Abstract As a result of the Syrian conflict which started in 2011, middle and low-income groups in Syria have been facing difficulties in accessing energy, and left unable to cover their domestic energy expenses. How do these households respond to the low levels of comfort in their homes? In this in-situ study, I seek to investigate the intertwining discourses between domestic space, occupant behavior, and climate. Looking for evidence, I used the diary as a method to investigate the phenomenological experience of inhabiting a building. By collecting the diaries of family members in one flat in a typical domestic block in Damascus, I tell a collective story of the building through the residents. By selecting the stories of three rooms in the flat where the inhabitants felt uncomfortable in summer and winter, I present critical moments of discomfort in a visual essay. This research raises questions about the efficiency of the current model of affordable housing in Syria.
{"title":"DIARY. Coping with Discomfort – Use Patterns in a Syrian Home","authors":"Walaa Hajali","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0307","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As a result of the Syrian conflict which started in 2011, middle and low-income groups in Syria have been facing difficulties in accessing energy, and left unable to cover their domestic energy expenses. How do these households respond to the low levels of comfort in their homes? In this in-situ study, I seek to investigate the intertwining discourses between domestic space, occupant behavior, and climate. Looking for evidence, I used the diary as a method to investigate the phenomenological experience of inhabiting a building. By collecting the diaries of family members in one flat in a typical domestic block in Damascus, I tell a collective story of the building through the residents. By selecting the stories of three rooms in the flat where the inhabitants felt uncomfortable in summer and winter, I present critical moments of discomfort in a visual essay. This research raises questions about the efficiency of the current model of affordable housing in Syria.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115169094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article reflects upon the methods I used to investigate the relationship between the structure and the facade construction of industrial architecture. In Berlin in particular, iron and brick have been a constructive characteristic of the first third of the 20th century. The tool of technical drawing proved particularly effective in the preliminary investigation. After choosing to investigate buildings that still exist today by means of a critical redrawing, fragments were gradually dismantled and the construction hypotheses took on the character of a redesign of the elements. With the help of recent drawing technologies it was possible to reconstruct a »technical style«, obtained by comparing different fragments represented in the same way. Threedimensional modeling allowed the physical reconstruction of portions of the buildings digitally, brick by brick.
{"title":"BRICK BY BRICK REDRAWING. A Digital Approach to Dismantling and Reconstructing a Historical Building","authors":"D. Franco","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0304","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reflects upon the methods I used to investigate the relationship between the structure and the facade construction of industrial architecture. In Berlin in particular, iron and brick have been a constructive characteristic of the first third of the 20th century. The tool of technical drawing proved particularly effective in the preliminary investigation. After choosing to investigate buildings that still exist today by means of a critical redrawing, fragments were gradually dismantled and the construction hypotheses took on the character of a redesign of the elements. With the help of recent drawing technologies it was possible to reconstruct a »technical style«, obtained by comparing different fragments represented in the same way. Threedimensional modeling allowed the physical reconstruction of portions of the buildings digitally, brick by brick.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122628197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The late modernist architectural heritage of Central and Eastern Europe has undergone a peculiar transformation in the last couple of years. I consider this transformation from the perspective of the taming of ugly late modernist buildings into harmless miniatures as embedded in the grander phenomenon of architectural reconstructivism, concomitant with the demolition of late modernist building stock. This article aims to explore the current trend for reconstructivism in architecture by applying a two-fold conceptual framework, projection as a discursive method and Mark Cousins’s theory of ugliness to inspect the interwovenness of diverse socio-cultural factors by unraveling the manifold ways in which late modernist architectures are perceived with unease and discomfort in post-socialist contexts. These hyoptheses are tested in the case of the Electrical Power Distribution Station by architect Csaba Virág in Budapest.
{"title":"MINIATURE Ugly Buildings – Reflections on the Reconstructivist Trend in Central and Eastern Europe","authors":"Rachele Gyorffy","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0311","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The late modernist architectural heritage of Central and Eastern Europe has undergone a peculiar transformation in the last couple of years. I consider this transformation from the perspective of the taming of ugly late modernist buildings into harmless miniatures as embedded in the grander phenomenon of architectural reconstructivism, concomitant with the demolition of late modernist building stock. This article aims to explore the current trend for reconstructivism in architecture by applying a two-fold conceptual framework, projection as a discursive method and Mark Cousins’s theory of ugliness to inspect the interwovenness of diverse socio-cultural factors by unraveling the manifold ways in which late modernist architectures are perceived with unease and discomfort in post-socialist contexts. These hyoptheses are tested in the case of the Electrical Power Distribution Station by architect Csaba Virág in Budapest.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125736204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article addresses explorations of the digital world through the physical world by conducting experiments to reach prototypes that test the aspect of waste reduction and material technology within the design process. Choosing concrete as a material of investigation, and molding techniques as the starting point for explorations of the construction process, it introduces the concepts of prototypes and demonstrators in this practice-based research. The article presents a series of experiments testing material performance and construction techniques, and their impact on a digital model. The last section demonstrates the logic extracted from these experimental investigations to propose a 1:1 scale demonstrator that results from the prototypes and aims at reducing construction waste through investigating techniques to create architectural elements. This novel method promotes possibilities for design research and fabrication techniques beyond producing a product according to predetermined specifications.
