Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação nº 11 (2014)
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Item Architectural design research through cinematic collage(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Troiani, Igea; Carless, ToniaThis essay argues that cinematic representation can, and must, be understood as a method of developing a form of critical architectural enquiry and thinking in the same manner as text - a textual analysis and a communication means for practice-based research. The proposition is that cinematic architectural drawing and the discourse of occupied space are inseparable and that the limits of both are products of specific ideological and cultural practices. In this essay, two different bodies of iterative cinematic collage research practice are considered. Both sets of representations present new rigorously created architectural design knowledge and refer to the contention by Claude Lévis-Strauss (1966/1962:16-17) that the practice of the bricoleur, understood here as architect-bricoleur, is in marked contrast to the measurable output of the scientist, or architectural design scientist.Item Poiesis or semiosis in architectural design practice(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Verbruggen, SvenWe inquire into architectural design theory1 to find ways out of the gridlocks thatoccur in the design process. When mining for guidance, it becomes clear that - toparaphrase biosemiotician Victoria N. Alexander - ‘we need to better understand creativity (poietics) to supplement and enhance our understanding of already established habit (semiotics).’ (Alexander, 2013) Knowing the difference between a habitual association and a radical novelty allows us to define convention and invention more accurately. It leads to an important implication for architectural design theories. We will learn that prescriptive theory that intends to provide direct solutions - or positive feedback - can only instruct on conventional design decisions- already-established habits. By implication, if we want prescriptive theory to guide toward innovating design ideas it can only do so by reflecting on what creativity isconstrained by. Thus, an essential part of theory should provide negative feedback and address clearly what not to do, which conventions should be put up for debate,both on an individual level as well as on the level of the discipline.Item Material experimentation in Peter Zumthor’s creative process: research design through material inquiry(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Ventura, SusanaMaterial experimentation in Peter Zumthor’s creative process seeks to explain the different materials experimentations present in the creative process of Peter Zumthor which lead him to the final work of architecture, resulting in his atmospheres.Experimentation processes are mainly characteristic of avant-garde architectures that develop new forms of thought in architecture design, however mainly through form paradigms and models. Nonetheless, Zumthor has been inquiring and creating experimental processes through material composition, rooted in the work of land artists such as Joseph Beuys or Mario Merz, that imply the overall design of the final work of architecture. The present paper explain several experimental processes present in a series of Peter Zumthor’s works, with an important focus to the design process of the Serpentine Summer Pavilion during 2011, one of the works the author has accompanied Zumthor during its process of creation during her PhD research.Item The relational space: designing new urban hinges in suspended edge places(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Aquilar, GiorgiaThe research on tentative strategies for designing spaces which reveal themselves as relational, choral, shared, participated, gains new meanings and renovated urgencies under the changing conditions of contemporary architectures, landscapes and cities.Object of inquiry is the complex whole of transitional spaces, intermediate places,suspended fragments hovering among different morphological, historical, social contexts, expressing unexplored potentialities as new urban hinges. These mediatedjoint-spaces – acting as relational devices – provide the opportunity to reflect on theovercoming of the traditional theme of public urban space. Therefore the sustained hypothesis resides in the turning of the idea of "relation" from a conceptual device –for the interpretation of space quality – into a strategic tool with multiple methodological values, whose implications may be investigated through the concrete experience of the project.Item Learning from actor network theory: bridging the gap between research in science and research by design(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Bradbury, SimonThis paper explores how an alternative understanding of the development ofscientific knowledge through the work of Bruno Latour can help to bridge the gapbetween knowledge produced through practice-based research and conventionalresearch outputs.The paper reviews the history of the debate of what constitutes practice-basedresearch outputs drawing from the work of Frayling (1993) and Archer (1995). Anunderstanding of practice-based research is developed that goes beyond a simplisticview of a building or artefact as a research output or “mute object” (Till 2012).This is considered in the context of the work of Bruno Latour (1987, 2005) and otherswho have tried to show how the construction of scientific facts is produced as afunction of both the ‘objects’ and ‘social’ context of science.Through reviewing practice-based research submissions from RAE 2008 the paperexplores how we may re-conceive both the normative models of research outputs(peer reviewed academic papers) and the products of architecture practice (buildingsand artefacts) and conceive them both as part of the same network of knowledgeproduction. This is then discussed in the practical context of a practice-based research project into low energy housing.In doing so the paper suggest this new understanding will elevate the importance ofrigorous practice-based research while overcoming the challenges faced inconventional research in the constant desire to show impact from research projects.Item The Duke in his domain(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Ozga-Lawn, MattThe Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga (1621-1687) was a true renaissance man. A prince, soldier, poet, artist and architect, he lived amidst the emergent and unstable origins of the architectural discipline. He created through force of will the città ideale of Sabbioneta, a place that in conflating the military and civic gives insight into the militarised mindset that helped birth the discipline we recognise today. Sabbioneta is the result of this mindset: the Duke was free to explore his existential condition through the medium of architecture. One means he used to achieve this was a theatre he commissioned at the centre of Sabbioneta, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi. The theatre was a space, housing a stage-set representation of the surrounding city, for the Duke to viscerally engage with the ideal, militarised world created around and through him.The paper will show how the duke and his domain, interacted with via the theatre space at Sabbioneta, can act as allegory for the architect in his studio space. The paper blurs agencies of the military and the architectural, with the designer’s role as viscerally engaged with and immersed within the design process discussed in this context.Item Outside the category(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Bang, Jacob SebastianIt is a recurring theme in my research to establish collections of study models and to find ways of decoding, transforming and representing them in drawings and as new models. The models are “outside the category”: pure form and architectural potential -“prior to an idea”. To become architectural ideas, they must be decoded in drawings in order to be dissolved into architectural signs and rules.Item The city walls. an old theme for new urban spaces(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Miano, PasqualeThe walls of the historic cities have always been an occasion to reason about urbanopen spaces. Suffice it to think at the ancient settlements, where the areas excludedby the fence walls then became indeterminate urban places, object of subsequentfilling operations. For a long time, the theme of the conservation of the city walls hasprevailed over the issues of dejection and the cycles of ring roads, charactering theXIX century and the first half of the XX century. Yet, this recurring theme oftenproduces conservative actions for their own sake, in which the relics of the rampartsare surrounded by narrow and pointless gardens: a new form of insulation, that -when does not result in intentionally physical seclusion - at least so appears at theconceptual level, especially when the walls have been preserved for partial fragments.Today the necessity to take a step forward is strongly felt, rethinking about thespaces of the walls according to new processing and content, in which the city wallsresume to play a proactive role.Item Research and practice: full-size practical constructions for the development of innovative lithic prototypes(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Fallacara, Giuseppe; Calabria, ClaudiaLa costruzione al vero di elementi architettonici presenta la doppia funzione di verificadel percorso di ricerca sperimentale e di espediente didattico. Nel primo caso permettedi effettuare una verifica sperimentale dell’ipotesi sviluppata, creando un punto fermoche possa confermare o confutare il ragionamento in atto. Nel secondo caso dà lapossibilità di stimolare nello studente un modo di pensare che coinvolga allo stessotempo l’aspetto astratto e quello concreto del progetto.Il legame tra ricerca, didattica e pratica di cantiere è riproposto negli esempi riportati, ecostituisce un elemento necessario per procedere proficuamente nel percorso diavanzamento della sperimentazione architettonica.The construction of full scale architectural elements has the double purpose ofexperimental control for researchers and teaching resource for students. In the firstcase model allows to make an experimental verification, creating a reference point toconfirm or refute the starting hypothesis. The second function makes possible to stimulate students’ way of thinking, involvingboth abstract and concrete design aspects.This link between research, teaching and practice of construction is shown in variousexamples.This relation represents a necessary element in order to successfully proceed in theadvance of architectural experimentation.Item Iteration, repetition and internal coherence within Le Corbusier’s creative process(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Burriel Bielza, LuisArchitectural practice is without any doubt based in a constant enquiry over the project. Even more important would be the fact that this process bounces off in two opposite directions: from the context onto the project and from the building onto the surrounding frame of reference. Both these two extremes are confronted in an active dialogue and to a certain extent, they both perform as “mirrors”. However, in the case of Le Corbusier, these questions do not only revolve around these two poles but even further, they do so in relation to his whole career. If we look closely at his works, we will find out that several ideas, concepts and strategies are transferred from one project to another as a tool able to trigger the