Week 7 Reading

Practice vs Project – 1: Materials and Techniques

Materials in architecture considering materials as virtual elements as Allen Stan proposed material as a natural objective elements. Architects and engineers conciders materails as an importants core to sustainability “with the research on composite and smart materials and the tendency to solve more and more problems at the level of material design rather than structural design (Picon 2010, p.145).

As the revolution of technologies that is provided for us today, for designers and architects is now becoming much easier to communicate with the clients through the computer software that has the capability of producing realistic materials. With this in mind, it is displacing of physical experience and materiality of to how architecture design approach declare the actual experience of the built reality “computer plunge us into a fluid, eminently variable world that give a special intensity to some of our sensations and the decision they lead to” (Picon 2010, p.152).

On Allen approach to architectural “Practice vs Project”, He assume that there’s a big polarisation between theoretical practice which he argues that’s is discursive, What his trying to point out is that theory is textural and wringing but practice is physical and real. There’s some assumption that he made to why they apart, he also point out about the age of architecture, which is this perception of theory and when we think about something or write about something that is separated from practice. To my understanding what Allan tries to do is to bring them together and effectively point out that theory should come from practices, by meaning bringing material practice generating theory rather than theory being on its own (Allen 2009, pp. xi-xxiii).

Reference Lists

Allan, S 2009, ‘Introduction: Practices vs. Project’, Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, pp. xi-xxiii.

Picon, A 2010, ‘A Different Materiality’ ‘Material by Design’, Digital Culture in Architecture: an Introduction for the Design Profession, pp.143-169.

Week 5 Readings

Week 4 Readings

From architectural Design and the image of technology to technology and the image of design: a preliminary survey of the shifting landscape

Morphogenesis and Emergence - Michael Hensel, Achim Menges & Michael Weinstock.

Morphogenesis is the biological process that allows the creation of shapes, determinate of life forms generating to one organism.

Morphogenesis approach to design such as parametric script in lieu of genetic coding with complex system of non-linear behaviour and self-organisation. The core concept behind this theory is the self-organising system both in tectonics and thermodynamic aspect toward building design. Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock strongly to identify the differences of nature and machinic production and how they could interact with each other. Especially, Menges strongly collaborate behind the logic of self-organising system to structural system as he described as “silent quality - figural as well as structural” (Carpo 2013, p 158).

Menges configuring his research base on physical materials and how they counteract when the materials deformation under stress, through this deform to self-organising with the research of unusual or irregular materials such as soap bubbles, perforated membrane, post-tensioned timber tiles etc. To some extent not all materials was able to calculate due to the non-scability of structural test. With the technologies that's available today, the behaviour of the non-linear materials could now to some extend be calculated. Morphogenesis theory is the new era that enables the capability of transformation and self-organisation possible.

Reference List
Carpo, M 2013, (Morphogenesis and emergence 2004-2006, pp 158-159).    

Week 3 Readings

A Universe of Discourse: Keyword

Computational design thinking is an elemental theory to help Architects or designers decision-making process to attack any problems that may occur through the use of computational Algorithm. It is no longer the question weather or not the computer is good or bad, no Architectural practice has no longer could do without these technologies. Is the understanding of the system ad how it operates through the computer aided models.

The relations between man-machine approaches to the society with the advancement of cybernetics systems becoming the notion of how the computer may be utilised to develop the human’s intelligences interacting with computer. Geometries and parametric methods performing the aspect of structure, form and space interrelations through the system of sketchpad. Sketchpad was the first system to allow the transformative designs thinking through a graphical input, it’s the breakthrough of cybernetic view of the man-machine relationship.

Morphogenesis is the biological process that allows the creation of shapes, determinate of life forms generating to one organism.

Morphogenesis theory approaches to architectural is still remain uncertain weather if it’s possible for architects to apply the concept of self-organising system both in tectonics and thermodynamic aspect toward building design. To me we should implement this biological theory to reduce the impact of environment nature and it’s surrounding once the building is built.

Computational design thinking becoming the key element to the 21^st century.

Reference List

·      Archim. M 2011, Introduction, Computational Design Thinking, pp.10-29.