{"title":"PROTOTYPE. Cast Concrete Strategies and Fabric Formwork for Construction Waste Reduction","authors":"Rasha Sukkarieh","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0314","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article addresses explorations of the digital world through the physical world by conducting experiments to reach prototypes that test the aspect of waste reduction and material technology within the design process. Choosing concrete as a material of investigation, and molding techniques as the starting point for explorations of the construction process, it introduces the concepts of prototypes and demonstrators in this practice-based research. The article presents a series of experiments testing material performance and construction techniques, and their impact on a digital model. The last section demonstrates the logic extracted from these experimental investigations to propose a 1:1 scale demonstrator that results from the prototypes and aims at reducing construction waste through investigating techniques to create architectural elements. This novel method promotes possibilities for design research and fabrication techniques beyond producing a product according to predetermined specifications.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126049639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Species of Theses and Other Pieces","authors":"M. Schalk, T. Lange, A. Putz, E. Markus","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128008039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The impact of climate change on cities is multifold and critical; one of them is flooding. The aim and objective of this article is to speculate how the needs of flooded cities are addressed using the method of speculative design. This technique involves various actors, disciplines, local, and international participation in brainstorming and generating scenarios, discussion, and reflection. It is practiced through workshops, competitions, and exhibitions. This article showcases the speculative design practice of the non-governmental organization (NGO), Thinking Hand, and Ketham’s Atelier Architects; which takes a bottom-up and collective approach in Hyderabad, in India. Their work attempts to bring different concerned groups into a conversation about climate change and flooding, some of which are not often included in urban decision-making processes. Owing to their greater responsibilities and participation, involving all stakeholders is significant in order to rethink policies for climate responsive architecture and urbanism.
{"title":"SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPS. Building Bridges for Flooding Cities","authors":"Santosh Kumar Ketham","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0319","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The impact of climate change on cities is multifold and critical; one of them is flooding. The aim and objective of this article is to speculate how the needs of flooded cities are addressed using the method of speculative design. This technique involves various actors, disciplines, local, and international participation in brainstorming and generating scenarios, discussion, and reflection. It is practiced through workshops, competitions, and exhibitions. This article showcases the speculative design practice of the non-governmental organization (NGO), Thinking Hand, and Ketham’s Atelier Architects; which takes a bottom-up and collective approach in Hyderabad, in India. Their work attempts to bring different concerned groups into a conversation about climate change and flooding, some of which are not often included in urban decision-making processes. Owing to their greater responsibilities and participation, involving all stakeholders is significant in order to rethink policies for climate responsive architecture and urbanism.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"129 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130087405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article is based on a 2016 talk I gave to a drawing research group led by Lesley McFadyen, Huda Tayob and Sophie Read. In it I look back at my PhD research completed in 2013, with a view to trying to disentangle my complicated relationship with drawing as a practice of architectural research. Working through what drawing might and might not be, I propose that, hand in hand with writing, writing-drawing forms an entangled mode of doing architectural history and theory that draws out something more, or other, than each can do alone.* The mode of writing-drawing is particularly developed in the context of historical research on a building where archival material on the architect’s intent, or evidence of the uses of the building once it was built, are missing. I argue two things: firstly, that the building itself can be read as an original archive, as a series of Lacanian part-objects; and that secondly, the writing-drawing research practice creates a further archive, a »living archive« that can be contributed to over time.† The article reflects on the roles of writing and drawing in the PhD whilst incorporating thinking developed in my recent research, chiefly drawn from ethnography, sociology, literary studies, and situated feminist and autotheory writing.