creative process, thus unfolding through subsequent iterations. As part of this method, his own experiences and education during travels and visits help him to conform a synthesizing regard over theworld.Item Manipulations in the abstract space(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Schurk, HolgerAt the centre of the examinations presented here are the interaction processes taking place at the interface between theory and form in the design process effectuated by means of intermediate media – most of all drawings – in the sphere of geometry. A decisive role is assigned to abstraction, allowing to locate graphic representations at the threshold between the projection of a structural model and the notation of an imagined model. A graphic study based on the design drawings created by the architecture office OMA/Rem Koolhaas are applied here as an example in order to describe and investigate this interface. In the process the drawings are manipulatedin a hybrid procedure consisting of manoeuvres determined by rules on one hand and free operations on the other. The examination method thus stands in direct analogy to the hybrid character of the design process itself.Item Research by Design—situating practice-based research as part of a tradition of knowledge production, exemplified through the works of le Corbusier(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Hauberg, JørgenResearch by design concerns the various ways in which design and research are generallyinterconnected in the production of new knowledge through the act of designing.This paper discusses the role and value of research by design especially through theworks of Le Corbusier. It seeks to demonstrate, how the development of types andprograms contributes to theory building in architectural research. Le Corbusier’s developmentof a constructive system (from the Dom-ino houses to an actual skeletonframe), a dwelling type (from Maison Citrohan to universal block of flats) and a citymodel(from a City of Three Million Inhabitants to a Linear Industrial City) representsa reflective practice through which architectural theory is developed in direct engagementwith the basic media of architecture: objects, sketches, diagrams, notationsand texts.The paper suggests that work like Le Corbusier’s, although never intended as research,demonstrates a hybrid practice between design and theory, which reachesbeyond the single projects and unique piece of work, and contributes to theory buildingthrough research by design.The paper presents building types – examples and proposals developed by the author.The intention is to illustrate a combined practice of investigating architecture’shistory and theory with designing, and is presented as examples of research bydesign.Item Communicating the dialectic between subjective ‘creativity’ and objective ‘rigor’ in design research; A case study of a multi-vocal mode of architectural criticism(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Kazerani, Isun AisanThe objectivists’ distant view from the subject of study has long been prioritized overcreative subjective perspective in academia. This is while due to a certain level ofpersonal interpretation of any experiment, the pure ‘rigor’ of scientist approachescould be also challenged. However, acknowledging the advantage of multidimensionalexploration, this paper follows the notion of ‘oscillating subjectivity’,with a constant shift between projection of the object and the subject inrepresentation of a phenomenon. This position will be explored through a new modeof architectural criticism with a multi-vocal interpretation, which switches betweenthe inhabitation experience of the design outcome and a distant objective criticism ofthe design product. The critique will be represented textually and visually on a wellacclaimedpublic space, Olympic sculpture Park, through creating links between thedesign process, existing critical reviews as well as sensorial inhabitation of the spaceItem Research by design in architecture: an approach into the exploratory research phase(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Almeida, Maria Rita Pais Ramos Abreu deIn the scope of design, research has been a difficult issue to respond to the real necessities throughout the process of thinking. Even the “design” word is meant to beused in several different fields of knowledge and practice (from industrial design,computation systems to architecture).Concerning Research by Design (RbD), there is a sense of vagueness, both in terms ofmethodology and aims. That’s the result of its own essence: design is the result of a big creative endeavour and research is focused in concrete results due to certain questions or problems.Focusing in the architecture discipline, RbD is commonly the most used work methodology.In this sense, we can say that there are so many RbD as many architects and architecture students in the world. So can we improve this kind of research and take it to another level, integrating it into the field of the so called traditional research? The purpose of this paper is to understand more about the “exploratory phase” in theRbD approach. This phase is based in data and collected information as well as individual experience. This paper tries to understand and improve the critical thinking implicit in the “exploratory research”. This critical thinking is linked to certain “strategic questions” and “operational links” that guide the researcher into a more understandable research practice. The final aim is to lead the RbD to a more sustained internal validity (satisfactory conclusions among the variables experimented) andexternal validity (generalise the findings to an appropriate community).Item Transreal topographies : manifesting the unconscious(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Kypraiou, DionyDrawing