model-based concept for the design of the ‘tiny house’ was developed, from which research by-making could be conducted. The Build Phase, comprising the most significant aspect of this research, was then implemented, with commentary and reflection. Although this approach is not without its limitations as a proxy for practice based making, it facilitates a greater range of making considerations than conventional studio-based production. In this way this project makes and advances an alternative design-research while advocating for learning by making.</p>

When hooliganism and the socialist city melt into one

In the Western Balkans, one can still find many city enlargements produced in the era of socialist Yugoslavia. There is a renewed interest by architectural historians and critics in Yugoslavia's architectural production between 1948 and 1980. However, and more remarkably, we find the images of the former socialist urban utopias back in recent music videos, especially rap videos, where it serves as the backdrop to an unusual mix of violence, drugs, sex, religion, and dance. Somehow the raw beauty of the Brutalism in Novi Beograd and the Modernism of Split 3 crosses over from its socialist ideological origins to contemporary youth culture in unexpected ways. The built environment from the time of Tito gets a different meaning altogether. We do not try to explain HOW or WHY this has happened. This article aims to raise the awareness THAT this happens, and we do so with pictorial means.

Coding the circularity. Design for the disassembly and reuse of building components

The architecture design today has new expressive features due to the parametric and computational modelling software, which greatly amplify the potential of language. This condition makes it possible to generate customised elements and systems through a process of cyber-physical interaction between design and architectural production. As well as the geometric constraints, dictated by manufacturing and assembly processes of materials, they can be incorporated in the generative design codes. The article examines the possibility to also include the main conditions that enable the selective disassembly of the elements and their reuse at the end of life, avoiding the generation of parts that are not remanufacturable or reusable.

The Cognition Role to Understanding Planning and Architectural Production

This paper focuses on the concept of cognition and its clarification in the light of Islamic epistemology. Knowledge passes through two essential parts: conception and assent. Conception explains simple knowledge, while assent explains knowledge involving a judgment. The paper proceeded with the identification of the problem of relationship blurring between cognition and knowledge. The external and inner senses have explained the relationship between the stages of knowledge and cognition. The external senses receive stimuli and form primary conceptions. These conceptions transfer to the first part of the inner senses, which is common sense; it collects the sensations and transmits them to pictorial power. Secondary conceptions are formed, accompanied by feeling. Then, the estimative power role emerges in imparting meaning to be stored in memory, here knowledge is suspicion, and the perception is achieved. Finally, the images reach the thinking power to impart the specific meaning of the image, which constitutes cognition. Using the Hagia Sophia Case Study, the paper reached important indices in clarifying the cognition stages and understanding of planning and architectural production. These indices were represented by: color, scale, lighting, the harmony of the building with its surroundings, and the meanings associated with cultural, social, and civilized values. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2021-03091715 Full Text: PDF

Qualcosa di nuovo sul fronte occidentale

Until a few years ago, the panorama of recent architectural production in the southern Alps seemed merciless. Now the balances have partially balanced themselves out, defining new geographies. If we look at the phenomenon with a certain detachment, we can see that the accumulated delay has not only harmed. In fact, considering the scene of today’s global architecture, the exasperated tension for the morphology, the search for the sensationalism of the image as an essential element of marketing, the authorship and self-referentiality of the gesture seem to finally disappear. In other words, the new, the novelty – not to be confused with innovation – as ontological values, has, fortunately, lost part of its appeal, in favour of other themes linked to the context, the appropriateness of uses, compatibility, environmental, to the rewriting and reuse of the existing. If we link this to the current socio-economic situation, which sees the reconsideration of inland areas, the crisis of certain models of consumption – including tourism – of the territory and the redistribution of flows, unprecedented opportunities arise for previously marginal geographical realities, if not completely excluded from the circuits and narratives of the glamorous mountain. This gives rise to design opportunities cultivated in understatement, perhaps “suffered” but far from the “performance anxieties” that often connote glossy and designer interventions that we usually see elsewhere.

In dialogue with emergence

The following report outlines the conjectural basis for an examination of the existing system of architectural production, and the imminent changes that are becoming more evident with the increasing saturation of digital technologies. Emergence and complexity theory have set the stage for a future of integrated system design. With many of our current modes of production already being heavily influenced by digital design and automated fabrication, the question for the building industry becomes not if, but how shall these systems be integrated in the production of architecture? Through the execution of an urban design project located at the Alexandra Park housing co-operative, this thesis establishes a commentary based in emergent theory that grounds the speculation of future possibilities in an historical understanding of current changes in contemporary architectural discourse. The exploration of difference as a generator of urban renewal is central to the proposals ability to induce positive change through dynamic emergent behavior.

In dialogue with emergence

The following report outlines the conjectural basis for an examination of the existing system of architectural production, and the imminent changes that are becoming more evident with the increasing saturation of digital technologies. Emergence and complexity theory have set the stage for a future of integrated system design. With many of our current modes of production already being heavily influenced by digital design and automated fabrication, the question for the building industry becomes not if, but how shall these systems be integrated in the production of architecture? Through the execution of an urban design project located at the Alexandra Park housing co-operative, this thesis establishes a commentary based in emergent theory that grounds the speculation of future possibilities in an historical understanding of current changes in contemporary architectural discourse. The exploration of difference as a generator of urban renewal is central to the proposals ability to induce positive change through dynamic emergent behavior.

Interseccionalidad: recurso para la producción de espacios urbano-arquitectónicos inclusivos

Recently, the concept of intersectionality has acquired bigger visibility because of the interest and alert that have awaken in our society a range of social rights fights and movements, among them, and in a remarkable way, feminism. However, their demands and the theories derived from the ideas of these groups do not seem to have passed through the consciousness, knowledge or practice of architects, urbanists, and others involved in the urban-architectural production in Mexico. Most actions that harm, force, discriminate or marginalize people occur in the built environment which, itself, is not neutral. On the contrary, through its materiality and inner dynamics, the built environment manifests -and gets incorporated into- the social processes of the context, perpetuating or modifying its constructs. Because of this, we consider it is fundamental to think about the links between the approaches generated by the ones that drive social change and the collective work related with the production of the built environment. The concept of intersectionality has a main role in this paper for what it makes evident: the privilege and domination that certain conditions have over others -as well as their possible intersections-, which can affect anyone at some point.

Effects of Restorative Environments on Creativity in Case of Architecture Education

Creativity is a mental process, and cognitive psychology has focused on this subject, especially in the last century. While neuroscience concentrates on creative processes; new data emerges. When we consider architectural production as a creative process, the "free association REST thinking mode" focuses on the principle of free circulating thought, allowing relaxation and free-thinking to lead to new connections (creative moments) in the brain. The paper aims to focus on how spaces affect the creative process in case of architectural education, production, and creation. If REST mode — as relaxation, meditation, and awareness — supports the process of creation, how do restorative (calming, meditative) spaces and environments affect this process as well? With this approach, students will be questioned with quantitative methods to collect data about the effects of faculty and meditative environments on the creative process.