“A Building that Recalls” is a report that offers up the provocation that figures of housing are prevalent throughout histories of rhetorics connected to memory, and are of great ethical significance. One can turn to three key examples to demonstrate this thesis: Martin Heidegger’s Black Forest “Hut,” Michel Foucault’s “Panopticon,” and Lebbeus Woods’ “Scar” and “Scab” architectural designs. Heidegger’s hut reminds its viewers that a place of dwelling can serve both as a lesson in the dangers of nationalist memory-politics, and simultaneously as a model for overcoming fascism in oneself. Foucault’s Panopticon model reveals that the rooting out and “forgetting” of burned in social norms is difficult because subjectivity is a social fabrication. Finally, Lebbeus Wood’s “Scar” and “Scab” designs (accompanied with commentary by Victor Vitanza) show how an affirmative forgetting is possible in the wake of tyranny and trauma. / text

To incorporate bioremedial functions into the performance of buildings and to balance generative architecture's dominant focus on computational programming and digital fabrication, this thesis first hybridizes theories of autopoiesis into extended cognition in order to research biological domains that include synthetic biology and biocomputation. Under the rubric of living technology I survey multidisciplinary fields to gather perspective for student design of bioremedial and/or metabolic components in generative architecture where generative not only denotes the use of computation but also includes biochemical, biomechanical, and metabolic functions. I trace computation and digital simulations back to Alan Turing's early 1950s Morphogenetic drawings, reaction-diffusion algorithms, and pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) in order to establish generative architecture's point of origin. I ask provocatively: Can buildings think? as a question echoing Turing's own "Can machines think?" Thereafter, I anticipate not only future bioperformative materials but also theories capable of underpinning strains of metabolic intelligences made possible via AI, synthetic biology, and living technology. I do not imply that metabolic architectural intelligence will be like human cognition. I suggest, rather, that new research and pedagogies involving the intelligence of bacteria, plants, synthetic biology, and algorithms define approaches that generative architecture should take in order to source new forms of autonomous life that will be deployable as corrective environmental interfaces. I call the research protocol autopoietic-extended design, theorizing it as an operating system (OS), a research methodology, and an app schematic for design studios and distance learning that makes use of in-field, e-, and m-learning technologies. A quest of this complexity requires scaffolding for coordinating theory-driven teaching with practice-oriented learning. Accordingly, I fuse Maturana and Varela's biological autopoiesis and its definitions of minimal biological life with Andy Clark's hypothesis of extended cognition and its cognition-to-environment linkages. I articulate a generative design strategy and student research method explained via architectural history interpreted from Louis Sullivan's 1924 pedagogical drawing system, Le Corbusier's Modernist pronouncements, and Greg Lynn's Animate Form. Thus, autopoietic-extended design organizes thinking about the generation of ideas for design prior to computational production and fabrication, necessitating a fresh relationship between nature/science/technology and design cognition. To systematize such a program requires the avoidance of simple binaries (mind/body, mind/nature) as well as the stationing of tool making, technology, and architecture within the ream of nature. Hence, I argue, in relation to extended phenotypes, plant-neurobiology, and recent genetic research: < Architecture = Nature > Consequently, autopoietic-extended design advances design protocols grounded in morphology, anatomy, cognition, biology, and technology in order to appropriate metabolic and intelligent properties for sensory/response duty in buildings. At m-learning levels smartphones, social media, and design apps source data from nature for students to mediate on-site research by extending 3D pedagogical reach into new university design programs. I intend the creation of a dialectical investigation of animal/human architecture and computational history augmented by theory relevant to current algorithmic design and fablab production. The autopoietic-extended design dialectic sets out ways to articulate opposition/differences outside the Cartesian either/or philosophy in order to prototype metabolic architecture, while dialectically maintaining: Buildings can think.

