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Edifying Theory:: Constructing an Ethos for Labor in Contemporary Architectural Design
Architects have always considered the implication of their designs on clients, users, and building occupants. Architectural theory is well represented by ideas of convenience, use, function, and distribution; terms indicative of the architect’s attentiveness to the planning of space for its commodious use by others. Rarely considered, however, is the impact which design decisions have on those who are tasked with building the architect’s dream, be they the multitude of craftspeople, technicians, master builders, day laborers, installers, suppliers, and fabricators responsible for the construction of buildings. These are the constituencies of particular interest to this paper. After all, nothing is built without the labor of others.
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Bio matter techno synthetics : design futures for the more than human
\"The twenty-three papers and five editorials collected in this volume speak to subjects of bio-design, speculative biology, green walls and pavers, design by decay, soilless soil, sentient materials, photogrammetrees, robotics, nanotechnology, thermal architecture and alliesthesia, digital weaving, chemical droplets, and even Frankenstein. More broadly, ideas and questions that animate the two dozen articles collected in B/M/T/S are grounded in the production and representation of emergent ecologies, non-human agency, machine learning, and responsive computation.\" --publisher.
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Performance Based Envelopes: A Theory of Spatialized Skins and the Emergence of the Integrated Design Professional
Realigning the design of building envelopes within the measures of air, light and heat has rendered possible an inventive form of practice whose benefits are far in excess of the metrics of data and analysis. For many of its most advanced practitioners, the contemporary design of facades engages the true potential of “performance” when it deepens, broadens and complicates the theoretical dimension of this most liminal of surfaces. Of particular interest to this paper is a discussion of new theoretical paradigms associated with the design and operation of high performance envelopes of which four characteristics of this emergent sub-discipline are herein examined. To begin with, the way in which building envelopes are no longer separators, dividers and barriers between a building’s interior and exterior conditions, but rather, “spatially” defined environments that fully engage the totality of a building’s engineering systems, is discussed. Cantilevered Louvers, Double Skin Facades and Hybrid Conditioned Atria are representative of this new paradigm as is the use of Responsive Technologies to optimize their behaviors. Lastly, the paper examines the rise of the new integrated design building envelope professional called upon to deliver ever-better performing skins, whether in the guise of energy modeler, climate engineer or façade construction specialist. Hence, this paper develops a theoretical structure within which to describe, analyze and interpret the values made possible by this new and expanding field of performance based envelopes.
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Translating Designs for Construction + Operations: The Future of BIM in a World of Material and Energy Scarcity
This chapter investigates the role that architectural data and its modeling can play in reconciling the long‐standing divides that exist between design, construction, and operations; that is, between a building's initial conceptualization, its subsequent materialization, and its post‐construction maintenance. Architectural modeling is at the very center of a comprehensive practice that maximizes the value propositiofon building information modeling (BIM) for the benefits of life‐cycle assessments and energy accountability. This chapter maintains that building information modeling affords the building industry an important opportunity for expanding the range, comprehensiveness, and critical dimension of how buildings are conceived, fabricated, simulated, and monitored. It promotes the future of building information modeling in the translation of designs for construction + operation, particularly for buildings destined for a world of material and energy scarcity.
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Designing for low energy
Seemingly, nothing is as innocuous as the design of the single family home. Young families throughout North America dream of securing a parcel of land large enough to build their own private oasis wherein children can thrive. This model of home and garden is desired almost universally, transcending socio-economic background, race, and ethnicity. In the years following World War II, an entire market economy predicated on ownership of one's residence developed to facilitate this dream. Its mechanisms were so effective that by the beginning of the twenty-first century, 40 million new homes were built in North America alone.