largely upon a study of the ‘transreal’1 topographies of the late 19th century,with a focus on the Freudian topographic constructions through drawings and criticalreviews of Freud’s own writings, this paper examines the role of the unconscious as adrive in the creative design process and its impact on the conception, perception andexperience of space. In an attempt to examine the relation between the Freudianunconscious and the space, this paper presents a set of constructed topographies,including the actual psychoanalytical setting and, a recreation of Freud’s desk, as themanifested topography of his own unconscious. Operating as an analogical act of‘unearthing’ that ‘brings to light’ a multiplicity of layers where unconscious appearsanalogous to physical space; this paper aims at a negotiation of ‘transreal’topographies as extended projections of instincts, desires, fantasies and fears; a siteof mutation that-‘as an expanse of ruins’-demands a disruption to reveal the depthof its spatialityItem Craftsmanship in Architecture(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Herres, Uli MatthiasIn my dissertation at the ETH Zurich and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, I examine the role that crafted production of buildings plays for architectural space. A crucial point is the question of specific forms of knowledge. On the one hand, both craftsmanship and architectural design rely heavily on tacit forms of knowledge (skills, experience) in addition to communicable knowledge. Secondly,the erection of built architecture can be seen as a system of distributed knowledge,where the transfer of knowledge from the architect towards the craftspeople is crucial for the successful implementation of an architectural concept into physical space. The methodology includes the investigation of case study buildings. One aspect of the survey could be named "Reverse Design". Here, the process of the making of a building is re-experienced to be able to consciously reflect upon design decisions and problem-solving strategies. One aim is to make aspects of the tacit knowledge (experience) of the construction process communicable.Item Experimentation as a method, the project as a production of knowledge : theory and practice according to Buckminster Fuller(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Nourrigat, ElodieResearch by design opens on two news fields regarding research. On the one hand, it is about the specifics methods through the project design as a place of research, onthe other; it is about the knowledge production which is possible by the way of the project itself which is neither a research object nor finality. The basic postulate is that the knowledge production by design project is possible thank to the experimentation.This method seems to be more empirical than scientific which is, after all, common to several disciplines as physics, astrophysics… The method is in experimentation,conception and knowledge production in the project. As Buckminster Fuller projects show, thanks to his Dymaxion Chronolife, place of consignment of his experimentations and projects, that he realizes the constitution of used and usable knowledge.Item Time in modernist architecture: an approach(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Jasper, MichaelTwo propositions underpin this paper. The first is thematic: there is a largelyunexamined temporality specific to modernist architecture, one independent ofmovement. A close reading of certain projects from the perspective of time mayreveal the devices and formal moves deployed to achieve the characteristic effects ofthat temporality. The second proposition is methodological: that the analysis ofcertain works of architecture as manifestations of design-led research revealdiscipline-specific problems. These research problems are rendered as form relations,composition strategies, and spatial effects. Variations as to how such problems areresponded to in turn constitute contributions to architectural knowledge.Item From interpretation of the site to the project: a proposal for the rock art of the Tagus Valley(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Benjamim, Mário MonteiroAn artificial intervention in the landscape, like the immersion of a large area by areservoir, not only implies the obvious change in the usefulness of a resource, it can also dramatically affect the site by concealing the human legacy, landscape and patrimonial heritage, however important to the understanding of its historical makeup. The research we developed has the purpose to conceive strategies to expose therock art of the Tagus Valley, which has been immersed by the construction of theFratel dam on 1974, and the subsequent filling of the reservoir. These strategiespertain to a more extensive scope of intervention, where the engravings become acohesive part of the current landscape, creating new usages for the premises and newopportunities for regional development. It is in this context that we find thepossibility to validate a theoretical model of in-project research, through a concreteproposal of intervention; proposal that, in addition to being an experiment in design,will allow us to correct strategic methodologies and to progressively perfect thetheoretical model itself.Item Learning from Markethall(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Keppl, Julián; Sichman, Martin; Síp, LukásFaculty of Architecture in cooperation student studio project. Its main topic of Old Market hall in Bratislava. Objective operational and social qualities to this work ranged from analytical to the realization 1:1 scale or prototypes of critical details signed architectural interventions, solved quently constructed those details in the tails often resulted in the change of studio aimed at promoting active working the design process.