Orientador: Daniel de Carvalho Moreira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T21:28:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Beltramin_RenataMariaGeraldini_M.pdf: 8718202 bytes, checksum: 2f67e5b82f2ffeb0f84cf0d3e49df308 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa investiga a estrutura e as características da análise em arquitetura ¿ os conceitos e definições acerca da análise enquanto processo e a presença do método enquanto sistematizador e organizador. Desde a segunda metade do século XX até os dias atuais, diversos teóricos de arquitetura e urbanismo versam sobre a análise de projetos e obras. Entretanto, alguns autores vão além, propondo modelos de análise de projetos e obras de arquitetura: Roger Clark e Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker e Simon Unwin se destacam pela proposição de modelos de análise de arquitetura amplamente fundamentados e desenvolvidos. Portanto, o objetivo deste trabalho foi a caracterização, a classificação e a comparação dos modelos e métodos de análise de projetos propostos por Roger Clark e Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker e Simon Unwin. O primeiro passo da pesquisa consistiu o levantamento e a leitura de obras sobre procedimentos de análise, metodologias e modelos de análise em arquitetura, processo de projeto e teoria da arquitetura. A etapa em questão teve como foco o entendimento do exercício da análise e dos modelos de análise de Roger Clark e Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker e Simon Unwin. Na segunda etapa da pesquisa, foi estruturado um procedimento de comparação dos quatro modelos estudados. Para isso, a etapa em questão abrangeu a classificação e a caracterização dos modelos de análise conforme seus critérios de construção e seu caráter processual e a construção do procedimento de comparação de modelos de análise a partir da elaboração de um fluxograma de ações. Por fim, na terceira etapa da pesquisa foram selecionadas quatro obras de arquitetura presentes em estudos de caso realizados por Clark/ Pause, Ching, Baker e Unwin, as quais foram submetidas ao procedimento de comparação de modo que a pesquisa pudesse revelar, como resultados, a caracterização dos quatro modelos estudados enquanto meios de ampliação do olhar sobre a arquitetura e a verificação da viabilidade do procedimento proposto enquanto ferramenta de comparação e avaliação / Abstract: This research investigates the structure and the characteristics of analysis in architecture ¿ the concepts and definitions about the analysis in architecture as a process and the presence of the method while systematizer and organizer. Since the second half of the twentieth century to the present day, many theorists of architecture and urbanism deal with the analysis of projects and works. However, some authors go further by proposing models for the analysis of projects and works of architecture: Roger Clark and Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker and Simon Unwin stand out because of the proposition of widely founded and developed architecture analysis models. Therefore, the aim of this work was the characterization, classification and comparison of the design analysis models and methods proposed by Roger Clark and Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker and Simon Unwin. The first step of the research was a survey and reading of works about analysis procedures, architectural analysis methodologies and models, design process and theory of architecture. This step had great focus on understanding the analysis exercise and the analysis models of Roger Clark and Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker and Simon Unwin. In the research¿s second stage, a comparison procedure to the four models was structured. Thereunto, this stage covered the classification and characterization of the analysis models as their construction criteria and their procedural character and the construction of an analysis models comparison procedure from the preparation of a flowchart of actions. Lastly, in the third stage of the rsearch four works of architecture present in case studies realized by Clark / Pause, Ching, Baker and Unwin have been selected, which were submitted to the comparison procedure so that the research could reveal, as results, the characterization of the four studied models as a means of broadening the perspective on architecture and the verification on the viability of the proposed procedure as a comparison and evaluation tool / Mestrado / Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade / Mestra em Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade

Trata-se de trabalho realizado por uma arquiteta e professora de projeto que pretende mostrar a importância da observação direta das poéticas dos arquitetos, tanto para a produção da arquitetura quanto para sua teoria e seu ensino. Ele se baseia na idéia de uma separação entre os campos da história, da crítica e da teoria da arquitetura, esta não tendo um caráter valorativo, mas sendo vista como um catalisador da produção. Nessa posição de frente, a teoria necessariamente passa a necessitar das poéticas dos próprios arquitetos o lugar onde a invenção ocorre. A valorização das poéticas também se explica pela crise por que passa o pensamento racionalista em todas as disciplinas, a qual permite o aparecimento do pluralismo de idéias e o afrouxamento da dicotomia subjetividade/objetividade. Essas poéticas, embora revelem idéias e conceitos particulares, forjam permanentemente uma teoria mais geral, através do diálogo com outras poéticas, a crítica e a história. Para isso ela analisou seus próprios projetos realizados entre 1970 e 1990 e entrevistas e projetos de outros arquitetos publicados de 1990 até o momento. / This is a work realized by a woman architect and project teacher that demands to show the importance of direct observation of architects poetics, for the architectural production as much as for theory and teaching. Its based on the idea of a separation between the areas of history, criticism and architecture theory, this one with no valorizing character, but considered as a production catalyser. In this front, theory necessarily needs poetics of its own architects the place where invention occurs. Poetics valoriazation also explains by crisis that attains rationalistic thought in all points os view, as well as allows the appearing of ideas pluralism and slackening of dycotomy subjectivity/objectivity. This poetics although reveals particular ideas and concepts, permanently forges a more general theory by the dialog among other poetics, criticism and theory. On the strenght of it, she analyzed her own projetcs, realized between 1970 and 1990, teoria da interviews and projects of other architects, published from 1970 up till now.