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Surely, so universal an aspiration has little cause to be the subject of a fundamental re-examination of its tenets. And yet, this is precisely what this chapter undertakes to accomplish. Whether, for reasons related to its wasteful consumption of energy, its denial of high-performance metrics, or more particularly, its reluctance to engage questions of \"representation\" and figuration, this chapter posits a rehabilitation of the very concept of \"home.\"
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Chora 3
The thirteen essays in this collection include historical subjects as well as speculative theoretical \"projects\" that blur conventional boundaries between history and fiction. Ricardo Castro provides an original reading of the Kogi culture in Colombia; Maria Karvouni explores philological and architectonic connections between the Greek demas (the political individual) and domus (the house); Mark Rozahegy speculates on relationships between architecture and memory; Myriam Blais discusses technical inventions by sixteenth-century French architect Philibert de l'Orme; Alberto Pérez-Gómez examines the late sixteenth-century reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Juan Bautista Villalpando; Janine Debanné offers a new perspective on Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin; Katja Grillner examines the early seventeenth-century writings of Salomon de Caus and his built work in Heidelberg; David Winterton reflects on Charles-François Viel's \"Letters\"; Franca Trubiano looks at Jean-Jacques Lequeu's controversial Civil Architecture; Henrik Reeh considers the work of Sigfried Kracauer, a disciple of Walter Benjamin; Irena ðantovská Murray reflects on work by artist Jana Sterbak; artist Ellen Zweig presents a textual project that demonstrates the charged poetic space created by film makers such as Antonioni and Hitchcock; and Swedish writer and architect Sören Thurell asks a riddle about architecture and its mimetic origins.
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The Importance Of Material Investigations In The Context Of The Architectural Design Studio Three Case Studies
The teaching of architectural design is greatly enriched by a pedagogy which promotes the rigorous apprehension of the knowledge of materials. Students who directly engage the physical, tectonic and constructional limits of a range of building materials are successful in developing advanced designs which demonstrate an understanding of architectural characteristics such as measure, weight, structure and texture. This paper offers as evidence the results of three different design exercises undertaken in the context of a design studio, each of which problematized the issue of architectural materials. The first was concerned with the exclusive use of concrete in the design of a large scale public building; the second was directed at the use of traditional building materials for producing material studies with innovative surficial manipulations and tectonic joints; and the last was defined by the adoption of a single material in the construction of a full scale design-build installation. Fig 1. Material Study; insertion and compression of a sheet of galvanized metal within the edge of a solid plank of maple. Fig. 2 Material Study; rolled and polished bent steel plate. Fig 3 Detail of Paper Tube Installation; horizontally stacked hollow cardboard tubes. Fig. 4 Detail of Paper Tube Installation: vertically arranged hollow cardboard tubes.
Conference Proceeding
Jean-Jacques Lequeu, \orthograph(i)e\ and the ritual drawing of \l'Architecture Civile\
In the fantastical world of the Architecture Civile, Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826) designed the architect's space of appearance across a ritual act of representation. The meticulous crafting of the architectural drawing defined the very site upon which his highly syncretic and imaginative ornamental language was developed. It was in the idea of ornament that Lequeu articulated his veneration of, and dedication to the restoration of, architectural beauty and delight. In the drawing and writing of the orthograph(i)e, Lequeu enacted the promordial trait of the dessinateur to found his art and science of representation. In the shadowed depths of the surface and its edge, the elevation and its section, the portrait and its profile, the figural ornaments of Nature and Architecture were made to appear. These, the principal characteristics of his architectural language, were expressed across all three scales of being: the cosmic-sacred, the mythic-historic, and the poetic-psychic. Lequeu's allegorical and symbolic narratives sought to reveal the problematic relationship that existed between architectural thought and its representation, at the threshold of modernity.
Dissertation
Origins and Ornaments
JEAN-JACQUES LEQUEU was a most meticulous and gifted architectural draughtsman. The briefest glance at any one of the hundreds of plates given in bequest to the Bibliothèque Royale will bear witness to his great skill. During a lifetime dedicated to the representation of architecture and its historical allegories, ornamental drawings were Lequeu’s principal means of expression. Many scholars have come to see, in the eyes and hands of this late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-centurydessinateur,the profile of the modern architectural technician. His adoption of descriptive geometry for drawing the human head and his overly exacting and analytical precision undoubtedly have contributed to this
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