MASH-UP
1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235218510_Adaptive_Architecture_-_A_Conceptual_Framework
2. http://www.archdaily.com/785820/how-to-improve-architectural-education-learning-and-unlearning-from-the-beaux-arts-method
3. http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/18/five-reasons-to-adopt-environmental-design
The idea of collaboration within architectural schooling coincides perfectly with the reality that all architectural firms function due to design collaboration. This pedagogical field, like its practice, is open for innovation and experimentation. A reintroduction of the informal Parisian café style of design discussion and collaboration would allow architecture schools to foster architectural innovation.
The Beaux Arts period in Paris had four primary elements: the Ecole, private ateliers, the Salon, and café life. Contemporary architecture schools maintain many of the core ideas of the Beaux Arts method, yet schools today have lost informal café aspect and with it the spirit of discussing design in a more informal setting. If we dismantle the rigid hierarchy and need for competition and recreate the informal café style of architectural discussion and innovation in contemporary architecture schools, then they would become better environments for learning design and environmental sustainability.
The concerns of the current avant-garde and those of environmental architects meet in nature. After the rigors of the Modern Movement, during which nature-as-model was regarded with great ambivalence, we have returned, on the basis of deeper understanding, to new kinds of nature worship.
It is the particularity and the dynamism of nature—its capacities to repeat without repeating and to evolve, capacities that have evaded mechanical mass production—which are now within our ability to imitate in material culture. Adaptive architecture is concerned with buildings that are designed to adapt to their environment, their inhabitants and occupants, [it resolves] more of the contradictions between High Tech and environmental practice by leaving the High Tech’s visibility behind. [Adaptive structures] have a number of elements that re-occur across the design space. The re-use of modules...has a long history in architectural design...they are designed to be removed and re-located. The governing ideas for both the site and the [building is] in large part derived from climate and topography. Adaptations have impact on the environment that architecture encloses. The form of a building, however, is crucial to its environmental performance, as are its orientation and materials.
The concerns of the current avant-garde and those of environmental architects meet in nature. After the rigors of the Modern Movement, during which nature-as-model was regarded with great ambivalence, we have returned, on the basis of deeper understanding, to new kinds of nature worship.
It is the particularity and the dynamism of nature—its capacities to repeat without repeating and to evolve, capacities that have evaded mechanical mass production—which are now within our ability to imitate in material culture. Adaptive architecture is concerned with buildings that are designed to adapt to their environment, their inhabitants and occupants, [it resolves] more of the contradictions between High Tech and environmental practice by leaving the High Tech’s visibility behind. [Adaptive structures] have a number of elements that re-occur across the design space. The re-use of modules...has a long history in architectural design...they are designed to be removed and re-located. The governing ideas for both the site and the [building is] in large part derived from climate and topography. Adaptations have impact on the environment that architecture encloses. The form of a building, however, is crucial to its environmental performance, as are its orientation and materials.
“Semiotic structures are binary, hierarchical, closed… . Matter is literally riddled with properties, dissymmetries, inhomogeneities, singularities… Matter is, in short, active, dynamic and creative." Individuals might then be empowered to change architectural layout manually, to combine the re-configurability of different units to establish different architectural topologies, or the building might respond to them in a particular way automatically. Designed specifically for inhabitant intervention... inhabitants will be able to move, rotate and re-position architectural elements
SUMMARY
If the mash-up is to be distilled into a grouping of the issues and principles raised, we might obtain an Adaptive Design Theory that manifests in modular construction, design for sustainability and design planning in close response to situation. In terms of developing spaces that will adapt to the changing architectural curricula, the building's assembly will enable a heightened degree of flexibility in that objects within an open plan will be adjustable to fit the desired function. A greater porosity can then be achieved within plastic spatial topologies of the new structure, which target changing programmatic needs moving into the future. Form, therefore, flows from adhering to the site fabric; a spatial order is not fixed due to the delineation of spatial division via configurable, internal elements.
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING
1-POINT
TWO-POINT
SUMMARY
If the mash-up is to be distilled into a grouping of the issues and principles raised, we might obtain an Adaptive Design Theory that manifests in modular construction, design for sustainability and design planning in close response to situation. In terms of developing spaces that will adapt to the changing architectural curricula, the building's assembly will enable a heightened degree of flexibility in that objects within an open plan will be adjustable to fit the desired function. A greater porosity can then be achieved within plastic spatial topologies of the new structure, which target changing programmatic needs moving into the future. Form, therefore, flows from adhering to the site fabric; a spatial order is not fixed due to the delineation of spatial division via configurable, internal elements.
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING
1-POINT
INTEGRATED ELEMENTS
PLAN DRAWN FROM SITE CONSTRAINTS
OBJECTS ARE MADE TO MOVE
FORM COMPOSED OF MODULES
PROGRAM RESPONDS TO SITE
OCCUPANTS ARE CLOSE TO NATURAL SURROUNDS
DYNAMISM IN ARCHITECTURAL FORM
OPENNESS IN PLAN
SOLID ELEMENTS ARE NOT FIXED
VARIETY IN FORM
PLASTIC TOPOLOGY
ADAPTATIONS HAVE IMPACT ON THE ENCLOSING ENVIRONMENT
SITE IS GENERATOR OF FORMS
RECURRING ELEMENTS ALONG STRUCTURE
ORIENTATION IS VITAL FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
PRIVATE, SECLUDED SPACE BRINGS 'CAFE' ASPECT
DESIGN FOR FUTURE DECONSTRUCTION
ASYMMETRICAL STRUCTURES PROVOKE CREATIVITY
TWO-POINT
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