Trata-se de trabalho realizado por uma arquiteta e professora de projeto que pretende mostrar a importância da observação direta das poéticas dos arquitetos, tanto para a produção da arquitetura quanto para sua teoria e seu ensino. Ele se baseia na idéia de uma separação entre os campos da história, da crítica e da teoria da arquitetura, esta não tendo um caráter valorativo, mas sendo vista como um catalisador da produção. Nessa posição de frente, a teoria necessariamente passa a necessitar das poéticas dos próprios arquitetos o lugar onde a invenção ocorre. A valorização das poéticas também se explica pela crise por que passa o pensamento racionalista em todas as disciplinas, a qual permite o aparecimento do pluralismo de idéias e o afrouxamento da dicotomia subjetividade/objetividade. Essas poéticas, embora revelem idéias e conceitos particulares, forjam permanentemente uma teoria mais geral, através do diálogo com outras poéticas, a crítica e a história. Para isso ela analisou seus próprios projetos realizados entre 1970 e 1990 e entrevistas e projetos de outros arquitetos publicados de 1990 até o momento. / This is a work realized by a woman architect and project teacher that demands to show the importance of direct observation of architects poetics, for the architectural production as much as for theory and teaching. Its based on the idea of a separation between the areas of history, criticism and architecture theory, this one with no valorizing character, but considered as a production catalyser. In this front, theory necessarily needs poetics of its own architects the place where invention occurs. Poetics valoriazation also explains by crisis that attains rationalistic thought in all points os view, as well as allows the appearing of ideas pluralism and slackening of dycotomy subjectivity/objectivity. This poetics although reveals particular ideas and concepts, permanently forges a more general theory by the dialog among other poetics, criticism and theory. On the strenght of it, she analyzed her own projetcs, realized between 1970 and 1990, teoria da interviews and projects of other architects, published from 1970 up till now.

Oil is a finite resource; This much has been established as fact and is commonly agreed upon. We will, some day, find our supplies depleted. The question that remains hotly debated, however, is when this will happen and what impacts it will have on our modern lives. Estimates and forecasts abound, but still no one can answer these questions definitively. As fossil fuels, the energy behind virtually every aspect of our lives, become scarce, our patterns of growth will face a reckoning. We will be forced to adapt and adjust; either shifting our energy demand to more renewable sources, or reducing it by significant amounts. Although there are a plethora of what-if scenarios when predicting the effects of an end to oil, it’s easy to recognize that the peak oil crisis will significantly impact our lives. It will change how we live them and, by extension, where and how we construct our buildings. So what does this mean for buildings - one of the country’s largest consumers of energy? This thesis proposes that a theory of adaptability, when applied properly to the design and construction process, can begin to equip our building to handle the range of possible outcomes that an energy-poor future poses. This thesis also aims to address, in the broadest of terms, how our current approach to design could lead to significant issues in a post-oil, energy hungry world. It does so by encouraging a more holistic approach to problem solving and building design, while outlining how the values of cost efficiency and speed have polarized global construction techniques.

This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison’s film-studio Black Maria, and the plotless productions of early cinematography, to juxtapose concepts of plot and spatiality in a study of the production and consumption of pre-digital virtual spaces. Plot here relates therefore both to narrative sequentiality and spatial organisation – from "storyline" to "ground plan". The "plotless" narrative structure of Huysmans, Goncourt and de Maistre focuses on the interaction between man – the "writerin- residence" – and his domestic interior, functioning as an excitant or stimulant for the production of both material and imagined spaces. The media culture of late 19th century society saw the first significant attempts at moving image technology and its related spatialities – the Black Maria, the kinetoscope, the kinetograph, and the films produced by these, which had yet to find a narrative form. The architecture of the plotless novels and the proto-cinematic experiments of the late 19th century modulate between physical reality and fiction. They are ripe in their descriptive narrativity, expanding in the imagination of the consumer. Stephenson’s imaginative transposition of book media into a "Primer" – a new form of narrative media that develops its narrative content directly from the environmental context of its reader – concludes the discussion of the thesis, highlighting interrelations between fictive and real space, influencing both writer and reader. The refusal of narrative plot deprives the reader of causality, but emphasises the fictitious spatial creation in which the reader becomes immersed. These spaces, by virtue of their disengagement from plot, allow us to revisit the possibilities of virtual space without common preconceptions concerning the creation or experience of digital mediating technology.

<p>This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison’s film-studio Black Maria, and the plotless productions of early cinematography, to juxtapose concepts of plot and spatiality in a study of the production and consumption of pre-digital virtual spaces. Plot here relates therefore both to narrative sequentiality and spatial organisation – from "storyline" to "ground plan". The "plotless" narrative structure of Huysmans, Goncourt and de Maistre focuses on the interaction between man – the "writerin- residence" – and his domestic interior, functioning as an excitant or stimulant for the production of both material and imagined spaces. The media culture of late 19th century society saw the first significant attempts at moving image technology and its related spatialities – the Black Maria, the kinetoscope, the kinetograph, and the films produced by these, which had yet to find a narrative form. The architecture of the plotless novels and the proto-cinematic experiments of the late 19th century modulate between physical reality and fiction. They are ripe in their descriptive narrativity, expanding in the imagination of the consumer. Stephenson’s imaginative transposition of book media into a "Primer" – a new form of narrative media that develops its narrative content directly from the environmental context of its reader – concludes the discussion of the thesis, highlighting interrelations between fictive and real space, influencing both writer and reader. The refusal of narrative plot deprives the reader of causality, but emphasises the fictitious spatial creation in which the reader becomes immersed. These spaces, by virtue of their disengagement from plot, allow us to revisit the possibilities of virtual space without common preconceptions concerning the creation or experience of digital mediating technology.</p>