{"title":"WRITING-DRAWING An Entangled Archival Practice","authors":"E. Cheatle","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0323","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is based on a 2016 talk I gave to a drawing research group led by Lesley McFadyen, Huda Tayob and Sophie Read. In it I look back at my PhD research completed in 2013, with a view to trying to disentangle my complicated relationship with drawing as a practice of architectural research. Working through what drawing might and might not be, I propose that, hand in hand with writing, writing-drawing forms an entangled mode of doing architectural history and theory that draws out something more, or other, than each can do alone.* The mode of writing-drawing is particularly developed in the context of historical research on a building where archival material on the architect’s intent, or evidence of the uses of the building once it was built, are missing. I argue two things: firstly, that the building itself can be read as an original archive, as a series of Lacanian part-objects; and that secondly, the writing-drawing research practice creates a further archive, a »living archive« that can be contributed to over time.† The article reflects on the roles of writing and drawing in the PhD whilst incorporating thinking developed in my recent research, chiefly drawn from ethnography, sociology, literary studies, and situated feminist and autotheory writing.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129699362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Expanding ideas that I previously explored in » Design Research: The Next 500 Years« (Hill 2022), this article considers the contributions to temporal understanding of three analogies: architecture as a time machine, as a history, and as a fiction. Assembled from materials of all ages: from the newly formed, to those centuries or millions of years old, and incorporating varied rates of transformation and decay, a building is a time machine, transporting us to many times separately or simultaneously. Like a history, a design is a reinterpretation of the past in the present. Equally, a design is equivalent to a fiction, freely moving backward and forward in time and between types of time. In conclusion, I emphasize temporal understanding as a means by which to learn from the past, reassess the present, and speculate on future models of practice and discourse.
{"title":"RESEARCH BY DESIGN. Architecture is a Time Machine","authors":"Jonathan Hill","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0316","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Expanding ideas that I previously explored in » Design Research: The Next 500 Years« (Hill 2022), this article considers the contributions to temporal understanding of three analogies: architecture as a time machine, as a history, and as a fiction. Assembled from materials of all ages: from the newly formed, to those centuries or millions of years old, and incorporating varied rates of transformation and decay, a building is a time machine, transporting us to many times separately or simultaneously. Like a history, a design is a reinterpretation of the past in the present. Equally, a design is equivalent to a fiction, freely moving backward and forward in time and between types of time. In conclusion, I emphasize temporal understanding as a means by which to learn from the past, reassess the present, and speculate on future models of practice and discourse.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129189033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article draws on my ongoing doctoral research on stone and its renewed use as a self-supporting or load-bearing material in architecture today. To complement the existing literature on the subject, which is overwhelmingly quantitative in nature, it discusses the potential, as well as some of the difficulties, of the ethnographic approach I have adopted instead. Focusing on my fieldwork around the construction of a collective housing project in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland, one of the case studies in my thesis, it explores the challenges that working with this geo-sourced material poses for the professional practice of actors involved in its production. By taking into account the perspectives of multiple actors across multiple sites, including the stone as found, it aims to contribute to a broader understanding of what its structural use does, and could, imply for architecture.
{"title":"ETHNOGRAPHY OF STONE. Gathering – Layering – Cementing","authors":"N. Petkova","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0308","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article draws on my ongoing doctoral research on stone and its renewed use as a self-supporting or load-bearing material in architecture today. To complement the existing literature on the subject, which is overwhelmingly quantitative in nature, it discusses the potential, as well as some of the difficulties, of the ethnographic approach I have adopted instead. Focusing on my fieldwork around the construction of a collective housing project in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland, one of the case studies in my thesis, it explores the challenges that working with this geo-sourced material poses for the professional practice of actors involved in its production. By taking into account the perspectives of multiple actors across multiple sites, including the stone as found, it aims to contribute to a broader understanding of what its structural use does, and could, imply for architecture.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122555414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article explores a pedagogical approach of using sculptural artifacts as a practical tool to explore the ineffable but powerfully evocative atmospheres found within sacral architectures. However affective these spatial experiences may seem; in architectural pedagogy we struggle to speak of their nature and nuance, since they resist the mediums through which architectural discourse typically circulates. The making of sculptural forms allows undergraduate students to gesture to aspects of the atmosphere. An extended body schema established by the making process facilitates an embodied understanding of the atmospheric qualities. Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) provides a useful theoretical underpinning as a way to understand the students′ interactions, relationships between the sculptural artifacts, the processes of making and the atmospheres created. Through these processes, students become aware of, feel, engage, articulate and express the nuances and qualities of sacral architectural atmospheres.
{"title":"SCULPTURAL ARTIFACT. A Gestural Reading of the Atmospheres of Sacral Space","authors":"Dirk Bahmann","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0318","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores a pedagogical approach of using sculptural artifacts as a practical tool to explore the ineffable but powerfully evocative atmospheres found within sacral architectures. However affective these spatial experiences may seem; in architectural pedagogy we struggle to speak of their nature and nuance, since they resist the mediums through which architectural discourse typically circulates. The making of sculptural forms allows undergraduate students to gesture to aspects of the atmosphere. An extended body schema established by the making process facilitates an embodied understanding of the atmospheric qualities. Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) provides a useful theoretical underpinning as a way to understand the students′ interactions, relationships between the sculptural artifacts, the processes of making and the atmospheres created. Through these processes, students become aware of, feel, engage, articulate and express the nuances and qualities of sacral architectural atmospheres.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117130974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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