Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação nº 11 (2014)

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    Design as a key for understanding, a pretext for action, a synthesis of knowledge
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Frazão, Marta Felicidade Mateus; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    This paper considers the current investigation under the context of a PhD thesis.The research theme focuses on exploring possible strategies to promote and empower the Rural Territory, through the historical and cultural use of springs with therapeutic properties, in Baixo Alentejo region of Mértola, where we observe a significant concentration of bathing places, which are nowadays in a declining process.This research explores and considers the connection and complementarity between theoretical and operational field, the narrative and design, the thinking process and possible action. The main purpose of this paper is to identify some of the mechanisms and working methods that have been adopted, with special focus on the‘diagram’, understood as an essential design tool and therefore a graphic instrument that organises information, activates thinking and stimulates unexpected possibilities for action.
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    Design studio as a process of inquiry: the case of Studio Sao Paulo
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Barbosa, Eliana Rosa; DeMeulder, Bruno; Gerrits, Yuri; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The paper stresses the potential of a Design Studio as a critical part of the inquiry process in Urbanism Research, using the experience of Studio Sao Paulo as casestudy. It explores what is a process of inquiry in a context of research in urbanism,discoursing on the potential of the design process as a tool to reveal hidden questions and processes on a territorial scale The research and its case study led to the establishment of Studio Sao Paulo, an undergraduate design studio in KULeuven, inwhich students develop their masters thesis in the context of Tietê´s flood plain. The experience so far, more than defining conclusions, stress some challenges toovercome, regarding research by design as methodological tool in an Urbanism PHD context
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    Different reflections of architectural knowledge on design
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Dursun, Pelin; Avci, Ozan; Saglamer, Gülsün; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Design in architecture starts by understanding dynamics of a context and by decoding the knowledge of place where the space will be created. These are then transformed into spatial concepts and end with spatial formations. Subjective knowledge that is especially enhanced by the experiences of the architect and scientific knowledge come together to lead this design process. The aim of this study is to reveal how architects from different cultures produce knowledge of space and the ways of transforming this knowledge into design process. Different architectural reflections of this knowledge are illuminated by the design proposals of architecture students from two different countries. Comparative evaluations focusing on the student worksare considered as an instructive process for architects that make indiscernible discernible, vary the possibilities and by this way enhance their own architectural knowledge.
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    The Duke in his domain
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Ozga-Lawn, Matt; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The 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.
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    For from design and through design and for design are all things
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Sequeira, Marta; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Academic research in architecture has mainly become a theoretical activity driven away from its subject’s core, focusing in complementary fields. Analytical investigations are common – concerning historical character, theoretical, constructive or technological – as well as propositional thesis – mainly regarding construction and technology. Yet, you can find much investigation in this scientific area, which find its significance in other domains. However, project-based theses in architecture, in which there are no antagonism or exclusion between theory and practice but rather promote complementarity, are quite scarce. This paper aims to answer the question that seems natural and consistent with the above scenario: how can we define a new paradigm, in which architecture would be understood and portrayed as a system for producing and spreading knowledge?
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    Knowledge and studio culture in Portuguese architectural schools since Bologna
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Pinto, Pedro da Luz; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The curricular harmonization of the European courses, the Bologna Process (1999-2009), relocated an emphasis in the specificity of architectural education inside auniversity environment. Nowadays, the architect’s basic training embraces a Master’sdegree and compromises research as an educational purpose. Furthermore, doctoralcourses and research centres are associated, framing funding and evaluation, andpressing an overall urge for professional academic production, which can move theschools away from the construction site into the library and the laboratory, turningthe learning programs into extensions of the research ones. Therefore, in the halls ofthe design studio arise the researcher-teacher-designer, professor Clark Kent (Figueira,2013). Within this scenario, the article exposes both the organizational, curricular anddidactical evolutions in Portuguese schools, and inquires the models and theknowledge, transmitted and produced, trying to foresee any paradoxes requiring an epistemological clarification.
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    Learning from Markethall
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Keppl, Julián; Sichman, Martin; Síp, Lukás; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Faculty 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.
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    Manipulations in the abstract space
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Schurk, Holger; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    At 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.
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    Material experimentation in Peter Zumthor’s creative process: research design through material inquiry
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Ventura, Susana; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Material 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.
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    Poiesis or semiosis in architectural design practice
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Verbruggen, Sven; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    We 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.
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    The relational space: designing new urban hinges in suspended edge places
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Aquilar, Giorgia; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The 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.
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    Research and practice: full-size practical constructions for the development of innovative lithic prototypes
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Fallacara, Giuseppe; Calabria, Claudia; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The construction of full scale architectural elements has the double purpose of experimental control for researchers and teaching resource for students. In the first case model allows to make an experimental verification, creating a reference point to confirm or refute the starting hypothesis. The second function makes possible to stimulate students’ way of thinking, involving both abstract and concrete design aspects. This link between research, teaching and practice of construction is shown in various examples. This relation represents a necessary element in order to successfully proceed in the advance of architectural experimentation.
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    Research by Design : Research through Design
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Geissbühler, Dieter; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    This paper is to be read in context with the paper of Uli Herres (next paper in this journal), since the two explain the handling of specific forms of knowledge in the Master of Arts in Architecture course at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and in the related Research Group Material Structure Energy in Architecture.Research by Design is established in the curricula of teaching as well as in research ondifferent levels from regular teaching in architecture to the PhD program. The interaction is a two directional, meaning that teaching influences research as research influences teaching. The concept of combining theory and practice in the Master of Arts in Architecture course at the HSLU – T&A forms the basis of the concept of research by design as applied by the Research Group Material Structure Energy in Architecture.The Master course in architecture is directly linked to the work of the Research Group,a request that has been stated by the governmental guidelines for the introduction of a master program in architecture at the universities of applied sciences in Switzerland.The University of Applied sciences and Arts Lucerne took this opportunity to establish a model that introduces the interaction of design methods with scientific methods in three steps. The basis is set with a distinct content linked to the credo “building as system” of the Department Technique and Architecture. This meant a clear focusing on issues directly linked to the design of buildings
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    Research by design in architecture: an approach into the exploratory research phase
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Almeida, Maria Rita Pais Ramos Abreu de; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    In 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).
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    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, Jørgen; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Research 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.
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    Time in modernist architecture: an approach
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Jasper, Michael; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Two 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.