Orientador: Daniel de Carvalho Moreira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T02:01:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rocha_AnaPaulaSilva_M.pdf: 56121937 bytes, checksum: 29584f23d324ae13a5a267ea82b9ab23 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Este trabalho investiga o impacto das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) na Arquitetura em si, e nos seus diálogos com outras áreas de conhecimento. A questão básica que orienta esta dissertação é a análise de como as transformações tecnológicas e a transdisciplinaridade afetam as mudanças de paradigma na disciplina arquitetônica. Trata-se de um estudo de caso que procura identificar quais são as transformações impostas pela inserção dos meios digitais no cotidiano humano, suas implicações no pensamento, gênese e produção arquitetônica contemporânea e, finalmente, estudar projetos que abordem essas reflexões. O principal objetivo da pesquisa é investigar como a concepção de projetos arquitetônicos pode ser ampliada para que corresponda à complexidade intrínseca aos novos modos de ser e estar inerentes à sociedade pós-industrial do século XXI. Dentro desse contexto, numa atmosfera em que os suportes digitais estão, cada vez mais, vinculados à existência humana, procura-se entender as inter-relações entre concreto e virtual na configuração de uma nova espacialidade. Apresenta-se então uma reflexão a partir de alguns projetos contemporâneos selecionados ¿ protótipos e experimentos que retomam questões advindas do universo conceitual da virtualidade ¿ cujo desenho e/ou conceito são indissociáveis de ambientes virtuais, sendo esses projetos pensados como espacialidades materializáveis ou não. Como método de análise os projetos selecionados serão estudados a partir de seis critérios: programa, sítio de implantação, conceito e partido, resposta formal, interação com o ambiente externo e interação com o usuário. A intenção é analisar como as possibilidades espaciais dos ambientes virtuais e concretos vêm nutrindo-se mutuamente e as formas de diálogo entre imaterialidade e materialidade / Abstract: This work investigates the impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Architecture itself as well as in its dialogues with others areas of knowledge. The basic question which orients this dissertation is the analysis of how the technological transformations and the transdisciplinarity have affected the paradigm changes in the architectural discipline. This is a case study that seeks to identify which are the transformations imposed by the insertion of digital means in human beings¿ daily lives, also its implications in contemporary architectural thought, genesis and production. Finally, it intends to study projects that address such reflections. The research¿s main goal is to investigate how the conception of architectural projects may be amplified in order to correspond to the intrinsic complexity of the new modes of being that are inherent to the post-industrial society of the 21st century. In this context ¿ in an atmosphere in which more and more the digital supports are linked to the human existence ¿ the intention is to understand the interrelationships between concrete and virtual in the configuration of a new spatiality. Thus, the work presents a reflection that stems from a few selected contemporary projects ¿ prototypes and experiments which retrieve questions that derive from the conceptual universe of virtuality ¿ whose drawing and/or concept are inseparable from virtual environments, considering these projects as spatialities which are possible or not to materialize. As a methodology of analysis, the selected projects will be studied according to six criteria: program, implementation site, architectural concept, formal response, interaction with the external environment and interaction with the user. The intention is analyzing how the spatial possibilities of the virtual and concrete environments have been mutually feeding each other, also studying the forms of dialogue between immateriality and materiality / Mestrado / Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade / Mestra em Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade

For ten thousand years people have used earthen building material in their homes and in just the last hundred years advanced society has gradually turned away from it due to the development of modern technology. Earth is currently of little use as a building material, but it is gradually increasing with the importance of sustainability. Earth has its place in contemporary modern architecture and this is what this work tries to point out. The research is based on the assumption that each building material gravitates with its properties, composition and also the knowledge of the builder to create a certain space. Different building materials define different spaces, different construction uses and different details. This research defined the network of knowledge with the central themes of the essence of earthen architecture by the method of grounded theory and subsequently applied the theory in the design of a model case. The proposed small structure represents an ideal rendering of the space from a single material on the basis of acquired and known information about this material. It has massive earthen walls, which man created himself and it provides him the shelter. The shelter rises smoothly from the ground, its main source, it has soft round features, which were created by the touch of human hands, and when it expires, it naturally merges with the ground again.